Online Class Notes (Ally)

Writing exercise

Outline for talk with team leader:

  1. Ask for: promotion (reasons?)
  2. Discussion: Targets/Objectives/Kind of work valuable to the team and client/ coverages (summaries of content)
  3. 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 …

  1. Ask for: promotion
  2. Discussion: Targets/Objectives/Kind of work valuable to the team and client/ coverages
  3. Ask for: help