Open F2F Class Notes_26th May (Harmony)

It’s been forever since I’ve seen you!

How have you been?

good/ I have been good.

Review:

Article:  a short piece of writing (like news)

was wrote by a few days ago – a few days ago I wrote the article

about the work I doing these days – I am doing these days

spreadsheet:  any sheet that has a lot of information on it, usually excel

Do you like working on computers? = do  you like to use computers?

pavement =  where to walk (english, Australia, Ireland etc.)

sidewalk = (American) where to walk, lifted from the ground (but it could be made of pavement)

fast train/high speed train/bullet train

maglev:  the magnetic train that goes very fast (goes to airport in Shanghai)

hassle:  annoyance, or work, inconvenience, bother.

eg.  Going through security at the airport is a lot of hassle. 

eg.  My daughter always hassles me to give her candy. 

fall apart:  to break into smaller pieces.

Original:

In these days, I was working on a big file which referred to many date. I downloaded the data sauce from the system which included the prior year’s data, the budget data and this year’s data, and then consolidated these date. The capacity of the file was about 30M, and it wasted a lot of time to open and save. If I wanted to complete the file correctly, I needed to master many excel formulas, and had enough patience and careful. This afternoon, when I completed the file, it gave me a sense of achievement.

Edited:

In these days, I was working on a big file which referred to a lot of data. I downloaded the data source from the system which included data from the prior year’s, the budget, and this year, and then I consolidated them. The capacity of the file was about 30M, and it wasted a lot of time to open and save. If I wanted to complete the file correctly, I needed to master many excel formulas, and have patience and be careful. This afternoon, when I completed the file, it gave me a sense of achievement and I felt successful.

capacity (kah – pa – city)

sauce: something to dip food into, like ketchup.

source:  the place where it came from originally.

eg.  We went to the rivers source and drank the clean water.

prior:  before

eg.  Prior to harmony coming to Smart English, everything was boring.

eg.  Prior to having children, life was easy.

consolidate:  to put all together, to connect things together, to compile. 

eg.  I consolidated all of the information into one excel spreadsheet. 

capacity:  the maximum amount sth can hold.

eg.  The capacity of the elevator is 6 humans. 

eg.  The capacity of my phone is 32G.