VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Use the words from today to write about the good and the bad of your job. How do you manage the pressure? What about your colleagues?

Vocabulary

How are you? / How’re you going? / How’s it going? / How’re you doing? 

5 – Great / really good
4 – pretty good / good / quite good
3 – good / not bad 
2 – fine / OK
1 – not very good / not great

Thanks / Thank you 

And you? / How about you? / What about you?  

en – that’s right / yes / exactly / yeah / that’s it / yep / that’s correct 

what? – sorry? / pardon? / what did you say? 

Vocabulary

ummm / you know / I guess.. / just like – when you’re thinking

episode – 30-60 minutes
season – each year has 20 episodes
series / show – Friends, Modern Family, 综艺节目

job – position / responsibilities / project
eg. I love my job = being a teacher
eg2. It is my job to help you = responsibility
eg3. My boss gave me a job to do = project
work – place / verb / things you do for your company
eg. I go to work to work on my work
eg2. I go to my office to work on some projects
company – organisation
eg. I work for a small company called Smart English

Primary school – primary = the first and most important

organising things / managing your time 

I deliberately separate work and life – you yi de fen kai

Pronunciation

when we were – “w” is like an “o” shape

Yesterday I spent 10 hours to have a telephone with my colleague from the morn to 10 in the evening because we talked about a lot of things which happened during the past 1 month. After the phone I watched 1 episode of a chinese tv show. Today I woke up at 9 o’clock, then i opened my computer because I think out 1 thing that need to tell my colleague about the job of the next week. I need to summarize some data to prepare for the close out of the project I am working on now.

Yesterday I spent 10 hours on the phone / to have a call / on WeChat with my colleague from midday / noon to 10 in the evening because we talked about a lot of things which happened during the past 1 month. After the phone call / after the call I watched 1 episode of a chinese tv show. Today I woke up at 9 o’clock, then i turned on my computer because I thought of 1 thing / something that needed to tell my colleague about the work of the next week / about next week’s work. I need to summarize some data to prepare for the close of the project I am working on now.