Online Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

1. I’m pushing one and half years here.
2. I’ve spent two and a half years in SH
3. I’m a family-oriented person
4. Those two are compatible / the 2 of them are compatible / they are compatible with each other.
5. Your dress is compatible / suitable.
6. I have a personal line which is my mobile and a landline for work.
7. My cold calls to customers can be identified as a scams.
8. Don’t pick up the phone, it might be scammers / don’t answer the call, it might be from a scammer
9. You should be vigilant of knockout drops / your drink being spiked in when you are clubbing.
10.The information they have is sketchy / dodgy.
11. People approach me randomly on the street and ask me if I‘d like to change my hair style.
12. Being persuasive is one of the job requirements.
13. Guess how I responded?
14. The job was open to those fresh grads.

Vocabulary

keep up appearances – to do things to make sure that people are not disappointed and see you’re taking care of yourself / keeping your standards high
eg. I should wear makeup to work just to keep up appearances

i plan my schedule in advance of the following week

virtual high 5

it’s not over til the fat lady sings – you should never give up even if it’s right at the end

I never slack off – be lazy

she’s not keeping up with the pace

master’s classmates

deadbeat – total loser
eg. he’s a massive deadbeat! = he’s a total total total loser

mentally strong / strong willed
eg. she’s not strong willed enough to work at google

oblivious – clueless / has no idea what’s going on / to be completely unaware
eg. he’s totally oblivious to what he looks like

her people skills are poor / she’s not good with people

entitled
eg. she acts really entitled and takes my help for granted

bizarre = very weird
eg. what a bizarre thing to do!

mind numbing – sth that is so boring it makes your brain numb / have no feeling
eg. teaching this kid is absolutely mind numbing / is a mind numbing experience

it’s like bashing your head against the wall = futile / pointless / waste of energy
eg. teaching him is like bashing my head against the wall

Grammar

many of my colleagues they like to use…

if their competitors they don’t

she was socialising (v) / she was so social (adj)

here comes to another story – here comes another story 

i doesn’t like – I don’t like 

she has saw it – she has seen it

Pronunciation

she moved to – connected – “she moveto”

contribute – con TRI bute