Online Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Speaking exercise

today i have to do my work and all day i need have meeting and need do something about training because my company need do something for new colleagues and tell them to do something and tell our customers by our products. this year our industry is not good – many people need to find new job and other company fire some people. we need to use less people to do more something.

today i worked all day. i had some meetings and needed to do something about training because my company have something for new colleagues to do and teach them how to sell our products for our customers. This year our industry is in a recession – many people need to find a new job and other companies fire many people. Our company uses less people for more jobs. 

Vocabulary

staff / employee – yuan gong
eg. we have many staff in our company that work very hard

previous – before
eg. my previous job was in a different company

prepare – an pai

in a recession – the period of time that an industry is going down / getting smaller 
eg. the industry is in a recession at the moment

please speak it againplease say it again

sorry? – what did you say?

talk / speak / say
talk = communicate + ability
speak = communicate + use a language
say = to express meaning / words

support – zhi chi
eg. I try to support the students and teachers at SE

verb – dong ci
noun – ming ci

review – fu xi
eg. Evelyn should review her old notes every week

Grammar

i not have classi don’t have class