VIP Class Notes (Li)[S]

Vocabulary

graph: a picture that uses dots, lines or bars to show the relationship between two variables 图，图表

foot bath: 泡脚

bad-tempered: gets angry easily

eg. The bad-tempered man has no friends because people find him difficult to deal with.

eg. You should control your bad temper otherwise nobody will want to befriend you.

reserved: not open 拘谨；矜持；内向

eg. He seems like a quiet, reserved man.

eg. Some cultures are known to be more reserved.

get rid of/ease the tiredness

see things in a positive/negative light

they quit/left their job/they resigned from their job

Grammar

Two friends of me 

Two friends of mine 

Use possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, its

*usually you don’t need a noun after a possessive pronoun

eg. That cat is his 

eg. That house is ours 

the  – second time to be specfic/uncountable/singular/plural

a/an – singular/general/the first time

I have a cat. The cat is orange.

He bought a book. The book is from the bookstore.

countable nouns – people/cups/books/cats

uncountable – money/time/pressure/rice/noodles

with uncountable nouns, you can use the 

The money is on the table.

start of the sentence, you can use the 

The child is from my school.

The children are hungry so they went to buy some bread.

and…so…..

I forgot to bring my keys and I left my phone at home so I had to call my mother.

I left my office at 12 o’clock and I will have class at 1 pm so I have to finish lunch at 12:30.

There’s still some problem of sleep. I drink the chinese medicine. I keep having some dream. The Chinese medicine can help me get into sleep quickly, but I still have dream. I’m trying to go to bed earlier. I use the phone before I go to sleep. If I’m really tired and I take a bath, I’ll be awake.

My boss give me very hard task. He’s giving me very high demand. Our company, our business is internet. This year we just develop the app so most of the works in technical work so I don’t have a lot of technical work. But, my work is focused on many details and many small things and he’s very angry and push me.

I think most of work in my job are same this year. Actually, there isn’t any new works for me this year. I’m really uncomfortable because of my boss. But, I think he’s right because he have to give me a lot of task or demand me a lot. But, the problem is if I can accept these things and how can I solve this problem.

Revised: 

There’s still some sleep problems so I drink Chinese medicine. I keep having dreams. Chinese medicine can help me get into sleep quickly, but I still dream. I’m trying to go to bed earlier, but I use the phone before I go to sleep. If I’m really tired and I take a bath, I’ll feel awake.

My boss gives me many hard tasks. He’s very demanding. We are an internet company. This year we just developed an app so most of the job is technical so I don’t have to do a lot of technical work. But, my work is focused on many details and many small things so he’s very angry and pushes me.

I think most of the work in my job is same this year. Actually, there aren’t any new projects for me this year. I’m really uncomfortable because of my boss. But, I think he’s right because he has/must give me a lot of tasks or demand a lot from me. But, the problem is if I can accept these things and how can I solve/handle this problem.