F2F Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Write about your second week at work. What are your colleagues like? Use have vs. get.

Vocabulary

Have vs. Get – what you “have” is now; what you got was recently
e.g. I have a bottle of gum (I’m not saying when I got it)
e.g. I got a bottle of gum today (I just bought it today)

Essay – something you write, explaining, convince, etc. 作文
e.g. For homework, our teacher told us to write an essay on Mao’s unified front theory.

Mid-size vs. Medium – mid-size is used for big things, medium for small things
e.g. Mid-size car, mid-size company, mid-size house
e.g. This shirt/coffee/order of fries is medium.
Middle – something which is between other things, by location or by order
e.g. Middle school (after primary school, but before high school; order)
e.g. Our house was in the middle of the street (not at the end, near an intersection, but between the other houses; location)

Order – 次序, first second third…

Like/Don’t Like About – one thing you (don’t) like about something
e.g. This is a nice house, but what I don’t like is how small the bathroom is (I like the house, just not the bathroom)

Curse – a little stronger than “swear at,” and probably about the person, not just what they did
e.g. I cursed him out because of how he treats his employees.

Grammar

If you want to add a description which is not necessary to the sentence, you can attach it with a comma ( , )
e.g. I do futures purchasing for pp, a kind of plastic.
e.g. Every year Chicago has a large event called Lollapalooza, a music festival.
— This only works when the description follows the word you want to describe.
e.g. Lollapalooza, a music festival held in Chicago, happens on the first weekend in August.

I had a new job and last week is the first week of the job.  The company is an e-commerce platform of chemicals and plastic. What I do is futures purchasing, and purchase pp, it’s a kind of plastic.  (How big is it?) It’s a middle company. What I don’t like the company is the boss. He likes to swear people, and he likes to say dirty sentence to them. But he only swears to higher-level, such as managers. I just heard about this from other employees, and I think the environment of the office is not very fine. The office is not bright. The office doesn’t have many sunshine and the air is not well.

I got a new job and last week was the first week of the job.  The company is an e-commerce platform for chemicals and plastic.** What I do is pp futures purchasing. It’s a kind of plastic. (How big is it?) It’s a mid-size company. What I don’t like about the company is the boss. He likes to swear at people, (and he likes to say bad words to them.) But he only swears at higher-level staff, such as managers. I just heard about this from other employees. Also, I think the environment of the office is not very nice. The office is not bright. The office doesn’t have any sunshine and the air is not fresh.

** The company is a chemicals and plastic e-commerce platform.