F2F Class Notes (Sonia)

Tell me about your work.

I work in a medical devices company as the marketing communication manager. I am responsible for PRODUCING the brochures and advertisements, releasing articles and maintainING our wechat account and arrangING events, ATTENDING exhibitions, selecting vendors, things like that. I like my colleagues they are all very intelligent and nice. about Half and half I would say, because our company is a small one we only have 100 employees in China, compared with your company, but we are a public company. So, actually my role covers the whole Asia, but I don’t have any subordinates that means i shouldhave to/must do anythingeverything. The high position work and also the on hand jobs, so sometimes it makes me frustrated.

*Don’t forget to use verbs before nouns to specify exactly what you did

*remember to use past tense

Pronunciation

r words (speak R sounds harder)

l words

sh sound  (try not to use shh sound in between consonants)

e.g usually=YU JA LI

still( pronounce the L stronger)

Vocabulary

Prioritise:to decide which of a group of things are the most important so that you can deal with them first

e.g how to prioritise all your task is very important especially for big project

correction: How you prioritise

micromanage: to control every part of a situation, even small details

e.g our boss likes to micromanage things that are going on in our company everyday

harmonious (adj) harmony(n)

things like that/and so on/ etcetera/etc. etc

Grammar

How to vs. How you

How to: instruction

e.g How to use this hairdyer

How you: statement [How you(subject)- Opinion]

e.g

How you go to work is none of my business

I don’t care how you go to work

what to do vs. what you do

What you plan to wear tomorrow night would be very important

what to eat?

^question directed at your self (same as: what do I eat?)

Should vs. Have to 

should: obligation you have to do it

doesn’t tell you the final outcome e.g I should go to sleep early

have to: more serious

I have to: almost like a promise similar to MUST