F2F Class Notes 22nd December (Celeste)***

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Vocabulary

base / root – the beginning of a hair where it touches skin

semi-permanent – permanent for a short time

test subject / guinea pig – sb who goes first to try sth

If you are from the Philippines you are Filipino (masculine)/Filipina (feminine).

tour groups – groups of people that go on tours

my dog never stays by my feet/ by my side

landlord / owner

tenant /renters

I never thought I would take English class after growed up. I always felt that English can be easily improved during my daily work. After all , I need to use it everyday.
But the truth is that although I am using English everyday, I can still feel my English is worse everyday.
Why is that? I think there are 2 reasons:
1. When I use English in my work, the vocabulary and sentences are  in a range , which means I’m only familiar with certain of topics I ‘m dealing with everyday.
2. In our company , we  prefer to face to face talk or at least make a call rather than writing emails. Thus I barely write long articles and emails in my work these years.  And for oral English , as most of my colleague are Chinese , I don’t really have a lot of chances to speak English .

I discussed it with my boss during the middle yearly review and I asked for his support. He suggested me to find a training center to learn English again.

After demo of a lot of English training classes, I chose SE as it is fit for me from the way they teach as well as the location is very near my company.

When I am study in SE, I am able to speak and write in English more often.  I think it is great that I start to focus on grammar and pronunciation again . You know people are always underestimate the accuracy of the grammar .  They think as long as the foreigners can understand what we are talking about , the rest are not important. But in SE , my teachers make me understand why grammars are important. In China , we often think grammar is just something we have to remember, but for English people , it is  the way they are thinking . So if the grammar is messed up, it will make English people confused.

My goal for English Study is to become a native speaker and be able to write official and casual article in work and life. I know that I still have a lot of work to do, but I have great confidence that I will make more progress with my teachers in SE!

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I never thought I would take English classes after growing up/ I grew up. I always felt that English can be easily improved especially because I work at an international company /while working. (After all, I need to use it everyday.)
But the truth is that although I am using English everyday, I can still feel my English gets worse everyday.
Why is that? I think there are 2 reasons:
1. When I use English at work, the vocabulary and sentences are work related/based , which means I’m only familiar with certain topics.
2. In my company, we  prefer to talk face to face or at least make a call rather than writing emails. Thus for years, I have barely written long articles and emails at work.  And for oral English, as most of my colleague are Chinese , I don’t really have a lot of chances to speak English.

I discussed it with my boss during my mid yearly review and I asked for his support. He suggested me to find a training center to learn English again.

After a lot of English training demos, I chose SE as it is fit for me from the way they teach as well as the location is very close to my company.

When I am studying in SE, I am able to speak and write in English more often.  I think it is great that I started to focus on grammar and pronunciation again. You know, people are always underestimating the accuracy of grammar. They think as long as foreigners can understand what we are talking about, the rest is not important. But in SE, my teachers help me understand why grammars are important.

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In China , we often think grammar is just something we have to remember, but for English people , it is  the way they are thinking . So if the grammar is messed up, it will make English people confused.

My goal for English Study is to become a native speaker and be able to write official and casual article in work and life. I think first of all, I’m trying to write every email in English and for each time I will write it serious to consider all the grammar and vocabulary. Of course I need to take more classes but it might be a problem because I’m changing my job. For listening, maybe I can see more English movies without subtitles.  I know that I still have a lot of work to do, but I have great confidence that I will make more progress with my teachers in SE!