F2F Class Notes (Tony) [W]

Do a speaking practice.

Tell a story, real or fake.

Try to use words or grammar from the notes.

Grammar

she showed us around her hometown

without their allowance permission

enjoy in – find joy in your work

there’s too many cooks in the kitchen – too many bosses, too many people making decisions

eg: At my last job there was too many cooks in the kitchen.

statue – like a person, or anything, usually made of stone.

eg: Everyone knows “The Statue of Liberty.” It’s that huge statue of a woman in the water next to New York.

facial expression – the shape of your face, that shows how you feel or what you are thinking

eg: Did you see his facial expression? I think he is not happy.

pose – how you hold your body, in what shape, usually for photos

eg: My friend did a stupid pose for the photo. She is pretty funny.

eg: The statues have different poses.

flood (V) (N) –

eg: There was a typhoon in Xiamen. But the city didn’t flood. (V)

eg: I was in Beijing for one of the biggest floods. (N)

tornado – wind moving in a very fast circle, dangerous

eg: There’s a place in America that has a lot of tornadoes.

Cantonese – Guang Dong Hua

eg: I tried to learn some Cantonese. But it is very difficult to pronounce.

My second job was completely different from my first one . I became a manager assistant and my main duty was to assist manager in many programs. The company of my second job was set up to invest and build the Chinese Celadon Town in LongQuan where was famous for its celadon and swore. There would have many programs in the Celadon town such as a hotel, a sport park, a celadon industrial park and so on , and we planed to complete the construction of the town in five years. When I was in the company, it had been set up for just one month. I thought it was so excited to grow up with a new company and a town then. So although I was busy and even hardly had extra time to have a break on the daily work, I still was devoted myself to the heavy work and really enjoyed in.But when more and more people said that I looked so tired and I found my boss always asked me to do more and more work what was completely not matching my salary , I started to think of quitting my job.

My second job was completely different from my first one . I became a manager‘s assistant and my main duty was to assist the manager in many programs. That company was set up to invest and build the Chinese Celadon Town in LongQuan which was famous for its celadon and swords. There would have been many programs in the Celadon town [ such as / like ] a hotel, a sports park, a celadon industrial park. We planned to complete the construction of the town in five years. When I was in the company, it had been set up for just one month. I thought it was so exciting to grow up with a new company and a town at that time. So although I was busy every day and even hardly had extra time to have a break on the daily work, I still was devoted myself to the heavy workload and really enjoyed it. But when more and more people said that I looked so tired and I found my boss always asked me to do more and more work which was completely not matching my salary or part of my job description. I started to think of quitting my job.