Demo Class Notes (Xinxin – Mike)

Xinxin

– She works at a pharmaceutical company and rarely has any chance to use English. Has pretty good listening and pronunciation and needs to focus on speaking and vocabulary, grammar. She also wants to improve her email skills, so work-related writing homework would be helpful.

– She is quite shy and can only produce short sentences, work on guiding her to speak more confidently and more complex sentences.

– Suggest role play and small talk in the office setting. General life topics are also okay.

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F2F: 2

Writing: 2

Talk more about the differences and similarities between you and your sister.

Vocabulary

industry (n) 行业
i.e Which ~ are you in?

foreigner (n) 外国人

position （n） 职位

balcony (n) 阳台

commute (v) – commuting (n) 通勤
i.e I spend 2 hours on commuting everyday.
i.e I commute 2 hours everyday.

flexible (adj) 灵活的

context (n) 上下文，语境

Grammar

In English

I changed my job a month before
I changed my job a month ago

Organization change, 
Change in the organization

I have worked for this company 2 years, but the organization was changed one month before, so my position is cancelled, so i find a new job,
I have worked for this company for 2 years, but the organization was changed one month ago, so my position was cancelled, so I found a new job.

I have worked for this company 5 years before
I have worked for this company for 5 years.

both companies are …

I should spend 3 hours on the way
I spend 3 hours (on) commuting.

I work for sales, so work is very …
I work for sales, so I have to do a lot of different things. There is no fixed responsibility

always very busy but it very important, I can help sales and do many support for them so it’s very interesting.
I was always very busy but it’s very important, I can help sales and provide support to them so it’s very interesting.

Most time we will overtime and the income is low,
most of the time, we will work overtime, and the salary/pay is low

we are come from Zhejiang Province
we come from Zhejiang Province
we are from Zhejiang Province

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