F2F Class Notes March 29th (Ben)

Vocabulary

How have you been? = 你最近怎么样

I’m good / I’m fine.

I’m not very good / I’m not that good.


national = state-owned

a power bank 充电宝

Grammar

How about = ….吧

How about dinner tonight?

How about we go somewhere tomorrow?


to get = to become

The weather is getting/becoming warmer


My first position was sales assistant.

My first job was (working) as a sales assistant.

I work for (in/at) a company.

Non-Standard Bearing Manufacturing Corporation


It can be something (= something funny, or difficult, or special, or strange, or intensive)

Working in a bank can be something.

Raising children can be something.


Let’s get back on track 言归正传 (after a digression)

Pronunciation

science = SAA – yuns

zone [zoʊn]

zoo 动物园 [zu]

a Jew = joo [dʒu]

methods [meθədz]

metal 金属

mental 精神的

melting pot 大熔炉

max 最高的

mix 融合

American

insect 昆虫

section [‘sekʃ(ə)n]

What department of your company do you work in?