VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

We have the flight this Monday but we don’t know if we can go all home. -> we are not sure if we will be able to go all the way back home /… if we can go home directly
Maybe we need to go to a hotel. / We may need to quarantine in a hotel again.

I don’t know for how Long this situation -> I don’t know how long it will last

The virus will be increased -> the virus will increase / the virus will spread (even more)

It’s impossible maybe they need to live with the virus.

SH has a lot of people. The population is too big so to have closed at home is impossible for long Time. -> having to stay in lockdown at home / being stuck at home / being locked at home is impossible / The population is too big, to have everyone locked at home is impossible

One month maybe -> It may last one month / maybe it will last one full month

A lot of people who live there are from another city so many of them don’t have a kitchen, they don’t cook at home. Most of them buy food everyday and now they have a lot of problems.

Now they regret being in SH.

Some people say they tried 

Now my husband talked with his boss about his work. He wants to change the city for work.
He doesn’t want to work here with this situation.

It is totally different, we don’t have a child. For this situation it is too hard right now to visit our family 3 times a year. / we feel it is not worth staying in Shanghai because it is too hard to visit our family.

 We want go to another city closer to Spain or from which it is easier to fly to Spain.

In the next 3 years the situation will stay the same -> the situation will last 3 more years

A lot of people think the same.
They are too tired. Now they hate China.

When you have a good job, they let you do your work you feel very good. / if you have a good job and things go smoothly you feel great
But when they put a lot of obstacles and you can’t work very well you feel very bad/ you don’t feel motivated and you don’t do your job very well. / you won’t perform well / you won’t be efficient / you will not be efficient.

More than 3 years ago / before 2020 you could travel or have a trip. 

During the last 2 years you couldn’t travel or have a trip ‘

They let you live, you respect the rules. Now you can’t do anything.

Some of them back to their country. Others go to another city in their country and others to another country.

Among my Mexican friends, 7 families went back to Mexico. Another went to to Europe : Germany or Switzerland.
And the Spanish go to Spain.

The government always puts the situation too bad -> The government makes things look worse than what they really are

If the country don’t have a lot of problems they invent problems.
Always when there is any situation in the world they blame it for their problems

If the situation does not affect this country they show you it affects it / they pretend it affects it
Maybe it doesn’t affect food but they increase the price because of the war.

Columbia is a potato producer  / we produce potatoes and now in some cities they increased the price a lot.
We produce them but the price still increases.

Vocabulary

To blame (v) saying X is responsible / something is X’s fault
The government blames the war in Ukraine for the increase in prices

To backfire (v) To do something which ends up create problems to yourself
Tom tried to blame his boss for the failure of the project but it backfired and he lost his job.

Have a taste of one’s own medicine : usually when you hurt others but things backfire and you hurt yourself
China is having a taste of its own medicine because now Chinese people complain that it is hard to go back to China.

Worth (v) 

it’s worth it / it not worth it 

To regret (v) wish things happened different
I regret leaving China because now it is hard to go back 

Migrant worker (n) someone who moves to another city for work (usually for more basic jobs) 

Many migrant workers work in construction

To last (v) to express duration / how long something will be / endure / hold on/ survive
The lock down will last for 5 days
I have enough food to last 2 weeks
Our quarantine will last 5 days in Xiamen.
The lock down in SH will last until the end of this month.

Pronunciation

Potato