VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Today I wen to IKEA with my company’s distributors to buy decorations to decorate their showroom. We bought 2 furnitures and a lot of fake flowers and glass vase. I noticed IKEA is really good at the product packaging. We bought a children’s rocking chair and a small table, and when we got them from the furniture extraction area I found we looked like buy two pictures. I know this is flat packaging and this way means lower shipping costs for IKEA. When we got to the showroom, the next thing was to assemble the furnitures. I assembled the chair and a clerk assembled the table. It was easy to assemble the table and this just took her 2 minutes. The chair was a little complicated but according to the installation instruction it just took me several minutes. I have heard some couples bought IKEA furnitures when they installed them they usually got argue and fight, and I really don’t understand this.

Today I went to IKEA with my company’s distributors to buy decorations to decorate their showroom. We bought 2 pieces of furniture and a lot of fake flowers and glass vases. I noticed IKEA is really good at the product packaging. We bought a children’s rocking chair and a small table, and when we got them from the furniture extraction area I found we looked like we had bought two pictures. I know this is flat packaging and this way means lower shipping costs for IKEA. When we got to the showroom, the next thing was to assemble the furniture. I assembled the chair and a clerk assembled the table. It was easy to assemble the table and this just took her 2 minutes. The chair was a little complicated but I put it together according to the assembly instructions and it just took me several minutes. I have heard that some couples bought IKEA furniture and when they installed them they usually argued and fought, and I really don’t understand this.

Vocabulary

assemble – put together – chairs / bookcases …

install – software / bath / faucet / shower – anything that goes “in”

screwed the screws in by hand / screwed the legs on by hand

bolt – a big screw

screwdriver – luo si dao

manual – chang pin shuo ming shu

contagious – you give your sickness / yawn to others
eg. yawning is very contagious

sneeze 
eg. you have mum’s sneeze

roast 
eg. freshly roasted pistachio nuts 

saffron

competition – bi sai

protein – dan bai zhi

carbs / carbohydrates – tan shui

when did she begin to do this / begin doing this?

licence – zheng shu

take over your life
eg. I think if you have a baby it will take over your life