VIP Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

I want to be an active teacher.

In the future my job can be replaced by A.I.

in recently i found out what I want to do

the people who were doing this work looked bored

it’s not challenging

they work in a firm

I visited / I went to see


elf – a fictional person, who is very tall, thin, and has long hair and pointy ears

dwarf – 1. a fictional shorter person, who usually has a beard and is very strong   2. a smaller version of something, smaller than it usually is

1. eg: Yvonne is too short to be an elf, so maybe she is half elf and half dwarf.

2. eg: I want to get a dwarf cat, they are just like normal cats but smaller and cuter.

3. eg: Their profit dwarfed the other companies’ profits.

eg: Yao Ming dwarfes everyone he stands next to.   (he makes everyone look small)

pointy – has a pointed end

eg: Don’t hand someone the pointy end of a knife.

eg: Yvonne has pointy elf ears.

artificial – fake, not real, seems real

eg: I hate the taste of artificial sweetener, it ruins the coffee.

artificial intelligence – machines or computers that have intelligence like a living thing.

eg: A.I. will be the most popular tech in the world.

tedious – slow and boring

eg: That was a tedious speech to watch.

eg: My job is really tedious.

soul – your inner spirit or life

eg: Some people think when you die, your soul goes to heaven, others think your soul goes into another living thing, like an animal.

soul crushing – something that completely changes who you are and the way you think, makes you unhappy and bored, feel like nothing matters.

eg: You might think being an accountant is soul crushing, but I like it.


Chinese                           English

PS                                        That is Photoshopped

A.P.P.                                  app

P.P.T.                                  Presentation

A.I.

Pronunciation

13 – therr-teeN

30 – Therr’D

sweet   I eat too much sweet food.

swee – the EEEEE keeps going

160 – One sixty

1984 – nineteen eighty four   /   NOT    One thousand nine hundred and eighty four

seventieth – SevenD   Ith