Online Class Notes (Nick)

Write about the VR conference. Did you like it? Did it go well?
Focus on your verb use when writing (when did it happen? is it finished?)

Vocabulary

Diplomacy – relations between countries
Diplomat – the people who work in diplomacy

Bachelor’s Degree – four years of college

Term – a word
e.g. This term cannot be used in this way anymore. Let me give you a different word.

Grammar

Our product including the laser product – our products include lasers

I was working at Shanghai – I was working in Shanghai
— at vs in: “at” is like a point, it is very specific; a city is too large to be like one point, so instead we use “in” because it has limits we can be inside of

Something didn’t finished – Something I haven’t finished

I still hope it can finish – I hope that I can finish the project

Jiangxi is my hometown – Jiangxi is my home province / My hometown is in Jiangxi

I want to read psychology – I want to study psychology

My mouth is not very good, I am straight person
— I’m not a very good speaker (when I speak, it doesn’t sound like poetry or make people feel strong emotions)
— I talk straight / I speak directly / I speak honestly (you tell the truth, without worrying about whether it will make people mad)