Demo Class Notes (Fay – Tibo)

I currently work on MK. I am the IT manager and in my daily work life I need some English to communicate with the global team, the American team.

I was born and educated in SH and I have never been educated abroad so I think somehow it is like the Chinese native. I don’t have any English thinking.
I need to translate the language in my head to say that so I want to Improve mu spoken English and make it more fluent and more English thinking to enhance daily communication and to benefit my work.

If I have prepared for the conversation I can speak out well but if you randomly let me say something I need to organize my language and react for a while.

vocabulary is enough for daily communication but for complex words I need to check the dictionary.

I want to practice some daily life conversation , not just about work.

Maybe it can improve the efficiency because it is a robot and it can work all the time but when we do the testing maybe I will have some questions and we need some human being communication I think it is not just a medical test.

You lose that human touch / emotional connection
I don’t think machines can do art because it is about your thoughts to react on something but robots only have an algorithm they react to presets.
I think it is not sold for art value but for technical relevance or for historical significance.

we will do pressure testing on the server and have monitoring on the performance of our server and the service application.
During 11/11 we will monitor the figures and the performance at the back end of the system to see if there is any issue and if our servers are crashed we will need to fix it and restart it in a short time so normally we will work over the night on 11/11.

I currently work in MK. I am the IT manager and in my daily work life I need some English to communicate with the global team, the American team. / I routinely communicate in English with the global team

I was born and educated in SH and I have never been educated abroad / I never studied abroad so I think somehow English has always been a second language. I don’t think in English / I mostly think in Chinese.
I need to translate the language in my head so I want to Improve my spoken English and make it more fluent / smoother and train my English thinking to enhance daily communication and to benefit my work.

If I have prepared for the conversation I can speak out well but if you randomly ask me about something I need time to organize my thoughts and I need a while before I can react

My vocabulary is enough for daily communication but for complex words I need to check the dictionary.

I want to practice some daily life conversation , I don’t want to only focus on work.

I have normal hobbies like reading and watching movies.
I like novels and something about the universe / science and philosophy.

Maybe it can improve the efficiency . maybe it will result in increased efficiency because it is a robot and it can work all the time / it doesn’t need to rest but when we do the test maybe I will have some questions and we need to communicate with human beings I think it is not just a medical test. / with a robot you lose the emotional part.

I don’t think machines can do art / create art because it is about your thoughts to react on something / it is about depicting your feelings but robots only have an algorithm they react to presets.
I think it is not sold for art value but for technical relevance or for historical significance.

we will do pressure testing / stress test on the server and constantly monitor the performance of our server and the service application.
During 11/11 we will monitor the figures and the performance at the back end of the system to see if there is any issue and if our servers crash we will need to fix it and restart it in a short time   / as quickly as possible so normally we will work over the night on 11/11. 

Vocabulary

superstitious (adj) believing in things giving good/bad luck
I am superstitious so I hate the number 4.

superstition (n)
There are many superstitions linked to numbers in China

to depict (v) to show in a painting / image
This painting depicts the moment of glory of the president

humanoid (adj) having a human appearance
We make humanoid robots because people find it easier to connect with them

physician (n) : someone who has a degree in medicine / doctor
I met a physician for leg reeducation

swab (n) pad
The covid 19 test consists of a mouth swab

pronouncing numbers:

from left to right stop at the coma and say the total unit and repeat as much as necessary

900,500 : nine hundred thousand five hundred

125,250,865 : one hundred twenty five million two hundred fifty thousand eight hundred sixty five

for discounts the logic is the opposite of Chinese :

7折=30% off / a discount of 30 %

25,956.25 : twenty five thousand nine hundred fifty six point two five

x,000 thousand

x,000,000 million

x,000,000,000 billion

x,000,000,000,000 trillion

no s if it is a specific number :
There were two hundred thousand people
there were thousands of people (not specific)

for decimals say point and read numbers one by one

Grammar

first conditional :
if I have more free time I will start a new hobby (talk about something that can happen in the present or future)