Demo Class Notes (Lani – Tibo)

I am Lani, I moved to Shanghai for about 10 years. I work at a culture media company, My company like agency, we for Dongfang TV. We have a lot about Korean artists and I also can speak Korean.
I am a minority , Korean Chinese.
In school I studied Japanese but I forgot now. In the school I studied Japanese, it was my second language.
Although I choose this major but this is not my hope, this is my family;s home. and graduated school I go to company.
we need to introduce artists to Dongfang TV. Singer, actors, …

don’t need to show on TV just have your voice so I chose this work.
But just for one year. I liked it./ that was ok.
I like all kinds of music. I like traveling.
I like Swiss the air is fresh and the sky is blue, the chinese air is very dark.

Italy I like the culture, the buildings, history.
Pronounce is very hard .
I like to study languages but I don’t have time to speak English.
Before I study English in WS for half year . but don’t have any improve
Not face to face. Just group but most of time you need to do WS app don’t have time to speak but I need to improve my speaking.
Now I need to improve my speaking and listening. This is my first goal
Sometimes I need to use English but my work at Korean but I can speak Koreans so very ok.
But I like English I want to study English but I can’t find environment.

I am Lani, I have been living in Shanghai for about 10 years / I moved to SH 10 years ago. I work at a culture media company, My company is like an agency, we work with / collaborate with Dongfang TV.
We have a lot of content/videos about Korean artists and I can also speak Korean.
I am part of a minority , I am Korean Chinese.

we need to introduce artists to Dongfang TV. Singer, actors, …
In school I studied Japanese but I forgot most of it / I don’t remember much.
In school I studied Japanese, it was my second language. / Japanese was my second language.
Although I chose this major but this was not my what I wanted /  This was the choice of my family / I followed my family’s plan
and I graduated (from university) then I went to work / I found a job / I started to work.

I don’t need to appear / show myself  on TV I just  use my voice so I chose this work/job.
I was an MC just for one year. That was ok.

I like all kinds of music. I like traveling.
I like Switzerland the air is fresh and the sky is blue, the Chinese air is polluted / in China we have more air pollution.

Italy I like the culture, the buildings / the architecture , the history.
it is hard to pronounce   / the pronunciation is hard
I like to study languages but I don’t have time to speak English.
Before I studied English in WS for half a year / 6 months. but didn’t see any improvement / but it didn’t really help me
It was not 1 on 1 / it was a group class .  Most of the time you need to use the WS app and don’t have time to speak but I need to improve my speaking. / I felt the class at WS didn’t fit my needs.
Now I need to improve my speaking and listening. This is my first goal
Sometimes I need to use English but my work requires Korean but I can speak Koreans so it is no problem for me.
But I like English I want to study English but I can’t find the environment. / I lack the opportunity to speak English.

Vocabulary

former (adj) : ex / from before
Being an MC was my former job, I moved to a new position since then.

adviser/advisor (n) : someone who gives advice
I work as a media adviser for CCTV.

judge (n) 法官
The judge sent me to jail

to defraud (v) : to cheat 骗取
We shot a video about bad people defrauding old people of their savings.

to shoot (v) : fire a gun / create visual content (photo / video)
We shot a video about a Korean singer.

shooting (n)
I went to a photo shooting because we needed a cover for the singer

fraud (n) : cheating / making fakes
He went to jail for tax fraud
We need to reduce fraud.

to reduce (v): make go down  / make less
Our boss decided to reduce working hours from 9h to 7h a day.

reduction (n)
We worked on a reduction of our costs

to increase (v/n): make more / make go up
Our boss increased our salary by 500% in my dreams
We see an increase in the number of people watching our show

campaign (n) a set of actions (advertising / politics /war)
media campaign : advertising in different media to promote products
We shot a video campaign for Xiaomi.
Trump started his campaign to continue to be president
Japan launched a campaign against China during WW2

face to face: when both parties are in the same place
We can’t meet face to face because of the virus so we will have a meeting on Zoom.

pronounce (v)
I don’t know how to pronounce this word

pronunciation / pronounciation (n)
I need to improve my pronunciation

mother tongue : language spoken from an early age
I have 2 mother tongues : Chinese and Korean

improve (v)
I want to improve my English

improvement (n)
I saw some amazing improvements at SE

goal (n)  : what you want to achieve 目标
my goal is to improve my English

Swiss (n/adj) people / from Switzerland
I like Swiss watches

Switzerland (n) : country
I visited Switzerland 5 years ago

Grammar

present perfect : there is a result in the present / now
I have lost my keys (I am in front of the door and I can’t open it )

Past simple : to mention something that is over
I lost my keys last week (I lost them but I have new keys now)

I haven’t been to India (in my whole life / I have no experience of what it is like)

I didn’t go to India (punctual at some point in time, for example all your friends go to India but you choose not to) (maybe you have been to India many times before)

Grammar

like : show interest
I like movies

be like : similar to
He is like his father