F2F Class Notes (Tony) [W]

Vocabulary

my boss give me a long time to stay – my boss tried for a long time to get me to stay

we gave them a pure simple question

they [ insulted / dissed (heavy slang word) ] him

the last two meetings we be dissed

[ they keep in touch / they are close ]

we don’t have enough emotion we are not close with him


a “know it all” – a person who THINKS they know everything

eg: He’s kind of a know it all.

eg: He’s really a know it all.

eg: Stop being such a know it all, nobody likes that. Like you have some special insight or something.

commissionan amount of money paid to an employee for selling something

eg: Those sales people make most of their salary from commission.

eg: We get 10% commission from this client. We used to get 15%.

fit (adj) – in good shape or healthy

eg: I feel more fit after I quit drinking beer.

eg: If you want to be fit, don’t eat very late at night.

Writing exercise

Talk about your plan in ten years future.
1. To accompany with my mother, push her to accept her tumor and cut it off.
2. Continue my English study and push myself to fitness my body.
3. Take my family out to go to dive, and go to hiking.
4. Insist on to push my son review his homework everyday.
5. To a new place to continue my advertising study.


Talk about your plan for the next ten years
1. To accompany with my mother, and persuade her to accept that she has a tumor and [ cut it off / get it removed ] .
2. Continue studying English and push myself to get fit.
3. Take my family out to go diving, and go hiking.
4. Insist on pushing my son to review his homework everyday.
5. Transfer to a new place to continue my advertising study.

Grammar

he stands on up for me

he talked to me for more than 2 hours / he kept me there for more than 2 hours

the last two meetings we be dissed by them – the last two meetings we were insulted by them.