VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

She arrived in Sanya in about January and she was gonna leave around March.
She is still got the flight cancelled message. -> her flight was still cancelled. / she still received a cancellation message
She only just fly back to Xiamen and it is cancelled. -> She just wanted to fly back to Xiamen but it still got cancelled 

I would like to introduce my role as an interactive designer. / I want to introduce myself as an interactive designer.

I would like to introduce me -> to introduce myself

I am a role of resident -> I have the role of a resident.

The compound admin office uses different treatment to different group people. -> they treat people differently
It is totally unfair.

Both of us are a community / we belong to the same community.

Why they use a different way to treat people. / they treat people differently 

We maybe pay about 20k a month for the rent.
For the food and information support we only got government vegetables but the property owners they could get clubs and some premium beef.

I believe one day the kids from the owners will study abroad and at that time they will also be tenants. I hope at that time they don’t need to experience a situation like us now.

In WeChat groups.
This is a thing happened past 2 weeks ago -> it is something which happened in the past 2 weeks / 2 weeks ago.

This building has 4 apartment which tested positive.

Their decision made a pregnant lady get infected -> their decision put a pregnant lady at risk

She got in close contact with a positive case so it is a tragedy and she got a positive testing finally. / she was tested positive. . she was 8 months pregnant / the delivery was planned in a month / she was just one month away from delivering.

The floor president pushed people to go outside the building.

He said the secretary said our building is safe and it is good enough to go outside to do the test.

Although we debated the whole night about where to do the test finally people believed someone who is not a scientist.
They trusted a wrong information 

People must to learn the statistics -> people must learn statistics.

Vocabulary

Resilience (ability to bounce back / not give up)
People show a lot of resilience, they will rebuild no matter how many times it is destroyed.

Phobia (n) extreme fear
He has a phobia of spiders

Finland (n)
He travelled to Finland

Finnish (adj)
He is interested in the Finnish culture 

Position (n) official job title (1) or hierarchy level (2) / point of view (opinion) (3)
I was appointed to the position of marketing manager. (1)
I have a higher position than you, I am a manager and you are an executive.(2)
I understand your position but I cannot agree with you on that (3) 

Role (n) (function, importance) 作用 / (part in play, film) 角色
She has to fulfill her role as a mother.
Kris Wu will not have any role for a few years because he is in prison right now.

Certificate (n) proof of something
They made a mistake on the study certificate

Property owner / landlord (n)
He is the property owner

Tenant (n) someone renting a building
I am a tenant in this building 

Roller (n) shoes with wheels
His son asked for rollers for his birthday

Pronunciation

Abroad (outside of this country)
He will study abroad

Aboard (on board)
Welcome aboard flight MU1755 

Priority

Role
Rule
Roller

Grammar

To complain about something
Tom wanted to complain about the rent