VIP Class Notes (Mike)

Write a letter to the 30 year-old Yara, tell her your saving plans at the moment and how you wish to improve/implement?

Vocabulary

re ser ve – re ser va tion 

book (v) 预定

court (n) 体育场地

allow (v) 允许
You are not allowed to come here.

Unwisely

salary (n) 薪水

invest (v) 投资
I invested in myself a lot
I make investment in funds

stocks (n) 股票

funds (n) 基金

nutrition (n) 营养
My cats didn’t get good nutrition when they were little, so they were not well/properly developed.

costly (adj.) 耗钱的
Cat litter can be costly.

abandon (v) 
 I can’t abandon them

troublesome (adj.) 令人烦恼的，烦人的
One cat is costly, the other one is ~

account for 占据= take up 
Food takes up  10% of my salary

utility (n) 水电气费用

Pronunciation

course  课程
cousin (n) 表亲

time 

Grammar

Otherwise 否则,不然的话
Please leave our house, otherwise I will call the police!
We should cancel our flight now, otherwise we won’t get our refund.
We must walk faster, otherwise we will be late. 

spend 
Sb spend money ON sth
Sb spend time ON sth

cost
Sth cost sb money/time

We walked around after lunch

Because that place close to my home
Because that place is not far from where I live

This stadium does not allow us to cancel our reservation

it’s + difficult for me to book a court there

Otherwise, I will be wasting my money/my money will be wasted.

I often spend money on food and training courses and the training courses are expensive 

one is … , the other one …

I have 2 cats, one is male, the other one is female

Vets can be very expensive

Because of this thing,
Because of this

It’s useless to train him afterwards
It’s important to train him in advance/beforehand/in the beginning

When I get my salary, I should save a certain amount to my bank account, then I can spend the rest of my salary on food, rent, cat, courses, and other things I want. 

I should be careful with the rest, because each thing should have a certain percentage, for example, cat should account for no more than 5% of my monthly salary, rent should account for no more than 25% 

utility depends on how much you use, it changes depending on the season.