F2F Class Notes (Celeste) [W/S]

Homework

Write your answers or tell them in your next class for the questions below. 5-9 sentences for each (pg. 127) 

  1. Tell us about your job.
  2. What is your best piece of advice for someone going to a job interview?

Grammar

If he not give me advice – if he doesn’t give me advice

Vocabulary

briyani – shouzhuafan

Writing exercise

Write about when you needed advice. Try to use the vocabulary below and the vocabulary on page 124. Try to use the sentence structures from the chapter summary. (He said that / I knew that / He asked me if whether / He told me…)

He said that he is a scientist but I didn’t know that he is also a professor and he asked me if I had more time he would be pleased to show me his company . He also told me to go to eat lunch first and to go to his company later.

He said that he is a scientist but I didn’t know that he is also a professor. He asked me if I had more time because he would be pleased to show me his company. He also told me to go (to) eat lunch first and then go to his company after/later.

She said that she had been in Las Vegas last week and now I know that she went there to visit her grandpa. She asked me whether I had been there before? I said that I have never been there. She also told me, that if I should go there, to remember not to spend any money at the casino.

She said that she had been in Las Vegas last week and now I know that she went there to visit her grandpa. She asked me whether I had been there before. I said that I have never been there. She also told me, that if I should go there, to remember not to spend any/a lot of/ gamble any money/play games at the casinos. 

Speaking exercise

I have a interview at tomorrow and I asked my friend what opinions she can give me and she told me to dress up and you need patient and polite. I think hers advice is really useful because I don’t have more experience because I didn’t have more opinions and I accept and listen her advice.

I have an interview tomorrow afternoon and (so) I asked my friend what suggestions she can give/offer me. She told me to dress up and I need to be patient and polite.

I think her advice is really useful because I don’t have a lot of experience with interviews and so I accept and listen to her advice.