Demo Class Notes (Candice X – Tibo)

Now I Am a post graduate I have online course in the university of Manchester.
My major is statistics

I am not good at oral speaking and listening and I have difficulties talking with foreigner students so I am not confident.
The president in British has closed the country so we cannot arrive at the England or Manchester.
I think the English tone. when foreigner students speak very quickly I cannot follow him or her so if they speak normally I can follow it but if some vocabulary very difficult I cannot understand.

When we talk about normal things I cannot talk fluently. just like now I pause first and speak so it is not fluently because of this so I am not confident so I don’t want to speak too much.

When I listen what you say I try to understand what you say in Chinese so maybe I need to have some time to understand and to think what the Chinese meaning it is and translate the normal sentence to answer you.
I take academic learning about writing essays and reading some very difficulties papers so that is good for me but listening and speaking I am not confident.
When I decided to British if there is no Covid 19 I can arrive in English successfully and I can improve my English but now I cannot waste my time to practice my English so I decided to practice m English.

My hobby is to do some yoga and I like to see some fashion magazines and see some fashions shows.
I think I chose statistics for my future careers I am very interested in science and tech knowledge.
My former job is business analysis so I decided to quit my job and have some further studies.
In the It department of an insurance company.
I want to have internship in the UN

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Now I am a post graduate student I have/follow/take online courses in the university of Manchester.
My major is statistics

I am not good at oral English / spoken English  and listening and I have difficulties talking with foreign students so I am not confident. / I am insecure about my English.
The Prime minister in Britain / the UK has closed the country/border so we cannot go to England or Manchester.
I think the English accent is difficult. when foreign students speak very quickly I cannot follow them. If they speak normally I can follow them but if the vocabulary is / if they use difficult words I cannot understand.

When we talk about normal things I cannot talk fluently. just like now I pause first and speak so it is not fluent because of this and I am not confident therefore I don’t want to speak too much.

When I listen to what you say I try to understand what you say in Chinese so maybe I need to take some time to understand/translate and to think what the Chinese meaning is / and to understand the meaning in Chinese and translate the sentence to answer you. / and translate one more time to answer.

I took academic learning about writing essays and reading some very difficulties papers so that was good for me   / that helped to improve my written English but for listening and speaking I am not confident.
When I decided to go to Britain if there hadn’t been any virus I would have arrived in England successfully / I decided to go to Britain in January but then Covid happened and it became impossible.

I thought I could improve my English but now I cannot so I decided to join an English class.
My hobby is to do some yoga and I like to read some fashion magazines and watch some fashions shows.
I think I chose statistics for my future career I am very interested in science and technology .
My former job was business analysis / I used to work as a business analyst but I decided to quit my job and have some further studies.
I was in the II department of an insurance company.
I want to have internship in the UN.

Vocabulary

fluently (adv)
I can speak fluently

fluent (adj)
My English is fluent

accent (n) : way of speaking/tone when speaking
He has an Italian accent when speaking English

British (adj)
I like British food

monarchy (n) political system with a king/queen
England is a monarchy

prime minister (n) leader or number 2 depending on the political system
The leader of the UK is the prime minister

insecure (adj) not confident
I am insecure about my English

foreign (adj)
I like foreign movies

foreigner (n)
Tom is a foreigner

United Nations  (n)
I want to have an internship in the United Nations

lockdown (n) time during which everything is closed
The UK is under lockdown to limit the spread of Covid 19

Grammar

use articles (a/the..) with nouns:
I went to the hospital (n)
I want to go to the United Kingdom
I travelled to the United States

but no articles with names
I went to Huashan hospital
I travelled to China
I will go to Beijing tomorrow
I want to go to England
I travelled to America

3rd conditional (condition and result in the past)
If the virus hadn’t  broken out, I would have travelled to Japan in March.

Pronunciation

tech knowledge

technology

statistics