F2F Class Notes (Mason) Joan

Homework

Write a paragraph describing how you became interested in your work. Did you study it in college? Or did your interest begin in the workforce.

Vocabulary

Evidence – 证据

Aristocrat – Someone who has money and a good place in society
eg, Most of the castles in France were home to aristocrats.

Grammar

Yes its busy, a lot of things to do – Yes I was busy, I had a lot of things to do.

I went to Paris on May – I went to Paris in May

During the start of may – During the beginning of May

I’ve been there for 7 days – I went there for 7 days

I just in Paris – I only visited Paris

Speaking exercise

I think the best day is Paris is the day we had a 1 day trip to Loire Valley. We went there with a travel vendor, its far away from Paris. We need to take almost 3 hours, but the castles there are very big and we visit two different castles. One is the most famous, called Champai, the other castle they called women’s castle because the host is always a women. And we can see the very beautiful furnitures in this castles. And the things in the castles have age. And you can see the people in the past who are very rich, you can know their lifestyle in that time. and I found an interesting things is that the bed in this castles are very small, and I dont know why they were so small. When I come back to chine I searched it in the website, and I know that in ancient europe people think that if you sleep in the bed you just lay on the bed just sick people will lay on. So they dont sleep on the bed, they just sit on bed to sleep. At different times in history their beds become bigger because they thought its not

I think my best day in Paris was the day we had a 1 day trip to Loire Valley. We went there with a travel agency, it is far away from Paris. The trip took almost 3 hours, but the castles there were very big and we visited two different castles. One is the most famous in that area, called Champai. The other castle they called the women’s castle because the owner was always a woman. We looked at the very beautiful furniture in these castles. The things in the castles were very ancient. You can see aristocrats from the past and understand their lifestyle at that time. I found it interesting that the bed in these castles were very small, and I didnt know why they were so small. When I came back to China I checked online, and I learned that in ancient europe people thought that if you lay down in the bed you would get sick. So they never lay down on the bed, they only sat up to sleep. Later in history, their beds became bigger because they started laying down. They realized that there was no medical evidence which said that laying down would make you sick. 


I would have a larger scope in the future. I will need to talk with different levels people, and help to design our service structures. I think that will be a little challenge for me buts its also a chance to learn more about compensation and benefits. And it’s also the jobs that I like.

I would like to have a larger scope of responsibility in the future. I would need to talk with people at different levels, and help to design our service structures. I think that would be a little challenge for me buts its also a chance to learn more about compensation and benefits. It’s also the position that I am good at and that I enjoy.