VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

Next Class Focus

review some irregular verbs  ( https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs-list.htm )

Homework

short writing (use the past tense) What did you do this week?

Speaking exercise

Account director in advertising agency.

we have clients such as Ford, Chevrolet and other car manufacturers.
For is my client now and before I service Chevrolet, Buick, Citroen and WW.
I started 10 years ago

I want to improve grammar and vocabulary
In school when I was 7 years old, middle school teacher teach us the English but when I was start work 10 years I not use the English so I forget much.
But our boss is foreigner from Australia but I am not with manager, my client is Chinese so we talking about job is Chinese.

Last week end in SE learning lesson in Saturday. take a topic in class. We talked about my hobby. In last year my friend take me a journey for used the snowball


I am an/I work as an account director in an advertising agency.

we have clients such as Ford, Chevrolet and other car manufacturers.
I have been working with car brands for 10 years. I worked with Chevrolet, Buick, Citroen and WW in the past. Now I service Ford.

I want to improve my grammar and vocabulary
In school when I was 7 years old, our middle school teacher taught us English but when I started work 10 years ago, I did not use English so I forgot much.
But our boss is a foreigner from Australia/ our boss is Australian but we don’t usually work together. She has a higher position than us. My client is Chinese so we talk about work in Chinese.

Last week end I went to SE to have a lesson on Saturday. We had a topic in class. We talked about my hobby. Last year my friend took me to a ski resort to snowboard.

Vocabulary

to snowboard / to go down a snow slope with a snowboard
I went snowboarding last winter.

ski resort / a place to ski
I went to a ski resort in Japan.

hobby / something you like
My hobby is to read books. I love reading.

habit / something you usually do
My habit is to have a coffee when I wake up. I always drink coffee in the morning.

tall / the height of someone / something
Tom is very tall, he is 180.
The building where I work is very tall, we have 40 floors.

High / (vertical) position
The price is too high
She is my boos, she has a higher position.

to manufacture  – to make (in a factory)
We manufacture 100 cars per day in our factory.

a manufacturer / a maker
marketer / marketing person
teacher / someone who teaches

per / each
1 drink per person.
I drink 2 cups of coffee per day/

car manufacturers  / companies which make cars

handmade / made my hand
This coat was handmade.

we not usually have working communicate. -> we don’t usually work together.

Grammar

talking about time:

I started 10 years ago (point in time)
I have been working there for 10 years. (duration)
It has been 10 years already. (duration)

Using the/a. If it is not a name:
Yesterday I went to the hospital.
Yesterday I went to Huashan hospital.
I went to a car factory yesterday.
I went to Ford’s car factory yesterday.
I visited China/
I visited England.
I visited the United Kingdom.

Regular and irregular verbs

regular verbs: 

infinitive-present / past tense / past particle

add d/ed to make the past tense
e.g.: work / worked / worked
Cook / cooked / cooked
Decide / decided/ decided

Irregular verbs:

speak / spoke / spoken
teach / taught / taught
work / worked / worked
meet / met / met
write / wrote / written
take/took/taken
go / went / gone

Use the past particle with be/have

I worked (past tense) in this company 10 years ago
I have worked ( past particle)  in this company for 10 years
It was decided (past particle)  yesterday.
I wrote (past tense) a report yesterday.
A report was written (past particle)yesterday

using in/on/.. talking about time

In / year/ season / month / moments
In 2015 / in Summer/ In December / In my childhood /

On / Date / day / event
On January 25th / On Monday/ On my birthday.

nothing with last/next
Last week end
Next month

At / hours / time
at 5pm
at the beginning

Pronunciation

Ford