Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Read this article, and write down any words you don’t know, or are not very familiar with, or don’t use much. When you come for class next you will summarise the article and use some of these words when summarising. Then we’ll discuss the topic and help you use the vocabulary you wrote down in sentences.

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2106/210627-toxic-workplaces-5.html

last week’s schedule was not too much busy so most time i just contact my client but their work is just ok, so most time i’m just free / i muck around / mess around / do whatever. I have college who can help me some of work they can do and they send to me and i review it, and send to the client. Our target is to find a exactly correct person to fix the client’s topic so their relevant experience is very important for the client so my college should record their experience and match the client’s topic.

last week’s schedule was not too much busy so most of the time i just contacted my clients but their schedule is pretty open too / they don’t have too much work either so most of the time i’m just free / i muck around / mess around / do whatever. I have colleagues who can help me with / do / finish some of my work they can do it and they send it / the results to me and i review it, and send it to the client. Our target is to find an exactly the correct person to fit / meet / match the client’s requirement so their relevant experience is very important for the client so my colleagues should record their experience and match the client’s needs / requirements.

Vocabulary

vaccinate (v) / vaccine (n – medicine) / vaccination (n – process)
eg. I have got the vaccine
eg2. I have been vaccinated
eg3. I think vaccination takes a long time

have you been vaccinated? / have you had the vaccine?

allergies / allergy / allergic (adj) – guo ming
eg. I have an allergy to dust
eg2. I have allergies
eg3. I am allergic to dust

go out to your room – leave the room 

emissions (n) / emit (v) – to go out

the system which is existing in the right now – currently / at the moment / now / presently 

they have get their target with co2 – they have reached their co2 target 

Paris Climate Accord / agreement 

pilot program – test program

controversial – sensitive topic that may cause problems
eg. the bonus system is a bit controversial

Grammar

what is happening on this industry – in this industry 

what is the time? – ji dian zhong
what is time? – ask einstein

Pronunciation

Caribbean – “ka RIB bee yan” / “karra BEE yan”

college – col lij 
colleague – col leeg

launched – “launcht”

initiative – plan / proposal / idea
eg. I came up with a new initiative to fix this problem

incident – neutral thing that happened
accident