F2F Class Notes 16th March (Cricket)

Vocabulary

collaborate– work on something together, come together

eg. I love seeing people collaborate on projects, especially art projects.

Original

Today I received an information from my manager that our Israel colleagues will visit our Shanghai office next week. My manager and I will have a meeting with them next Monday to discuss our operation procedures and some challenges from clients. This is the first time we have a face to face meeting, I think that I have to prepare something about our meeting, like our capacity from Shanghai to Israel, and our current airfreight rate to Tel Aviv.
The most important thing is I have to find out a solution to solve our problems on operation procedure. But I am not very familiar with our daily operation and client information of Israel lane, so I think that I have to study with my coworker who handles our Israel shipment for daily operations. And I have to check with airline company about their capacity and airfreight rate. Then I will made an analysis for all of these information.

Edited

Today I was informed by my manager that our Israeli colleagues will (come and) visit our Shanghai office next week. My manager and I will have a meeting with them next Monday to discuss our operation procedures and some challenges from our clients. This is the first time we have had a face to face meeting. I think that I will have to prepare something for our meeting. In the meeting, we will discuss the airplane capacity from Shanghai to Israel, and our current air freight rates to Tel Aviv.
The most important thing I have to figure out is a solution to solve our operation procedure problems. But I am not very familiar with our daily operations and client information on the Israeli shipping lane. I think that I have to study with my coworker who handles our Israeli shipments for daily operations.  I have to check with other airline companies about their capacity and airfreight rates. Then I will put together an analysis for all of this information.

The man who created the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned of the dangers of the Internet. He described his three main worries about how the Internet is being misused. The first problem is fake news. He said websites and companies are creating fake news just to make money, or to try and change people’s political opinions. He said the danger is that fake news “spreads like wildfire”. The second problem is political advertising. He said adverts are used in “unethical ways” to stop voters from voting or to make them click on fake news stories. His final concern is the misuse of personal data by governments. He said people are killed in some countries because of the websites they visit.

Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989. He said that it had “lived up to [his] vision” in many ways. He said: “I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries.” His letter outlined a five-year strategy to keep his vision alive. He said there were complex problems, and that the solutions would not be simple. He wants to put, “a fair level of data control back in the hands of people”. He also wants to stop governments from looking at our online data, which he said creates a “chilling effect on free speech”. And he wants to fight against fake news and misinformation. He called on all Internet users to help.

Pronunciation

imagined-i-man-jend

boundaries-bound-r-ees

geographic-g-o-graf-ick