F2F Class Notes _19th Apr (Harmony)

Homework:

• Write out a small story/ introduction to a period of Chinese history. Bring it in to present to the teacher and then edit it together.  Find new words to make the meaning more clear.
• Bring in words from “TED Talks” that you didn’t understand, make new sentences.

Train of thought:  how we keep track of the ideas that we are trying to express, if interrupted the train will be gone.

The boss have lived in Shanghai for more than 5 years – The boss has lived…

60 points – I understood about 60% of the conversation. 

I want to employee in an international company – I want to be employed at an../ I want to be an employee in….

Public Speaking

• Eye contact
• Story telling
• Add a joke
• Asking questions
• Pay attention to your body language
  • Not too much movement, but not sitting still.

There are many audience who come to listen to the speech – There are many audience members/ There is a large audience who came to listen…..

One of the audience – a person from the audience

We don’t have so many work to do – We don’t have so much work to do/ We don’t have a lot of work to do right now/ We are not busy right now/ Business is slow right now