F2F Class Notes (David) [S/W]

Homework

Pretend I’m a new customer. Write an email describing what your company can do for me.

Speaking exercise

At work, I need to use the English. -> At work, I need to use English. (don’t use the article “the” before a language).

At work, I need to use English to send my customers by email because they don’t know Chinese. -> At work, I need to use English to [send my customers emails]/[communicate with my customers by email] because they don’t know Chinese.

The PPT’s are about the project, Just like SEM/SEO. It’s easy to use English to make the PPT’s because for work I understand the project and I have a lot of time to change it.

Writing exercise

In the morning,I woke up at 8 AM and I eat some foods and I took the subway to work for 30 minutes. At 10 AM,I had a meeting with my team for a project for 2 hours. in the meeting,everyone said some words with the project.

At 19 PM,I went to home to took the subway,At home,I had dinner with my friends,and then we played a game together because every week we need do something together.

In the morning, I woke up at 8 AM, I ate some food, and then I took the subway to work for 30 minutes. At 10 AM, I had a meeting with my team for a project for 2 hours. In the meeting, everyone said something about the project.

At 19 o’clock/7 PM, I took the subway home/I went home by subway. At home, I had dinner with my friends, and then we played a game together because every week always/usually do something together.

Grammar

Uncountable / countable nouns – uncountable nouns: food, water, air, rice, milk, etc. Cannot be counted, cannot say “many food, many water” etc, can say “a lot of food, some rice, a little milk”, etc. Most nouns however, are countable: 5 toys, 6 hamburgers, 1000 cars, a million elephants.

Vocabulary

Count – 数数

colleague/coworker – 同事

Switzerland – 瑞士