Online Class Notes (Nicholas)(S)

Pronunciation

raise = RAYZ

Vocabulary

highlights = “shiny points”/”shining points”

key findings = “good findings”

fatherlessness / fatherless – to be without a father

e.g. America is struggling with a problem of fatherlessness.

startling – scared me a little – surprised me a little bit

e.g. The first time I saw a horror film it was quite startling.

e.g. I was startled when she entered the room loudly.

co-parenting – this is when two divorced parents decide to raise their child together as a team even though they are not married and even though they may have new spouses

e.g. Co-parenting is a new trend!

institution – a very important tradition that is supported by society – they help keep society stable.

e.g. Marriage is an important institution.

e.g. Government and law are both institutions of society.

broken homes – when the mother and father are not together raising their kids together

e.g. When a child is raised in a broken home, he may struggle in life.

e.g. When a child is raised in a broken home, he could struggle in life.

repeat one shiny words / repeat a consistent message 

consistent – to something over and over again

e.g. Zora comes to class consistently, twice a week.

Grammar

in some news we saw the foreigner mommy / in some news we saw foreign mothers

he didn’t divorce with his ex-wife

have this power right / have this political power / this type of political influence

to press the people to do something in law / to pressure people to something in law

before I’m 30 / before I was 30

can own my own shop / I wanted to own my own shop

I think the good idea is important / I think having a good idea is important

Focus on past tense

Make most nouns plural

my father have 50 workers / my father has 50 workers

in my ex-company / in my former company

to show your ability to show you professional / to show your professionalism

Original

I think it’s just raise my career – my professional knowledge – I think it’s just – I think I would raise my professional knowledge in my career. You keep working, you keep finding, you keep discovering in your media knowledge, I think you keep in touch with client with advertiser agency or with sales and with media, I think it would be provide.

We have a lot of training, every week, and you just enjoy the different training, maybe you can start study more than your areas knowledge. Recently I thought that opinion because I want to have change, but I think my professional knowledge is not so good or strong so I want to study for several months then I jump into another company and continue a new career.

Corrected

I think my future goal is to just continue [elevating my career]– to add to my professional knowledge – I think it’s just – I think I would invest in / add to my professional knowledge in my career. You keep working, you keep finding, you keep discovering new media knowledge, I think you should/ can keep in touch with clients with advertiser agencies or with sales and with media, I think it would improve myself / and my professional life.

We have a lot of training / trainings, every week, and you just enjoy the different trainings, maybe you can start to study / studying outside your [area of expertise / area of focus]. Recently I thought that opinion because I want to make a change, but I think my professional knowledge is not so good enough or strong enough so I want to study for several more months then I can jump into another company and continue a new career.

Original

Maybe have second baby – I’m joking, I’m afraid. Because my husband want a girl – want a daughter – but I think the pressure on us too much now, so I talked about my husband this problem, so he agree with me and understand with me so we stand on one side. Because the Chinese population is not in a big raise/race, and I think I reviewed some report about our country’s population maybe in several decades our population – our young age people can’t take the country’s developer’s pressure – can’t contribute to our country develop.

Corrected

Maybe have second baby – I’m joking, I’m afraid. Because my husband wants a girl – wants a daughter – but I think the pressure on us is too much now, so I talked about with my husband about this problem, so he agreed with me and was understanding / and understood me so we are one the same side. Because the Chinese population is not increasing, and I think I reviewed some report about our country’s population maybe in several decades our population – our young age people can’t take the country’s development pressure – can’t contribute to our country so that it can develop.