Demo Class Notes ( Aaron – Tibo)
Aaron
He is a marketing manager in a pharma american company.
- Priority is to improve spoken English related to presentations (roleplay on presentations / business meetings / graph introductions)
- Improve understanding and speed in more casual conversations (having casual discussion at the beginning of each class / using week in photos from CNN)
- Write down pronunciation mistakes and explain them
- Work on business emails
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F2F: 2
Writing: 2
Speaking exercise
My name is Aaron and I was born in Guandong province. It is a famous historical city.
Now I work in an American pharma company as a marketing manager.
My objective for English I want to improve my oral speaking because I have many presentations and also I … -> to improve my oral English / to improve my spoken English
every month I have a global meeting with my colleagues and need to introduce our business progress in China / need to report on our progress and sometimes I need to give / deliver some reports to my boss, he is American and sometimes he suddenly asks me a question and I have no idea about his question / I find it hard to answer directly
and need to take some seconds to think about it. / I have blanks in the discussion
I want to find a good teacher to help me improve my English and my spoken English and work with me on effective method to improve my English in a short time.
the public speaking is another important social skill
On Nov 7 I also have another important report to our global marketing. Also we have innovation sharing topics they are set on Nov 25.
The key issue is vocabulary and how to structure my wording to express all the key points about my PPT. / and my syntax when I explain a ppt
It is hard to well describe my ppt to my boss.
I can speak 10 sentences to introduce the ppt but transfer to English and only 2-3 sentences. -> I can find a lot of things to say about the ppt in Chinese but move to English / switch to English and I have much less to say
at the beginning it was a little not comfortable but now my feeling is ok. -> it was not so comfortable / at the beginning I did not feel comfortable with presentations
In my daily work, 99% of my emails are written in English.
He asks me daily questions but I don’t have many experience or some frequency sentences in my mind so I can’t rephrase immediately to speak yp. -> he asks me life related questions but I don’t have much experience or some frequent answers ready / or some usual answers ready.
I can reply to him how was my weekend …
1 years ago I wrote in Chinese and translated to English but now 50% of the time I can write in English directly but I find that there are always difficulties in my writing because I use English in Chinese thinking. -> I tend to use a Chinese syntax
The emails are not so urgent
I find my listening skills are not so good, if you set a background and then ask a question it is more difficult. / if it is not a direct question it is hard for me to understand
Vocabulary
to compress (v) to make smaller / to put pressure on
I will compress the files in a zip and send them by email
to deliver (v) give orally
I delivered a presentation in front of the whole office on the new Covid safety measures
syntax (n) the rules on how to build sentences
I have English syntax issues
Super bowl (n) American football biggest annual match
I watched the super bowl yesterday
Pronunciation
college
colleague
written
complex
compress
month
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