VIP Class Notes (Kyle)

* Has had two classes recently but they are not available on her profile, one with George and one with Jesse. Where are they?!*


transferred to e-Commerce team / sales team

wants to keep going with developing your English skills.

What are the differences between working in the marketing and sales dept.?

Methodologies of different market research, ‘Whats the next campaign?’ 

When we go through a new launch in some innovation, we will check their performance and make improvement.

Tracking the progress of something = check their performance, follow something, particular aspect of something/someone

“you can easily be tracked down” “big data can where have you been, what have you seen, what you have bought”

Big data comes Big Brother. —-> It is a reference a famous novel called 1984, by George Orwell. 

“Big Brother is STILL watching you.”


Vocabulary

Reading Passage from the Dystopian Novel 1984

clocks striking 13 = it is 1:00pm

strike = to hit strongly

to nuzzle = to cuddle

Winston Smith= name, proper noun

Victory Mansions = name of important place, Proper Noun have the first letter Capitalized

gritty dust = dirty air / grungy

depicted = to portray, to show a picture

enormous – very big

ruggedly – rough, tough, and experienced, tough guy

It was no use – its not working / not a good idea 

Electric current – the actual electric energy running in an electric powered item

contrived = it was made a certain fashion, the way it was designed, it refers to the original design of something

captions = a phrase that is connected to a picture, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

coarse – a rough material

blunt- a knife or a blade that is NOT sharp, “to say it bluntly”

spirals – to keep going in circles

simultaneously – to happen at the same time as something else 

ex. Peggy and Kyle simultaneously waved their hands to make a high-five.

scrutinized / scrutiny = judgement of someone’s actions

utopia – Paradise , a very happy place

The balance between thinking and not thinking …. The balance security and freedom.