F2F Class Notes 27th July (Harmony)

Review:

Sequel:  after the original story.

How do you take your coffee? = how do you like your coffee prepared.

• Black/white
• Just milk
• Double double
• Regular: one milk, one sugar.

My surface is very light weight, which is a benefit for me because I have to carry it everywhere.

I think the smart English is benefit to me because I think it can help me to be a native speaker – I think Smart English is beneficial/ is benefitting me because…..

Original:

It is an accident that my schedule is
messed by your assistant because she made a wrong reservation for another
client. However, I still arrived at here in time, so I took a coffee in
Starbucks for myself, and then, I found that I could not find Wifi. It is an
unbelievable that the café is not able to provide Wifi. It is a standard for
café to offer Wifi for their customers, isn’t it? If the café can not provide
it, how it will attract customers to come in.

Edited:

There was a mistake that my schedule was
messed up by your assistant because she made a wrong reservation for another
client. However, I still arrived here on time, so I bought a coffee at
Starbucks for myself, and then I found that I could not get onto Wifi. It is an
unbelievable thing that the café is not able to provide Wifi. It is a standard for
cafés to offer Wifi for their customers, isn’t it? If the café cannot provide
it, how will it/they attract customers to come in.  Eg.  If the café cannot provide it, how will customers be attracted?

Eg.  I tried to find a table inside starbucks/  I wanted to enjoy my coffee in/at starbucks.

Accident – usually is more serious.

Mistake – not deadly.

Messed (extremely native): that’s super weird.

Eg.  My old co-worker married a woman in China who he only knew for 1 month.  And she doesn’t speak any English.

Lex:  That’s so messed!

Messed up – a mistake.  / screwed it up.

Eg.  She messed-up the schedule.

Eg.  I messed up my project.

Eg.  I will arrive at the airport at 3pm.  (you’re not there now.)

Eg.  I will arrive at the school at 11:20am. (you’re not there now)

Eg.  I arrived at the airport at 3pm.

Eg.  I arrived here at 3pm.

Eg.  I got to the airport at 3pm.

Eg.  I arrived at 11:20. (you’re here!)

Eg.  I arrived here at 11:20.

I came to here – I came here/ I am here.

I had a coffee at starbucks.

I sat in/at starbucks to drink my coffee.

I bought a coffee at starbucks.

How will it work?/how did it?/where did it?/ how was it?/ how was that?