Demo Class Notes (Shen Ye – Vicki)

A: Tell me about your job.

I use to be an editor in an internet company, and then I was in charge of the social media in the magazine. Several years ago, I was in marketing in the movie theater. So my job is cultural and art related industry. So these years, I found a lot of foreigners come to shanghai, sometimes when you do some jobs, you will met some foreigners. You can’t understand what they are saying, you just like mute when they are talking and I cant understand them, so if you don’t understand the language then you cant do the work with them.

Revised:
I used to be an editor in an Internet company, and then I was in charge of the social media department/workforce within the magazine. Several years ago, I was working in marketing in the movie theatre. So my job was cultural and art related./So my job was in the cultural and art related industry. So these year, I found a lot of foreigners coming /who come to Shanghai. Sometimes, when you do some work, you will meet some foreigners. If you can’t understand what they are saying, you will just be like mute/a muted person. When they are talking to me, I can’t understand them. So if you don’t understand the language, then you can’t do work with them. 

Grammar

relation signal words

if….(then)…
if…., ……

although …. , …..

because…., (so)…..

SVO – remember only one verb

Subject + verb + object

The gold medal for the 44th Chess Olympiad has been shared by India and Russia. The countries received joint-gold because of a glitch with the Internet. The Olympiad takes place every two years to find the best chess-playing nation in the world. This year it was held online for the first time. The online version of the competition was because of coronavirus. The final was between players from Russia and India. However, some games came to an end after two Indian players lost their Internet connection. Officials at the tournament said they had no choice but to award the gold medal to the two countries. They said this was fair because the Indian players lost time when the Internet connection failed.

Vocabulary

glitch – mistake
i.e. There was a glitch with the Internet.

We are done with that. – we don’t need it anymore.

biography – zhuan ji
i.e. I have written a biography of myself.

display – to show in order
i.e. I have a CD display.