F2F Class Notes (Kyle) (S)

Adjectives vs. Comparative Adjectives vs. Superlative Adjectives

bad , worse than, the worst 

good, better than, the best

tall, taller than, the tallest

•       –         –     the list of adjectives goes on and on! Do an exercise?

Conversation Topic: What is the difference between negative and positive stress? 

Original Version:

In my opinion, positive stress makes me more challengeable person. If I don’t get the stress, I just stay at home because I am a lazy person. So that’s why I am here.

Negative stress makes me frustrated so I don’t want to do anything, that kind of stress is not good. Maybe my boss always tells me, I work hard but she always saying I need more information. She never gives me congratulates me/positive feedback.. She always wants more and more. My spirit disappear. She is eating my spirit.—-> She sucks out my positive energy… We work together but we never synergy. For 7 years I have worked with her and she has been my boss.

Actually, I wanted to come to Shanghai to move on without her but eventually my company sent us here together…. No, that is ridiculous! Timing is not good. So my colleagues have told me that you and your boss are bad destiny / destined to be stuck together. So I want to go back at the end of this year but I am nervous.

I can’t escape my destiny of working for her. If she was a man, I feel like we would have to be married. I have fought with her for 4 times. Four years ago, our relationship was so-so, but 3 years ago our relationship was getting worse. That time our relationship was the worst. She didn’t want to let me go to Shanghai but eventually we came here together.

Corrected Version 

In my opinion, positive stress makes me more challengeable person. If I am not stressed, then I would just stay at home because I am a lazy person. So that’s why I need to take a class in order to learn English.

Negative stress makes me frustrated so I don’t want to do anything, that kind of stress is not good. Maybe my boss is always nagging me. I work hard but she always demanding  things from me. She never congratulates me, or gives me positive feedback. We work together but we never have synergy, she drains my positive energy. Maybe, she is an energetic vampire. She is the worst. 

Actually, I wanted to come to Shanghai to move on without her but eventually my company sent us here together.  So my colleagues have told me that me and my boss are destined to be stuck together. 

If she was a man, I feel like we would have to be married. I have fought with her for 4 times. Four years ago, our relationship was so-so, but 3 years ago our relationship was getting worse. That time our relationship was the worst.

Vocabulary

Draining (verb/adj). = to suck out the liquid/energy of someone/something

She is a draining person, she tends to remove the energy. She is an “energetic vampire” (common, not polite, just for jokes)

established (adj.)  = to have a foundation, to have a good solid structure

to be able to be challenged —> challengeable 

it stresses me out / don’t need to worry about it

Cell phone addiction= always looking at phone, alcoholic, coffee addiction, drugs, cigarettes

synergy (noun).= the energy between two systems or people

Our synergy isn’t good. We don’t have synergy.

to ask for ____ / to request _____  How are you asking for more information? Is it polite, kind and clear? Or is it short, rude and unclear? 

Could I/May I please have = the polite way to ask for something

Give me = impolite

Pronunciation

clinic — K Lin eK

humidity–   hue Mid It Tee

colleagues – CAL Leegz

cheap – Chee p / Chip 

—> to be required to = have to  ... “I don’t want to have toworry about it” 

Can you/Do you like to – for asking a question

—-> Can = possibility, to be able to, 可以

—-> Do you like to = 你喜欢吗？

Examples Sentences:

ex. I think that Xi is a popular leader of China.

ex. I think that Korean food is good for your health. 

ex. What type of person are you? Tell me who you are.

ex. Hey Mate, what are you doing after work? Wanna go out?

ex. I studied for one and half years.

ex. I ate one and a half apple.