Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Focus on: connecting your ideas with conjunctions – don’t make short sentences unless you have to. If you have 2 short sentences that are related, use a conjunction to connect them.

Last Sun. I delivered a speech by text on the skills of passing interview on a wechat group, before the speech only one person enrolled in who is the leader of the organization. Compared with the other speaker, they would have at least 3-5 people to join and discuss the topic together, so I felt very awkward and played a joke on myself ” Hi everybody, welcome to my talk show tonight.” But no one replied until my speech went on 5 mins later, one person joined and discussed with me, then the second, the third… ….After the speech, there are nine people to join. I’m so happy to see the result. Even on the next day, someone saw the past message of the speech , and found it impressing, then add my wechat to share with me their good comments on the speech.I felt the sense of success, not only for my keeping optimistic mind to finish it which at the beginning no audience, but also for helping more people to have confidence to pass the interview.

Email
–Please kindly check the contract attached and print the file in two times and chop the company stamp and sign your name on the files.
–Well noted with many thanks(is there any other way to say it?)

Last Sun, I delivered a speech by text on the skills of passing interviews in a wechat group, and / but before the speech only one person enrolled (in it) who is the leader of the organization. Compared with the other speaker, they would have at least 3-5 people to join and discuss the topic together, so I felt very awkward and made fun of myself ”Hi everybody, welcome to my talk show tonight.” But no one replied until 5 minutes into my speech, when / and then one person joined and discussed the topic with me, then the second, then the third etc. After the speech, there were nine people to join it / me / there were 9 people who joined me which was a great result and made me really happy. Even on the next day, someone saw the past messages of the speech , and found it impressive, then added my wechat to share their good comments with me on the speech. I felt the sense of success, not only for me keeping an optimistic attitude / approach to finish something which at the beginning had no audience, but also for helping more people to have confidence to pass the interviews / any interview. 

Email
–Please kindly check the attached contract, print 2 physical copies of it, and add the company chop as well as your signature (both non-digital versions).
–Well noted with many thanks(is there any other way to say it?) / Ok, noted – thanks so much / Ok thanks a lot for letting me know (casual + friendly) 

Grammar

when – at the time that / and at that time

Before the speech, which only 1 person enrolled in, I had a coffee with my boss.

avoid confusing – avoid confusion

almost i give up but the hope is come up – I almost gave up but it raised my hopes

give up the speech – give up on the speech

Vocabulary

to himself or herself – to themselves / to them 

time is up – finished
eg. time is up Jesse – let’s finish class

it’s time for class / it’s time to start – beginning

noticed / noted
noticed – fa xian
noted – understood / will remember

my hopes were raised < > my hopes were dashed 

on the contrary
eg. you think that coffee is expensive in Australia but on the contrary… it’s actually cheap!

in my mind – OK for saying that my thoughts may be different from others
as far as I know – information
as far as I’m concerned – belief / decision
from what I’ve heard – learned / someone told you / news
I think / I feel – normal