VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [S]

Next Class Focus

have more conversation and practice longer sentences and discuss prepositions and the feeling

Vocabulary

agent – zhong jie
eg. I use an agent to find an office for my company

recommend – tui jian
eg. the agent recommends the offices to me

km = kilometers 

exercise – jian shen
gym – jian shen fang

ergonomic – a healthy, comfortable, safe environment for working / studying
eg. big companies think the ergonomics of their offices is really important

anything – 0 +
eg. Do you want anything?
No thanks = 0
Yes please, 1 cup of tea = 1
Yes please, 5 cups of tea = 5
something – 1 +
eg. There is something in my coffee = 1 or more things
everything – 100%
eg. they have everything I need = all things

Grammar

here / there / home 
eg. I am here / I am there / I go home / I am home

work / school / hospital / home 
eg. I go to work / I go home / I go to school / I am in hospital / I go to hospital

the – places 
the bank / the subway / the airport / the bus stop / the park / the library / the mall / the shops / the office

a / the / my / …. restaurant / cafe / place / building / ….


most of the time
a cup of water

most people / most of the people in the world

most of the time – da bu fen shi jian
most of time – 1000000000 years

it is just the 2 of us here today.

Writing exercise

Yesterday I contacted the salesman to look the office WeWork. I told him that my first request was the office must near subway and he had chosen one for me. The public area is very fashion and humanize. There are anything you need when you’re working. There is a big public kitchen and they prepared cups for you if you need.But the workroom is very small like a cage. Most of people like work at the public area.
My college prefer traditional office and he think it’ big and we can put more thing in the office.But I don’t think so, The whole building is 冷清(deserted)and all of us only four people in the big office

Yesterday I contacted the salesman to look around the WeWork office. I told him that my first request was (that) the office must be near the subway and he had chosen one for me. The public area is very fashionable, convenient and comfortable. There is / they have everything you need when you’re working. There is a big public kitchen and they prepare cups for you if you need them / a drink, but the work spaces are / the rooms are / the offices are very small like a cage. Most of people like work in the public area.
My colleague prefers traditional office and he thinks it’s big and we can put more things there / in the office, but I don’t think so. The whole building is deserted / empty and there are only 4 of us in the big office.