F2F Class Notes (Tony)

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Next Class: Sentence Construction

https://www.learnenglish.de/grammarpage.html

Homework

Read the article and write a short summary about it. Read this to the teacher then have them read the article.

http://www.51voa.com/VOA_Special_English/alex-honnold-first-person-to-free-solo-climb-el-capitan–75437.html

Vocabulary

I didn’t get around to absorbing the culture more.

I didn’t have the sense to get into the culture when I was there.  (Sounds a little too critical)

I work in a bank that’s why my day to day job involves a lot of English writing, sometimes I need to attend meetings which are conducted in English, so that’s why I’m here, especially the way I speak, to be more persuasive and make a better argument.

I work in lujiazui in pudong, I work in a bank, my role is a controller like an analyst, I will evaluate financial strength or credit profiles of companies.

I’ve been a teacher at SmartEnglish in Shanghai for 9 months.

I’ve been a financial controller at HSBC in Shanghai for three and a half years.

get around to – eventually do

eg: I’ll get around to doing the yard work sometime this summer.

elevator pitch – to pitch an idea in the time it takes to ride an elevator.

eg: I gave my boss an elevator pitch about a financial plan.

British – Have you got?  (a car)

American – Do you have?  (a car)

Grammar

The

  1. Only one of those things, and it is not a name.   Unless THE is part of the name.   The Great Wall, The Grand Canyon. The Christmas.      Example:    The president of the company.   The best…   The (superlative) biggest, smallest, most populated.
  2. For reference/context, both parties know which one you are talking about.  Give me the stapler. The girl who gave you that thing.

A

1. Any single one.    I need to find a girlfriend.   (any girl, this guy is desperate)

2. With Countable noun.      Give me an egg.   Give me egg. (caveman)      An – with vowels.

Don’t use them:

1. When you specify the number.    Give me two eggs.     There were three presidents in here this morning.

2. Uncountable nouns

3. With a name.

4. When it is specified:  Last month’s report.    This week’s data.     Exception:   The data from last week.

Pronunciation

What do you think – Whaddya think.