F2F Class Notes 24th January (Jesse) [W]

Grammar

i have sth = describing what I have / what is mine (possession)
there is sth there = describing a place has sth
there is a ___ with sth = describing a situation

I come to Smart English. 
1: There is a reason that I come here.
The reason is that I want to learn English.

2: I have a good reason for coming here.
There reason is that I want to learn English.

Vocabulary

can you give me a cup of water? – could you get me some water? / would you mind getting me some water? / yes, some water would be great! 

shelf – ge ceng

why don’t you do that? = i think you should do that… / I wonder why you don’t do that

i think about the reason that my boss doesn’t do sth
i think “why doesn’t my boss do sth?”
i wonder why my boss doesn’t do sth
i ask myself why my boss doesn’t do sth

beforehand < > afterward
nearby  < > faraway 

rhetorical question = a question that doesn’t require an answer
question mark = ?
exclamation mark = !

I have to start work at 8am, and it takes me 1 hour to get ready and 1 hour to get to work, which means I have to get up at 6am.

Where are you from? Well, i was born in Victoria, but I grew up in NSW, which means I’m actually from VIC but my personality is more like NSW.

thing(s) = countable
stuff = uncountable
eg. I have many things in my desk and a lot of stuff that I need to throw away.

Spring Festival is coming and most of my colleagues have been going home because they have to take trains to their home. However, I still need to work as usual, which go to my office in the morning and return home when I finish my stuffs. Sometime I think why my boss doesn’t announce that we can get free days in advance. He really considers that we could work hard when there are on one in the office except a few people. And another reason is that there are nothing to do because the other companies’ employees also go back. If we only sit in office, why not we take a holiday to enjoy the festival in advance.

Spring Festival is coming and most of my colleagues have been going home early because they have to take trains to their hometowns / take trains home. However, I still need to work as usual, which means I go to my office in the morning and return home when I finish my stuff. Sometime I think about / wonder why my boss doesn’t announce that we can get free days in advance / beforehand / earlier. Does he really think that we could / are able to work hard when there is on one in the office except a few people, or something? And another reason is that there is nothing to do because the other companies’ employees also go back / have also gone back home. If we only sit in the office, why don’t we take a holiday in advance to enjoy the festival?