Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Homework

Write about your week (work or life), and talk about some of the good and bad things that have happened. How did you fix the problems? How did you feel?

Vocabulary

problem – sth you fix
question – sth you ask
mistake – when you do sth wrong

what measures did you take to avoid an outbreak?

obsessive – can’t stop thinking about it

compulsive – can’t stop doing it

cure
treat 

ranking
eg. there is a ranking of hospitals in china so we want to rank as high as we can

accompany – more formal – help sb / stop them from being alone
spend time with – just be with sb
eg. I want to spend more time with my kid

in the near periodin the recent period / recently 

deal with – figure out / fix
eg. there’s a problem and I need to deal with it = I need to figure it out and fix it

do some work – just normal

the timeline is nearthe schedule is tight / time is running out / we’re coming to the end of the timeline 

Grammar

i didn’t use english write emails – I didn’t write emails in English / I didn’t use English to write emails

it impact my work severely – it impacted my work severely / it impacts..

if a patient in the hospital – if a patient is / was in the hospital

many worksa lot of work / so much work 

it is a short time for the switch now – it has been a short time since I switched jobs
recently I have been very busy
I have traveled to Japan many times
I have been exercising a lot recently

i miss the period when I am a doctor – when I was a doctor / I miss being a doctor 

Pronunciation

EXecute – ecks seh cute