Demo Class Notes (Gao Feng – Li)

Vocabulary

mechanical engineer – a person whose job is to deal with the design, construction and use of machines (your job)

COVID-19/pandemic – yi qing

ex. I am a mechanical engineer.

I work for a Japanese company

colleague – people you work with

promotion/n – to get a higher position/rank in work

promote/v

Grammar

for + time

ex. I worked for this company for more than two years.

ex. I studied English for six years.

a/an/the/x 

first time/general/only one– use a/an

after first time/specific/one or more – the

don’t add anything/general/more than one – x

I have a bottle of water. The bottle of water is very cold.

I came to Shanghai in 2006. I studied Japanese at school.

I moved to Shanghai/to Shanghai from Shannxi in 2006. I studied Japanese at school.

I think of Japanese to use English. I study English for job, travel.

I think in Japanese when I speak English. I want to study English for work and travel.

Sometimes my friends come to my home, foreigner friends. We talk Japanese.

Sometimes my foreigner friends come to my home, and we talk/speak in Japanese.

Machine engineer

Mechanical engineer 

I studied English for six years.

Before pandemic I go to India, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore.

Before the pandemic, I went to India, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore

Pronunciation

mechanical – muh-ca-nee-kal

pandemic – pen-deh-mik

Malaysia – mah-lei-see-ya

read – reed

mail – may-yal (short sound)

meal – mee-yal (long sound)

colleague – call-leek