VIP Class Notes (Ally)[S]

Vocabulary

maddening: (adj) driving sb crazy

clinal: (adj) lin chuang
ie. You’re too clinal in your approach to the problem. –  You should be more open-minded and look at the bigger picture.

indifferent: wu gan/ have no opinions (adj)

brown-nose/suck-up: (v and n)

Grammar

add extra info:
-that
ie. I have so much pressure these days that I cannot sleep well.
-ing
ie. I cannot sleep well, having too much pressure.

would
ie. My baby would cry every time a stranger picks her up. -> my baby cries…

Q: Self-assessment. Strengths vs Weaknesses. How can you improve? Do you want to improve?
A: I think people are changing as they getting older. When I was a little girl, if you asked me this q, I would say my weakness is like I’m shy, I don’t want to talk to people very actively. But as I grew older, I have been improving on this point. So the strengths and weakness are not permanent, they are just characteristics you owned for a certain period of time. I just turned 32 this year, if you ask me this question for now, I would say my strength would be I am an honest and easy-going person and I’m at hearing to my friends and give them some advice. I’m very supportive to my friends and families. I’ve been a very responsible mother to my kids and also to my parents. My weaknesses are I’m not good at get social with people, I don’t like being a brown noser and my husband always said I have a very bad relationship with my mother in law. He always criticize for this point. All this is about the personality-wise, as for my career-wise, I would say I am a very logic-thinking person and very good at execution. I am willing to collaborate with my coworkers. As for my weaknesses, I would say I have a little bit difficulties in handling pressures, because I am having trouble in sleeping for almost one month.

A: I think people change as they get older. When I was a little girl, if you asked me this q, I would say that my weakness is that I’m too shy and I don’t want to talk to people/I had a public speaking problem. But as I grew older, I have been improving on this. So imo, (one’s/people’s) strengths and weaknesses are not permanent, they are just your characteristics for a certain period of time/temporary characteristics that you can grow out of/or improve on. I just turned 32 this year, and if you ask me this question now, I would say that my strength is that I am an honest and easy-going person and I’m good at listening to my friends and giving them advice. I’m very supportive to my friends and family. I’ve been a very responsible mother to my kids and a very good daughter to my parents. However, there are also things I need to work on. For one, I’m not good at socializing, especially with my boss or authority figures.  I don’t like being a brown noser and my husband always says/complains that I have a very bad relationship with my mother in law. He always criticizes me for this. All of these is about my personality/ all of these are personality-wise(adj). As for career-wise/As for in my career, I would say that I am a very logical person and very good at execution. I am a team-player who’s always willing to collaborate with my coworkers. As for my weaknesses, I would say that I have a little bit of difficulty in handling pressure, so much that I am having trouble sleeping for almost one month. 

He makes twice as much as me.
His salary is twice as much as mine.
He makes two times are much as I do.

Pronunciation

willing not “way-ling”, “wi+ling” *ill*

months : th directly to s “slip your tongue” – continuous

screen

green

weaknesses

leisure : lee-sure