VIP Class Notes (Raph)[W]

Vocabulary

Nationality (n): 1- the official right to belong to a particular country.
E.g.: She has British nationality.
E.g.: What nationality are you?
E.g.: There are people from several different nationalities in my class.

Community (n): 1- the people living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interests, social group, or nationality.
E.g.: He’s well known in the local community.
E.g.: There’s a large black/white/Jewish community living in this area.
E.g.: Her speech caused was very criticized among the gay community.

Scholarship (n): 1- an amount of money given by a school, college, university, or other organization to pay for the studies of a person with great ability but little money.
E.g.: He got/won a scholarship to Harvard.
E.g.: Paula went to the Royal College of Music on a scholarship.

Influence (v/n): 1- to affect or change how someone or something develops, behaves, or thinks.
E.g.: She’s very good at making friends and influencing people.
E.g.: He’s a bad/good influence on him.
E.g.: The architecture in this part of the country has been very influenced by Modernism (现代主义).

Empire (n): 1- 帝国

Bachelor’s degree (n): 1- 学士学位

Earache (n): 1- 耳朵痛

Original: 

I like buy cups when I go shopping, and I bought a lot of cups for every person in my family. I bought a red cup for my sister and a shape of hazelnut cup for my brother. I bought two cups for my parents when I traveled in Chiengmai.
I also like buy thermos, and I bought a brand ofSwell thermos, it’s a white steel thermos of 250ml, and it looks like a milk bottle. It has good keep warm function but it has a small mouth, so it’s hard to get cold especially when I on a train, because on the train they just have hot water.

Edited: 

I like buying cups when I go shopping, and I have bought a lot of them for every person in my family. I bought a red one for my sister and a hazelnut-shaped one for my brother. I also bought two cups for my parents when I traveled to Chiang Mai.
I also like buying thermoses, and I bought one from a brand called Swell. It’s a 250ml white steel thermos, and it looks like a milk bottle. It has a good heat retention / thermal insulation, but it has a small mouth, so it doesn’t cool down very fast, especially when I’m on a train and they just have hot water.

Pronunciation

Nationality: /ˌnæʃ.ənˈæl.ə.t̬i/

Community: /kəˈmjuː.nə.t̬i/

Abroad: /əˈbrɑːd/

Spain: /speɪn/

Hazelnut: /ˈheɪ.zəl.nʌt/

Thermos: /ˈθɝː.məs/

ml / Milliliter: /ˈmɪl·əˌli·t̬·ər/