F2F Class Notes (Tony)

Vocabulary

It takes (it uses how much time)     It takes 8 minutes to cook pasta.

I spent (i used this much time)   I spend 1 hour every day going to work.

What have you been doing? (Doing what from the past until now)

How have you been? (How are you, from past until now)

I think I’ve been bad not great those days recently.

I stopped speaking English for a while.

I fly to other cities every month

She spoke Cantonese when she was little.

She has been speaking Cantonese since she was a little girl.

HR – Human Resources

My salary has raise I got a raise

part of – not the whole thing

eg: I did part of the budget.    Why did someone else do the rest?

Review Practice –

I need my friend to give me some water. (What do you need her to do?)

I need an umbrella for my friend.

It cost lots of time. Missing that meeting cost him his job. (The price for missing the meeting was his job)

It take took me 3 hours to finish this .ppt powerpoint

I spend 2 hours every day doing sports.

I don’t handle all budget requests, because some budget my boss he will handle by himself/ I don’t handle all budget requests, because my boss handles some budgets by himself.

I handle 30 percent of the budgets.

No, I don’t didn‘t catch a cold recently

There’s one Chinese superstition is, if we break a bowl we must speak say a phrase to get rid of the bad luck away.

NEXT CLASS: difference between say and speak.