Online Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Next Class Focus

continue with roleplay for meetings / meeting people for the first time in business

do a bit more connection reading to make reading pronunciation smoother

do more self correction when speaking to correct simple grammar mistakes

Vocabulary

it should takes many timesit will / should take a long time

acceptable – OK / good enough

effective – get a good result / get a lot from it

case study – a real life situation you can study to help you know more about a subject / the future

Reading

Deborah was angry at her son. Her son didn’t listen to her. Her son was 16 years old. Her son thought he knew everything. Her son yelled at Deborah. He told her he didn’t have to do anything. He didn’t have to listen to her. He didn’t have to go to school.

Speaking exercise

today i went out to meet a man who is ready to join us because my boss want to employ him. He’s really good at marketing because this year we want to increase the income of the product but for our team there’s no anyone who knows how to organise the product and the marketing and there’s no one who knows what is important for the marketing. we meet in the villa of my boss. at the beginning he isn’t there and he come there to join us after 1 hour.

today i went out to meet a man who is ready / about to join us because my boss wants to employ / hire him. He’s really good at marketing / he’s a marketing expert / his expertise is in marketing…. because this year we want to increase the income of the product but for our team there’s no one anyone who knows how to organise the product and the marketing and there’s no one who knows what is important for the marketing. We met at the villa of my boss / my boss’ villa. at the beginning he wasn’t there but he came there to join us after 1 hour.


Hi I’m Sandy, are you John / you must be John…

It’s really nice to meet you / it’s lovely to meet you / it’s so nice to meet you in person / face to face / it’s great to put a face to the name

I hope you found the place OK / How did you go finding the place?

Can I get your anything to drink before we start / Would you like a cup of water, tea, coffee before we get started? If you need the bathroom it’s just over there on the left.