VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

+ focus on making longer sentences with: and / when / what / that / because / but / so / if … – make longer sentences

Remind Leslie to use these when thinking and answering “yes”

you know / ummm let me think / let me see 

yes – yeah / yep / that’s right / yup 

Vocabulary

graduated – bi ye
eg. when I graduated from university

How do you say this word? 

What does this word mean? 

compete (jing zhen) / competition (bi sai)
eg. Apple competes with Samsung for the phone market

I’m on a diet – jian fei
eg. I’m on a diet because I want to lose weight and I have actually lost 5 kgs

calculations / formulas
eg. I have to do many calculations at work in excel because it’s really important for my work.

reputation – what people think about you based on what you did before
eg. I have a good reputation among my students
eg2. In China insurance sales people have a bad reputation

they don’t see the point / there’s no point 

Grammar

the bank have a lot in Shanghai – there are many banks in Sh

ICBC has many offices in Shanghai

why i choose Smart English i think is – the reason I chose SE is because I think…

in the morning Im wake up and I go to shower, then I go to my office and opened the computer and opened the outlook.

in the morning I wake up on the bed at 8 o’clock and I go to shower in the bathroom for 20 minutes, then I go to my office in Pudong by subway and open the computer to start my work and open outlook to check my emails.

I open excel to make a table because we should have a plan to sell our insurance to the banks employees.

I go to the bank to talk about our insurance plan with the banks employees and we want them pay for them so talk with them a lot and talk about how the insurance is good for them.