VIP Class Notes (Raph)[W]

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Vocabulary

Oversight (n): 1- responsibility for a job or activity and for making sure it is being done correctly. (v: Oversee)
E.g.: Who has oversight of genetic testing?
E.g.: He was appointed to do the oversight of the entire project.
E.g.: As marketing manager, her job is to oversee all the company’s advertising.
E.g.: We’ve just appointed a coordinator who will oversee the whole project.

Overlook (v): 1- to fail to notice or consider something or someone.
E.g.: I think there is one key fact that you have overlooked.
E.g.: No one will be overlooked when we select players for the team.

Moderator (n): 1- someone who tries to help other people come to an agreement:
E.g.: An independent moderator should be appointed to oversee the negotiations.

Throb (v): 1- If a part of your body throbs, you feel pain in it in a series of regular beats:
E.g.: His head throbbed, and his body ached.
E.g.: The throbbing pain in his leg was becoming unbearable.

The period (.) i
Question mark (?)
Exclamation point (!)
Semicolon (;)
Colon (:)
Parentheses ( ( ) )
Apostrophe (‘)
Quotations marks (“ â€)
Slash (/)
Hyphen (-)

Hear or listen (to)?

‘Hearing’ is an event; it is something which happens to us as a natural process. ‘Listening’ is an action; it is something we do consciously.
Compare:

Hearing is an event.

Listening is an action.

Suddenly I heard a noise. Someone was in the garden.

Did you hear the thunder last night?

[on the phone] The line is very bad. I can’t hear you.

I listened very carefully to what she said and wrote it all down.

Do you listen to the radio in bed?

George! Listen to me! I have something important to tell you.

Sometimes we can use either hear or listen to, depending on whether we want to emphasise the event or the action:

Did you hear that interview with David Beckham on the radio yesterday? (emphasis on the event)

Did you listen to that interview with David Beckham on the radio yesterday? (emphasis on the action)

I love hearing/listening to the sound of falling rain.

We don’t normally use hear in the continuous form. We often use hear with can:

[on an internet phone call]

I can hear you really clearly.

Not: I’m hearing you really clearly.

Writing exercise

Original:

Hi Bobby and Kyra,

May we have your feedback on both items?

For the cooler, our supplier urgently need your advice to know what to do next. If the original quantity cannot be kept, our supplier will need to communicate with Fidlock and TPU fabric factory to see if they can accommodate with the quantity change and they may need to requote.

As for the tumblers, is there any updates for POs? Bass Pro’s order will be shipped in the end of March. The supplier would like to know if they should start the final assembling and packing processes for Cabela’s as well if you would also like them to ship around the same time.

Thank you!

Edited: 

Hi Bobby and Kyra,

May we please have your feedback on both items?

For the cooler, our supplier urgently needs your advice to know what to do next. If the original quantity cannot be kept / maintained, our supplier will need to communicate with the Fidlock and TPU fabric factories to see if they can accommodate the quantity change. I do advise you that they may need to requote.

As for the tumblers, is there any updates for POs? Bass Pro’s order will be shipped in the end of March. The supplier would like to know if they should start the final assembling and packaging processes for Cabela’s as well, which should happen ASAP, if you would also like them to ship around the same time.

Thank you!

Grammar

Dash Vs Hyphen 

Two other common punctuation marks are the dash and hyphen. These marks are often confused with each other due to their appearance but they are very different.

A hyphen is used to join two or more words together into a compound term and is not separated by spaces. For example, part-time, back-to-back, well-known.

A dash is used to separate words into statements. There are two common types of dashes: en dash and em dash.

  • En dash: Slightly wider than a hyphen, the en dash is a symbol (–) that is used in writing or printing to indicate a range or connections and differentiations, such as 1880–1945 or Princeton–New York trains.
  • Em dash: Twice as long as the en dash, the em dash can be used in place of a comma, parenthesis, or colon to enhance readability or emphasize the conclusion of a sentence. For example, She gave him her answer — No!

Pronunciation

Cracked: /krækt/

Hippopotamus: /ËŒhɪp.əˈpÉ‘Ë.t̬ə.mÉ™s/

War: /wÉ”Ër/

Wore: /wÉ”Ër/

Were: /wÉË/

Says: /sɛz/