Online Class Notes (Alex) (S)

How do you think being a dad changed you as a person?

I think first of all, how to deal with different people will be a big challenge for me. I’m going to be facing a quite different working environment. I’ll have a new boss and a group of new colleagues. I think I can’t achieve any success without a great teamwork. But by now I know little of them. What are their background, what are their habits. Those things are quite unfamiliar to me. (I’m quite unfamiliar with those things) I will try my best to build a good relationship with them as soon as possible. And secondly I think how to improve my fast learning skills will be another challenge to be a qualified CFO. As we know, CFO is a particularly significant role in a company. I need to master diversified (various, diverse) skills or abilities to handle complicated situations. I need to know accounting skills and what is a company strategy and how to operating operate its business and how to improve the sales, so I think it will be truly hard to get all of those skills in a short time. So that can be a big challenge to me.

Grammar

I’m quite enjoying to be a dad – I quite enjoy being a dad 

What’s the difference between significant / considerable / huge ?

I appreciate / notice / I take notice of something significant
I admire something considerable
I’m impressed / I’m surprised by something huge

to appreciate something = to evaluate / recognize the value of something
eg: I appreciate that you’re being kind to me = I notice and recognize the value of your kindness

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping just had a one-hour private meeting
I appreciate the significance of this news = I understand / I recognize the significance / the value / the importance of this news

It’s hard to appreciate the effect of the US-China trade war on the video games industry
It’s hard to evaluate / to understand the importance of the US-China trade war on ….

in the word “evaluate” you have the word “value”
to evaluate is to measure the value of something