VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Once upon a time, there were two thieves who were so brilliant that they committed lots of renowned crimes, such as robbing the safest bank in the world, stealing the richest man’s house, etc. When they got old, they decided to do one big crime the last time and spent the rest of their lives in peace. They compiled a list of the possible crimes worth doing and chose one from it, stealing the crown embedded with the biggest diamond which belonged to the England duchess. The crown would be transferred to a museum for a short-term exhibit, and it was the best chance for them to steal it on the way. After intercepting the message of the police and knowing the route of the transfer, they used their own encryption to write the plan so that nobody would figure out what they would do and complied with the plan strictly. At last, their plan came to fruition, when the police tried to round up them in the tunnel where the van carrying the crown was trapped, only to found the empty van and the sedated guards lying on the ground.
Once upon a time, there were two thieves who were so brilliant that they were infamous for committing lots of high profile crimes, such as robbing the safest bank in the world, stealing the richest man’s house, etc. When they got old, they decided to do one big crime the last time and spent the rest of their lives in peace. They compiled a list of the possible crimes worth doing and chose one from it, stealing the crown embedded with the biggest diamond which belonged to the England duchess. The crown was going to be transferred to a museum for a short-term exhibit, and the best chance for them to steal it was on route / and while it was on route, it would be vulnerable, therefore being the best opportunity they would have to steal it. After intercepting messages from the police and knowing the route of the transfer, they used their own encryption to make / create / put together the plan so that nobody would figure out what they would do and strictly complied with the plan. At last, their plan came to fruition, when the police tried to round up them in the tunnel where the van carrying the crown was trapped, only to find the empty van and / with the sedated guards lying on the ground.

Vocabulary

popped into my head / came to me

concede – to reluctantly accept
eg. I concede that your Chinese is better than mine… 🙁

tune in – to watch a program on tv / radio

tune out – to ignore
eg. when I have class I try to tune out the background noise

deviant / deviate 
eg. Jesse sometimes deviates from the topic which is annoying
eg2. He’s a deviant and doesn’t follow the rules

concrete (100%)
eg. we don’t have anything concrete at the moment but we’ll let you know when we do .

i hope it doesn’t come to that = I hope that (extreme thing) doesn’t happen

patronise / condescend – talk down to sb, like they’re not as smart as you or not capable of understanding

dwell – to focus for too long
eg. don’t dwell on sadness, try to move on quickly

Grammar

was going to be – future of past

Yesterday I wanted to come to work at 11am. I would have come to work if it didn’t rain.
I would buy a house if I had enough money.
Yesterday would have been good if it didn’t rain.

Yesterday my boss knew I was going to come to work at 11am.
Yesterday I was going to come to work at 11am.