F2F Class Notes (Raph)[S]

Homework

Go to www.breakingnewsenglish.com, pick an article, read it, and then write a paragraph about it.

Vocabulary

Envision (v): 1- to imagine or expect that something is a likely or desirable possibility in the future.
E.g.: He envisioned a partnership between business and government.
E.g.: The company envisions adding at least five stores next year.
E.g.: I envision myself working in New York in the future.

Anticipate (v): 1-  to imagine or expect that something will happen.
E.g.: We don’t anticipate any trouble.
E.g.: We had one or two difficulties along the way that we didn’t anticipate.
E.g.: Are you anticipating a lot of people at the party tonight?

Data (n): 1- information collected to be used to help decision-making. 2- information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer.
E.g.: The data was collected by various researchers.
E.g.: My company uses a lot of customer data to analyze its sales.
E.g.: Facebook had to apologize for leaking the data of over 50 million people during the American presidential election.

Parentheses (n): 1- ()

Speaking exercise

Original:

Today I had discussion about my new project with my Chinese CEO and I’m working in a flagship store renewal project recently and I was supposed to report the final plan to headquarters Korea CEO day after tomorrow, but today Chinese boss he suddenly wanted to change everything about the plan! So we had long discussion about that, because that plan was the one he had already confirmed before, but at the end, with some sales data and some other team member talking he finally changed his mind to keep the original plan, so happy ending!

Edited:

Today I had a discussion about my new project with my Chinese CEO. Recently I’ve been working on a flagship store renovation project, and I was supposed to report the final plan to the CEO at the headquarters in Korea the day after tomorrow. But today the Chinese boss suddenly wanted to change everything about the plan! So we had long discussion about that, because that plan was the one he had already approve before / because he had already approved that plan before, but in the end, with the help of some sales data and some other team members persuading him, he finally changed his mind and decided to keep the original plan. So it was a happy ending!

Pronunciation

Synonym: /ˈsɪn.ə.nɪm/

Parentheses: /pəˈren.θə.siːz/

Contentious: /kənˈten.ʃəs/

Dubious: /ˈduː.bi.əs/

Questionable: /ˈkwes.tʃə.nə.bəl/

Anticipate: /ænˈtɪs.ə.peɪt/