F2F Class Notes (Ally)[S]

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Vocabulary

tricky: hard/difficult/easy to get wrong
ie. Verb tense is the trickiest.

superior: (n)shang si (adj) better
ie. He has the superior education background but she has more experiences.
ie. He is my direct superior/supervisor.

seniority: being the elder 年长; 级别高; 资历
ie. Seniority is very important in our line/field of work.

cheap/stingy: xiao qi (cheap is more neg)
ie. Everyone knows how stingy he is.

bribe: (v and n)贿赂
ie. I can’t even take small bribes.
ie. I can’t bribe government officials.

disciplined: (adj) 遵守纪律的; 受过训练的;  (n) discipline
ie. Our company has many disciplines regarding taking bribes.

Grammar

“fine line” – small grey area

“gave sb a pass” – go easy on someone

“leave work at work” – don’t bring work home

“jog my memory”

one reason is + noun
one reason is + that+sentence/idea

Speaking exercise

I think one reason is busy and I’m used to video classes.
I think one reason is lack of time/that I’ve been really busy recently, and another is that I got used to video classes.

Most of the video classes is voice and not see each other.
Most of the video classes is voice-only (adj) and we can’t see each other.

For the auditor, one is I’m the main auditor.. Another is I was the coordinator of the auditee
For the first one, as the main auditor, I have to..I’m in charge/responsible for ….. For another, I am …

Q: Tell me about your boss.
A: My boss he is the CFO of our company. He is a logical and he is focused on details. Everything we send to him, he will read it carefully and find out the small issues, like the English wording. I think that is because he is the CFO so he’s more serious relate to everything. Another characteristic of him is, he is very cheap. Every time we want him to invite us to dinner or afternoon tea, always he will reject our request. I think for the promotion and every year increasing, we have to argue with him and present many things to him. He can increase the percentage. We think it’s hard to get money. I remember last Spring Festival, he send a red packet in We Chat. It was 200. He insists on his own opinion, it’s hard to change his mind. He thinks he’s right and he has the solution / idea to solve the problem, the whole project, and you have to follow it. He will give you a general idea firstly, then you propose your actions, follow this general idea… he will look at it carefully and find out wrong – not wrong, – until he thinks it’s ok. We don’t want to try to persuade him. Most of cases, we cannot actually success. I think the good part of our CFO, he is focusing on ability. If you have higher ability, you get higher position and higher income.

Edit for next time:

A: My boss he is the CFO of our company. He is a logical and he is focused on details. Everything we send to him, he will read it carefully and find out the small issues, like the English wording. I think that is because he is the CFO so he’s more serious relate to everything. Another characteristic of him is, he is very cheap. Every time we want him to invite us to dinner or afternoon tea, always he will reject our request. I think for the promotion and every year increasing, we have to argue with him and present many things to him. He can increase the percentage. We think it’s hard to get money. I remember last Spring Festival, he send a red packet in We Chat. It was 200. He insists on his own opinion, it’s hard to change his mind. He thinks he’s right and he has the solution / idea to solve the problem, the whole project, and you have to follow it. He will give you a general idea firstly, then you propose your actions, follow this general idea… he will look at it carefully and find out wrong – not wrong, – until he thinks it’s ok. We don’t want to try to persuade him. Most of cases, we cannot actually success. I think the good part of our CFO, he is focusing on ability. If you have higher ability, you get higher position and higher income.

She’s.. ability is not so good. Most of the things she done is not correct. At least she was fired.

It’s hard for me to promote now because..

Pronunciation

customs  = not “customers”

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