VIP Online Class Notes (Nick) [S]

Work on upgrading vocabulary to make it clearer.

Either:
Write about your industrial design project; OR
Prepare to do a speaking about it.

Vocabulary

Paragraph – a part of something written, usually between 3 and 10 sentences.

ABC – “American-born Chinese”
[Nationality]-American – a person who is American by nationality, but who also has family ties to another country, or continent
e.g. Chinese-American
e.g. Korean-American
e.g. African-American
e.g. Nigerian-American
e.g. Italian-American

Colony – an area controlled by a country, but which isn’t part of that country
e.g. Hong Kong was a British colony, as was Australia, South Africa, parts of the United States, Canada, etc.

“The Sun never sets on the British Empire.”
— An old phrase used by the British.

Navy – military who work on ships, on the sea
e.g. The British Empire was so large because it had a very strong navy.

Logographic – a system of writing that uses characters instead of letters; it expresses meaning, not sound
Alphabet – a system of writing that uses sounds

Present – to show someone something in a presentation; more formal

Join vs. Attend – to join is to become part of a group that is doing something; to attend is to go see the work that other people have done
e.g. We joined a Wednesday-evening basketball group (we are going to go every Wednesday and play with them)
e.g. We attend the Wednesday-evening basketball games (this probably means that you only go to watch)
e.g. We attended a concert last night (we didn’t play in the concert, we just went to listen)

Grammar

There is a black people – there is a black person
— Be careful with using “black,” because some people will think it is offensive to call someone black. A safer word is probably “African-American.”
e.g. There is an African-American in our group.

Do you think that Chinese is the most hard language? – Do you think that Chinese is the most difficult/hardest language?

Between “need” and another verb, you need to have “to.”

Don’t use “for” before describing “how many times”
e.g. I went to the gym three times this week.

I think I’m a little bit busy. After the conference I have lots of work need to do. I need write many reports about the conference and talk to my boss, because he is planning the next conference. Our company just joined the conference, but they want to know the numbers for the people like what product so they can change our own. My boss told me he wants to hold our/a conference on 2020 in some place, but not in China. He joined so many conference or the meetings in China, but he want to hold his own conference in another country. But he’s not travel for many times in a year.

I think I’m a little bit busy. After the conference, I had lots of work I needed to do. I needed to write many reports about the conference and tell my boss about them (what) / present them to my boss, because he is planning another conference. Our company just attended the conference, but they want to know how many people attended and what they thought of the product(s) presented the numbers for the people like what product so they can improve our products. My boss told me he wants to hold our own conference in 2020 in some place, but he doesn’t want it to be in China. He attended so many conferences and meetings in China, but he wants to hold his own conference in another country. But he doesn’t travel for many times in a year.

Pronunciation

Statistics – stuh – tis – ticks