VIP Class Notes (Lily) [R/S]

Homework

write about “would you want to work for a private company?”

Pronunciation

colleagues= co leegs
then = zen
measure= me schure
bonus= bo nus
government= go vern ment
permission = per mi Shen

world= were old
the, this, they= de, dis, day
to=two=too

Vocabulary

1.state- owned enterprise = working for the country
ex: have you ever worked in a state-owned enterprise?

2. office politics= “things going on between colleagues”
ex: There’s no office politics in SE, because we don’t really see each other.

3. mayor= the head of the city

Speaking exercise

I don’t like the company’s culture. It’s very complex between colleagues. Every company has a KPI, in the end of the year, your boss will measure KPI and then give you bonus. But it’s unfair usually. Even you work harder and contribute a lot to the company, you cannot get good bonus.

Revised

I don’t like the company’s culture. It’s very complicated between colleagues. Every company has a KPI, at the end of the year, your boss will evaluate/assess the KPI and then give you bonus. But it’s usually unfair usually. Even if you work hard and contribute a lot to the company, you cannot get good bonus.

Reading

Squeaky was a little gray mouse, who lived with his mother in a dark hole in a cellar. One day he came running to his mother. He was so frightened that his tail shook. Oh Squeaky, said his mother, what has happened? why do you shake so? Mother, answered Squeaky, I have been out to see the world. I was tired of staying in our little dark home, So I went to the barnyard. There I saw a beautiful animal which looks a little like me.

Looks like you, said mother mouse.