F2F Class Notes 18th July (Harmony)***

Homework:

Write another story (made up or not) and focus on joining the sentences together with…

Afterwards/later/next/after that/then/following.  **try not to start any sentences with AND.

Therefore, however, whereas….. etc… next class!!!

Review:

Savoury – salty, another option of flavour in addition to sweet

Non-invasive (medical) = a simple procedure, not too much recovery time needed.

Invasive (medical) = more complicated procedure, maybe surgery.  Longer recovery time.

Storytelling:

Tell me about your busy day, walk me through it from start to finish.

Today is a busy day because I got up at 6:40 and after preparing myself I went to work.  And I started to at lobby area at 8:15 to greeting guest.  And assisting guest with their issues, then I went back to my office at 8:45 to have the sales and marketing department morning meeting.  Afterwards I attend another meeting at 9:30, that meeting was quite long it took almost 1 hour to finish.  After the meeting I started my work, I checked my email and watched my schedule to make a days working plan.  At one o’clock in the afternoon I’m working for photo shoot, it’s for the Chinese restaurants new promotion.  After that I go back to office to preparing some P-P-T and checked the social media to response some guests comments, then is the debriefing time.  That’s my whole day.

Carol Edited:

Today is a busy day.  I woke up at 6:40 and I went to work after getting ready. I started in the lobby area at 8:15 to greet guests, and assist guests with their issues.  Afterwards, I went back to my office at 8:45 to attend the sales and marketing department morning meeting.  Then I attended another meeting at 9:30, that meeting was quite long it took almost 1 hour to finish.  After the meeting I started my day, I checked my email and schedule to make a days working plan.  At one o’clock in the afternoon I went for photo shoot, it’s for the Chinese restaurants new promotion.  After that I went back to office to prepare some P-P-T and checked the social media in order to response some guests comments, then is the debriefing time.  That’s my whole day.

**** and— to start new sentences, and join sentences.  —- slowly try to get away from that.

Preparing myself – getting ready (more native)

Edit Together:

Today was a busy day at work.  I woke up at 6:40 and I went to work after getting ready. I started in the lobby area at 8:15 to greet guests, and assist guests with their issues.  Afterwards, I went back to my office at 8:45 to attend the sales and marketing department morning meeting.  Then I attended another meeting at 9:30, that meeting was quite long it took almost 1 hour to finish.  After the second/that meeting I started my day, I checked my email and schedule to make a plan for the day.  At one o’clock in the afternoon I went to manage/oversee a photo shoot, it was for the Chinese restaurants new promotion.  After that I went back to office to prepare a PowerPoint and checked the social media in order to respond to some guest’s comments, then it was the debriefing time.  That makes my day/ that was my whole day.

It’s = it is

P-P-T = chinglish.  North American – always “Powerpoint”

Afterwards/later/next/after that/then/following

Subsequently:  as a result of/ coming after/ following.

Eg.  I made the request, subsequently got what I want.

Consequently:  as a result/following. (more negative) – consequence.

Eg.  I was late for work and consequently my boss yelled at me.

Be known the people in Shanghai – familiar to the people in Shanghai/ the hotel is well known

Targeting for the business customer – the target client is the business customer/ we target…

They contact with each other – they contact each other./ they are in contact.

Doing construction – renovating (implies an upgrade)