F2F Class Notes (Tibo)

review the pdf : how to read numbers

practice describing graphs

I’m from L’oreal and I come here to practice my English because I transferred the function

I am in the data team and I have chance to attend global meetings so you should listening and speaking / English presentation.

first the words and second fluent

talking about numbers is difficult

timeline / roadmap / blocking points / describe project
not so much . sometimes need to do presentations.

if they speak English I can understood

if the French speak English a little hard for me to understand

My hobby is I like to take pictures and I like to travel and for me the most interesting things of travel is to take pictures of sceneries.

Sony is small and light.
The canon one is a little heavy and when I have a child I need to have my son and a camera it is too heavy.

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I’m from L’oreal and I come here to practice my English because I transferred to a new function / to a new role

I am in the data team and I have the chance to attend global meetings so you should listen and speak / give/deliver English presentations.

my main issues are related to first the words/vocabulary  and second my fluency

talking about numbers is difficult

timeline / roadmap / blocking points / describing projects

not so much/ it is not common . Sometimes I need to do/give/deliver presentations.

if they speak English I can understand

if the French speak English  it is a little hard for me to understand because of their accent

My hobby , I like to take pictures and I like to travel and for me the most interesting thing while I travel is to take pictures of sceneries / landscapes.

Sony is small and light.
The canon one is a little heavy and since I have a child I need to hold my son and a camera and it is too heavy. / since I have a child I find it too heavy if I try to hold both my son and the camera … so I moved to a lighter camera …

Vocabulary

light (adj) : not heavy
macbook airs are light

fluent (adj)
Tom is fluent in 2 languages

fluency (n)
he decided to improve his fluency by taking classes

drone (n) 无人机
I have a DJI drone

accent (n)口音
French people have an accent when they speak English

coma  ,
there is a coma to separate numbers

slash /
you use a slash in fractions

fraction (n） :分数
3/4 is a fraction

specific (adj) precise / 详细的
we decided to increase the budget but we don’t have a specific number yet

vague (adj) not precise 含糊的
He gave a very vague answer when asked how he would save the company

Pronunciation

cc = x

accent

how to read long numbers

start from the left and go until the coma / at the coma you say the number unit and then you repeat the process until the end

x00 : hundred

x,000 thousand

x,000,000 million

x,000,000,000 billion

x,000,000,000,000 trillion

45,160 : forty five thousand one hundred (and) sixty

23,250,475 : twenty three million two hundred fifty thousand four hundred (and) seventy five

and is only used in British English between hundreds and tens , you do not usually use and in American English

you do not use S with numbers when they are specific  / you use S when it is not specific
There were three hundred people at the event
There were hundreds of people at the event

5,240,550.86 :five million two hundred forty thousand  five hundred fifty point eight six

seven eights 7/8

seven eighteenths 7/18

talking about discounts :

it is the opposite of Chinese
7折 = a discount of 30% / 30% off

He bought a computer 20% off during 11/11