VIP Class Notes (Phil)

Today we focused on:

talked about jobs and society

Vocabulary

pace of life – speed of their life

People in Shanghai have a quick pace of life

recruitment agency – 

recruitment consultant- 

job hunter – a person looking for a job

(high/low)social status- position/place in society

Their family has a high social status

go bankrupt –  company (person)closes because no money

some companies during COVID 19 went bankrupt

mortgage – bank loan for a house/ apartment

I need a mortgage to buy a house

to be fired/sacked – when the company don’t want a person to work because of poor performance

He was fired by my company because he received a lot of PIPs

to be laid off/ made redundant – when the company doesn’t have enough money and people have to leave

The company was sorry it had to lay off a lot of employees.

redundancy/ severance – the money you receive when laid off/ made redundant

to resign – a persons own choice to leave a company

I found a new job so I resigned from my company

give notice – to tell the company you are leaving.

high turnover – a lot of people leaving a company

Grammar

Many (negative, question form)

outside there are not many people

how many people are outside?

a lot of ( positive sentence)

there are a lot of people outside

Little ( use with uncountable nouns)

A little sugar

a few ( use with countable nouns)

a few bottles

Homework

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.