Demo Class Notes (James – Tibo)

Speaking exercise

I am from Taiwan, the south part of Taiwan and I have been living and working here for over 15 years and now I am working for Japanese trading company which sales Panasonic automation machinery to Chinese Taiwanese and Japanese customers. So the purpose why I come here is I prepare to take TOEFL test but it is hard for me in my 40s. I want try it for my oral English I have been trying to practice it for many years and I have been to Australia to study for short term study tour (10 days)
I guess I have few opportunities to talk to foreigners which language is native English but I think I can communicate with them in kind of commercial level but not so fluently but at least I can exchange my opinions or thoughts to them.
Maybe I want to improve my oral English more not only for taking exams but also I have been studying English for over 30 years, since I was a child and I don’t want to give up I want to keep learning.
I would grab any opportunities to keep it and improve it.
that is the basic idea which today brings me here to talk to you.
I haven’t talking to someone in English for almost a month but I still try to chat with those filipino English teachers online.
how to keep the rhythm of speaking English.
face to face is the most effective way to maintain oral English level.

My speaking skills and listening skills is better than writing and reading. Why do I say so is that my personality is that I like to talk to people so the strong point is that I like to communicate.
But I am lack of those trainings in reading and writing lessons so basically in my opinion I should focus more on writing and reading skills in English.

I like boxing and basketball because I am not so energetic to keep playing for so long time so I am trying to do boxing instead. I think it is kind of a good way to keep you energetic

in my opinion if we talk about environmental issues I would suggest cremation, the reason why I say this is that we don’t have enough land to complete the burial for huge population in the world so we need to consider our next generation I suggest cremation is better.


I am from Taiwan, the south part of Taiwan and I have been living and working here for over 15 years and now I am working for a  Japanese trading company which sells Panasonic automation machinery to Chinese Taiwanese and Japanese customers. So the reason why I come here / so what brings me here is I am planning to take  the TOEFL test but it is hard for me because I am in my 40s.
I want try it for my oral English I have been trying to practice it for many years and I have been to Australia to study for a short term study tour (10 days)
I guess I have few opportunities / I don’t have enough opportunities to talk to foreigners who are native speakers / to talk to native English speakers  but I think I can communicate with them at a commercial level / at business level but not so fluently but at least I can exchange my opinions or thoughts with them.
Maybe I want to improve my oral English more.
not only for taking exams but also because I have been studying English for over 30 years, since I was a child and I don’t want to give up I want to keep learning.
I would grab any opportunities to keep it/ maintain my English level and improve it.
that is the basic idea which today brings me here to talk to you.
I haven’t talked to anyone in English for almost a month but I still try to chat with those filipino English teachers online.
it helps me keep the rhythm of speaking English. /it helps me not forget my English / it helps me maintain my English.

face to face is the most effective way to maintain oral English level.

My speaking skills and listening skills are better than writing and reading.
Why do I say so? well,  my personality is like that , I like to talk to people so the strong point is that I like to communicate.
But I am lacking  experience / I am not confident in reading and writing lessons so basically in my opinion I should focus more on writing and reading skills in English.

I like boxing and basketball.

 I am trying to do boxing / I picked up boxing  because I am not so energetic to keep playing for a long time anymore. I think it is kind of a good way to keep you energetic

in my opinion if we talk about environmental issues I would suggest cremation, the reason why I say this is that we don’t have enough land to burry everyone . /  There is not enough land and too many people / we would not be able to accommodate everyone if burial was the only solution.

so we need to consider the next generation. our descendants  I suggest choosing  cremation is better.

Vocabulary

remains (n) what is left / body
we visited the remains of the temple

to cremate : burn to ashes
The body was cremated

Crematorium (n) Place where bodies are cremated
We went to the crematoria for the funerals

cremation (n) : the burning of a body
I prefer cremation

tragedy (n) : disaster / opposite of commedy
This play is a tragedy
The earthquake lead to a tragedy

trajectory (n): movement of a flying object / path taken in a movement
We adjusted the trajectory of the rocket to make sure it doesn’t crash

hub (n) place of interconnections
HK is a financial hub.

make a good (first )impression : give new people you meet a good feeling about you
I made a good impression during the meeting with the client

make it impressive : give a wow feeling
We made the ppt impressive

confident (adj) : believing in one self
I am very confident

confidence (n)

insecure (adj) not confident (about)
Tom is insecure about his weight, he feels he is too fat

insecurity (n)

rhetorical questions : questions for which you don’t expect an answer
I asked a rhetorical questions during the presentation

Grammar

at + level/scale
We discussed at a deep level
He was driving at high speed

I talked to someone (+)
I haven’t talked to anyone (-)