VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)[S]

Vocabulary

female = woman

male = man

feminine = woman – adj

masculine = man – adj

e.g. He was a feminine man.

impressive – 令人 印象 深刻

e.g. I knew some female bosses and they were really impressive people.

gossip – 八卦

e.g. Sometimes a little company gossip is interesting like: who’s in a relationship with who, and will this person get fired?

attitude – 态度

e.g. If your boss has a bad attitude, it doesn’t matter — we can choose to have our own positive attitude.

positive attitude = good

negative attitude = bad

character

e.g. Her boss had poor character: she was mean, interested in gossip, and angry!

regardless = “it doesn’t matter” = “it didn’t matter”

e.g. Regardless if the gossip was true or not true, she would tell everyone.

e.g.It didn’t matter  if the gossip was true or not true, she would tell everyone.

lost touch – don’t talk to them anymore

Original

In my last company I thought my manager was strange. She likes some message who told her – about someone’s…For example, A & B have an argument and the reason and she didn’t think the gossip is true or not true. Outside of work – I have a colleague – she was good / play well with somebody – outside of work – they just friend – and the person is a man, so my manager think they are dating they have some romantic connection but they be just good friends. If the gossip is not true, she will say that is true.

Corrected

In my last company I thought my manager was strange. She liked to hear anything about company gossip – about someone’s personal business…For example, A & B would be having an argument and regardless if it was true or not, she would tell everyone. Outside of work – I had a colleague – she had a friendship with a colleague outside of work – they were just friends – and the person was a man, so my manager thought they were dating  or that they had some romantic connection but they were just good friends. Even if the gossip is not true/false, she would say that was true and tell everyone.

In the past, WILL becomes WOULD

Original

In my high school – in senior one we had a basketball match, and my teacher chose some boys to join the match, when the match began all of us was excited and the girls would cheer on the boys . I think it was funny. And finally we got the champion, everyone in my class was so happy, and we went to ate dinner after class. My class and another school. In senior one I think everyone was friendly, but senior two I think they were change. Three I come to Shanghai. Yes it’s difficult, I think the – is difficult for me and my school in SH was far from my home, I lived in school, and I went back home every weekend. My classmates were already became friends. Some is nice to me. My father is live in my hometown. I will not familiar with them – when I came to SH I don’t like Shanghainese — I think they don’t like some people who comes another city including my teacher.

Corrected

In my high school – in senior year one we had a basketball match, and my teacher chose some boys to join the match, when the match began all of us were excited and the girls would cheer on the boys. I thought it was funny. And finally we won the championship/we were the champions, everyone in my class was so happy, and we went to eat dinner after class. My class and another school. In senior year one I thought everyone was friendly, but senior year two I thought they changed. Year three I came to Shanghai. Yes it’s difficult, I think the – was difficult for me and my school in SH was far from my home, I lived at school, and I went back home every weekend. My classmates were already became friends/my classmates had already become friends. Some were nice to me. My mother lived in my hometown. I was not familiar with them – when I came to SH I didn’t like Shanghainese people— I think they didn’t like some people who came from another city/[outsiders] including my teacher.

Grammar

She’s working skill is very good but she usually angry /Her professional skill was very good but she was usually angry

I don’t know why she angry with me / I didn’t know why she was angry with me

When she had a bad mood, she will angry / When she had a bad mood, she would be angry

They have local language / They have a local language

When I first came to SH, I don’t know what they mean / When I first came to SH, I didn’t know what they meant

I told to him / I told him that

When I came to SH I can’t live alone / When I came to SH I couldn’t live alone