VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

I have to write some reports.
Analyst reports for the global market.
It has a model and I just exchange some words.

read some books. It is about European medieval history.
It is an England dynasty

It is a book, I can understand and my boss likes history.

Actually I don’t like the US. I just don’t like it. The country is chaotic
My elder cousin lives in US California and her family always bring guns, they have to protect themselves.

My boss is part of the party and he always told me some social ideas.
he always talks about the party and XJP and he always says you have to follow XJP.
Maybe for his career.

Actually I like documentaries better than movies like the BBC documentaries.

About History and the hunt of treasures like the crusades they brought treasures from Jerusalem.

I believe in God.
In my country it is more traditions. My mother is a buddhist and she always go to the temple to give some money or things she believes the god like buddha

Most of them pray to God but others just go to church.
My mother puts statues of the gods. 2 status and put them at home and prays to them.
I don’t understand why she puts the statues at home and prays to them.

In university I had a foreign professor and he is a Christian and some history so I became Christian.
That is a little difficult because my mother always do some strange things at home. She always offers candy and incense in front of statues.

If you have a bible you can bring your bible to church.

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I had to write some reports. / today I wrote some reports
those reports make an analysis of the global market. / in those reports we analyze the global market.
There is a model and I just fill in some data.

This week end I read some books. It is about European medieval history.
It is an British dynasty.

It is a book, I can understand all of it and my boss likes History.

Actually I don’t like the US. I just don’t like it. The country is chaotic
My elder cousin lives in US California and her family always bring guns, they have to protect themselves.

he used to play/take guns to shoot the balloons

My boss is part of the party / is a member of the party and he always tell me / shares with me some socialist ideas.
he always talks about the party and XJP and he always says you have to follow XJP.
Maybe being a party member is beneficial for his career.

some classmates became party members, but it wasn’t for me.

Actually I like documentaries better than movies like the BBC documentaries.

I like documentaries about History and the hunt of treasures like during the crusades they brought back treasures from Jerusalem.

I believe in God.
In my country it is more traditional. My mother is a buddhist and she always go to the temple to give offerings to the gods she believes in

Most of them pray to God but others just go to church.
My mother puts 2 status of her gods at home and prays to them.
I don’t understand why she puts the statues at home and prays to them.

In university I had a foreign professor and he was Christian and told me about history so I became Christian / I converted.
That is a little difficult because my mother always do some strange things at home. She always offers candy and lights incense sticks  in front of statues.

If you have a bible you can bring your bible to church.
I don’t watch Chinese TV.
I always use the phone and iqiyi app and broadcast on TV  / and pair it with my TV

Speaking exercise

1: describe

I saw an old man , he is surgeon at work  / in the operation room
In the second scene he is at a bank and wants to maybe get a loan but the bank closes when it is his turn. He feels frustrated.
He then goes to a restaurant and the waiter brings him food and he feels disappointed because there is so little food.
He is at home and plays a board game with his grandchildren and wins.

all of this was not real but after he drinks Pepsi he feels fantastic and that feeling may be real.

2: what is the message?

It is a ad about the drink.
They tell you maybe the feeling is good.

3: opinion
I don’t like this commercial.
Coke increases your sugar level.

1: it start with Adam and Eve in Eden
Eve bites the apple and they realize they are naked / suddenly suffer from being naked.

A squirrel gives them an avocado.
it makes the world better and they all live naked in NYC.

I don’t like this commercial.

Vocabulary

play on words (n) a joke based on a word having 2 meanings or 2 words having a similar pronunciation
play on words are funny

avocado (n)鳄梨
avocados are good for health

board game (n) game you play on a table 棋盘游戏
I don’t like to play board games and wins.

commercial (n) video promoting a product or a company
When you watch a film on TV there are often breaks with commercials

ad (n) promotion of a product or company
We will run the ad to announce the new product

to pair (v) link with
I need to pair my bluetooth headphones with my phone

to fill in (v) to input information
The clerk gave me a document and asked me to fill in the blanks

incense stick (n)香
She lit an incense stick

chaos (n)
After the power cut the city went into chaos

chaotic (adj)
California is very chaotic

offering (n) something you give to the gods
My mother often brings offerings to the temple