F2F Class Notes (Nick)

Homework

  1. Write about how you would describe the doll.
  2. Do some email services regarding legal discussion at work (difficult legal terms)

Vocabulary

Preparation – the noun for “prepare”

专业 – Professional vs. Specialist/Specialized – “professional” relates to some kind of business, some kind of job; “specialized” relates to having detailed knowledge of something specific, “specialist” is a person with detailed knowledge of something
e.g. I have professional experience as in-house legal counsel (I have experience with doing the job of in-house legal counsel)

-ist (sometimes -er, or -ian) – 者,家,员
e.g. Specialist, Pianist, Novelist, Artist, Capitalist (资本家)
e.g. Teacher, Lawyer, Trumpeter, Writer
e.g. Historian, Librarian

Improve – to get better at something, 提高
e.g. Laura is here to improve her English (she’s in the right place!)

Near – close, 附近

Dormitory (Dorm) – 宿舍

Along – on the sides of something long
Around – near something in a circle or square

College – the general word for studies after high school
University – always a four-year college

Preposition – 介词

Legislature – the people who write laws 立法机关
Executive – the people who control enforcing the law 行政
Judicial – judges and courts 司法

Regulation – the law on enforcing the legislature’s laws, how are we going to understand the law
e.g. The government just passed new environmental regulations according to the new law.

Pollution – 污染

Grammar

Mean vs. Meaning – verb vs. noun
e.g. When I describe an idea, can you understand what I mean?
e.g. What is the meaning of this word?

I don’t know what it meanmeans

I need to report my boss some case – I need to report some cases to my boss
— Which verbs use “to”?
e.g. Need to, Want to, have to (like need), ought to, like to
e.g. Should, must, would, will, have (past)

His Chinese is better than me – better than mine