Online Class Notes (Ally)
Writing exercise
Outline for talk with team leader:
- Ask for: promotion (reasons?)
- Discussion: Targets/Objectives/Kind of work valuable to the team and client/ coverages (summaries of content)
- Ask for: help (how to use your language)
Vocabulary
legion: 军团
trivial: 微不足道
meager: 微薄
dodged a bullet: narrow escape from a bad thing
in retrospect: 回看
on good terms: currently are you guys still nice to each other
trolling around: chilling around doing nothing
Speaking exercise
to the moment, I left the work I’m currently doing
At that moment, I already left the work I was currently doing
the culture makes me a little bit suffering (n)
the culture makes me suffer(v) a little bit.
It’s a suffer to see you fail.
It’s a suffering for me to see you fail.
I should go
I should’ve went./gone.
some of my mind cannot express to the interviewer
I cannot express my ideas completely to the interviewer.
.. hit me = suddenly I realize something. ie.) I went to see my ex and it suddenly hit me that he is so ugly.
Exactly my point.
how to rephrase it
how to phrase it
I talked to her lots of times, not very big progress
I talked to her lots of times, but without much progress
characteristics of the job is flexible hours
flexible hours is part/is one characteristic of the job
it’s not very you can control your working time
it’s not that/like you can control your working time (noun phrase)
talk with her that …
- Ask for: promotion
- Discussion: Targets/Objectives/Kind of work valuable to the team and client/ coverages
- Ask for: help
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