Online Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

Next Class Focus

  • Practice Q&A
  • email organization to improve speed
  • using analogies and examples to gain in clarity during a speech

Homework


Alibaba recently announced that they want to be listed on the HK stock market.
What is your recommendation for an investor on Alibaba.

Speaking exercise

I am in BJ now , I work in an investment company, security investment company . some of my clients are foreigners so I sometimes have to talk with them so I want to practice my oral English. Both oral and written that is why I joining your class. I meet different clients, nearly every months and I traveled abroad to different countries, nearly once or twice every half of the year and what we talk about is the point of view of mine about the stock market. I make suggestions. I give them my suggestion or advice wether to buy or sell which stock is my best choice. something like that.
I am a kind of security analyst.
Usually we talk one on one in a private room.
I can read a lot, I know a lot of vocabulary but I cant use them when I am speaking, I can express some simple meanings or ideas but it is hard for me to express some complicating ideas.
Another problem is really I can’t follow up the speaker if he or she speaks very quickly but I have improve a lot.
I can write English with emails or sometimes I write English reports , easy reports but it will take much time to organize.

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I am in BJ now , I work in an investment company, it is a security investment company / I am in the financial industry .
some of my clients are foreigners so I sometimes have to talk with them so I want to practice both my oral and written  English that is why I joined your class. I meet different clients, nearly every months and I often travel abroad , about/roughly once or twice every half year/ 6 month

I give them my point of view on the stock market.

I make suggestions/recommendations . I give them my suggestion or advice on wether to buy or sell a stock.

And which one is my best choice/ which one I recommend.
I am a kind of a  security analyst.
We often talk one on one in a private room.

I can read a lot, I know a lot of vocabulary but I can’t use the proper words when I am speaking, I can express some simple meanings or ideas but it is hard for me to express some complicated/complex ideas.

Another problem I have is that I can’t follow the speaker if he or she speaks very quickly but I have improved a lot.
I can write emails in English emails and sometimes I write English reports , easy reports but it will take much time to organize my writing.

Speaking exercise


The china mainland stock market and the HK stock market are totally different.
The HK stock market have went done last 6 months since those things happened in HK.
Actually as a violent thing become very more and more popular in HK, the HK economy have been significantly influenced.
Actually I think the GDP growth of HK this year will decrease and that is the first time the GDP growth decreased in the last 10 years so the stock market is a mirror of the economy. The performance of HK stock market is very poor. Fortunately I think the market has got a new trend to go up this month.
Nearly every investor which don’t have confidence with the HK economy have sold their stocks before so the HK market has totally priced in the protest

It is up to which stocks you have at present. There are many kinds of stocks in the HK asian market if it is a company which business is in china mainland I think you can still hold the stock because it’s business won’t be influenced by the HK protests.


The Chinese mainland stock market and the HK stock market are totally different. / don’t really influence one another. Something happening on mainland market will not influence the HK stock market.

The HK stock market has gone down in the last 6 month since the start of the protests.

As protests intensify the HK economy has taken a hit. / has gone a downward trend.

Actually I think the GDP growth of HK this year will be negative/ HK will enter a recession and that is the first time HK will have a negative growth in the last 10 years so the stock market is a mirror of the economy.

The performance of HK stock market is very poor. Fortunately I think the market is on/follows a new upward trend  this month.
Nearly every investor which don’t have confidence/ are confident in the HK economy have already sold their stocks so the HK market has totally priced in the protest.

It depends on which stocks you have at present. There are many kinds of stocks in the HK asian market if it is a company which mostly operates  in china mainland I think you can still hold the stock because it’s business won’t be influenced by the HK protests.

Today we focused on:

Vocabulary

recession (n) : period of negative growth
HK announced that they would enter a recession.

protest(n): movement to show disagreement on something
There are protests in HK.

to intensify : to get stronger
The fire intensified in the night and firefighters had to work harder.

Grammar

have + past particle
have went -> have gone

Pronunciation

recession ( re session)