F2F Class Notes 28th December (Jesse)

Vocabulary

dishes (plates + bowls) / cutlery (knives + forks)

to think of sth – come up with – create in your mind
eg. During brainstorming, we must think of new ideas

to think about sth – to focus on sth
eg. When I try to sleep, I always think about work

Europe company – European company 

english speaking country – a country where people speak English
eg. I might travel to an English speaking country so I need English for that.

no such sth – we don’t have such things / we don’t have anything like that / we don’t have things like that 

until
eg. I lived in Japan until 2012 = I stopped living in japan in 2012
eg2. I slept today until 10am = I woke up at 10am / I stopped sleeping at 10am

before < > after 
eg. I must finish it before 10am

You have until 2pm to finish the exam = you will stop having time at 2pm

Grammar

reason
for sth (noun)
to do (verb)

english speaking country – a country where people speak English
eg. I might travel to an English speaking country so I need English for that.

remember grammar words in between 2 nouns / 2 verbs. Always try to connect by using grammar.
provide us with sth / provide sth to us
the new round of our security test

let / get / make – rang
let = allow (they want to)
get = ask (you don’t mind)
make = force (they don’t want to)
eg. My mum makes me finish my dinner before she lets me play computer games. After dinner, she gets me to wash my hands.

Phones make our lives more interesting.
Phones let us have a more interesting life .
If i have money, I can have a better life = money lets me have a better life

wo hai mei you zuo – i haven’t done it

hadn’t done it – specific time / past / before another thing 
**haven’t done it – non specific time / past
**didn’t do it – specific time / past

You arrived at 1pm but I arrived at 12:55pm.
Jesse had arrived 5 minutes before…
Jesse arrived 5 minutes before…

have you been to Australia?
no I haven’t

Have you done your homework?
No I haven’t done it

I have been working all day
I have been travelling all year
I have been to Australia

I had a meeting this morning with my boss and member who is working for Loreal APAC but he is from EY. he is my colleague. we talk a lot for this new round of security test and we were very nervous about this because there are 300 websites and we need finish the security test until the first quarter of next year. So, we talk about the resource and the test schedule and we realised there are still some important task we hadn’t finished which would let us delay the test schedule. So, my boss gave us some new task to fix this problems. So I have no time to rest. It will getting very busy until the end of this year.

I had a meeting this morning with my boss and my colleague who is working with Loreal APAC but he is from EY. We talked a lot about this new round of security test and we were very nervous about it because there are 300 websites and we need to finish the security test before the first quarter of next year. So, we talked about the resources and the test schedule and we realised there are still some important tasks we haven’t finished which would make us delay the test schedule. So, my boss gave us some new tasks to fix these problems. So I have no time to rest. It will be very busy during the end of this year.

Pronunciation

time = “eye”