F2F Class Notes 6th May (Tony)

Vocabulary

Engineer

CapexCapital (big money) Expenditure (how much you spent)

underbudget – spent less money than the budget

overbudget – spent too much money, more than the budget

itemize – make things into a list of items

eg: The bill was itemized so we can easily divide it.

  1. Noodles 15 RMB
  2. Beef Curry 900 RMB
  3. (2) oolong tea   10 RMB Each  (20)

Total 935 RMB

+ 10% Tax

+ 15% Tip.

I have a question for you

Speaking exercise

252,000

– 248888


The February Capex for the engineering department was 3112 RMB underbudget. Therefore, the funds necessary will be 248,888, which is less than the original budget of 252,000.

Can you approve this budget?

We were underbudget, so we only need _____.          Instead of ________  (original budget)

We were a little overbudget, the invoice was ____ total.             The original budget was 8,000 less. 🙁

About 3000 underbudget.

Grammar

the new Raffles city

oh, there’s a new one?

yes, it’s in changning

when does it open?

it opened(V.) at the 1st may.    It’s open(ADJ.) now

N.  +   V.  (be)   +   ADJ.         It was big,     They were scared,    It was a bear.(n.)

N.   +  V. -ed

Pronunciation

Budget – Buh Jit

Raffles – Rah fulls

Actual -Ak chu ell