Online Class Notes (Jesse)

This week most of colleagues were looked forward to work, due to the National Day is coming. But their work efficient didn’t slow down, because our boss already pushed us to pace up the performance forecast.
At the same time, Sep. is our Q2 closing month of fiscal year, so we had a lot of expenses must be submitted before the end of this month, such as trip/entertainment/commute allowance, so I did lots of trivial things, for example, paste invoices…… You know that’s a very carefully task and so troublesome , you have to pickup one by one according to requirements of finance and everyone needs to stated the reason or purpose.
Fortunetly, however I completed this basicly chores and National Day arriving which was looked forward so long time. In the past three days, my wife take my son and me back to her hometown. She has a number of raletives, every day is busy for various party, we eated full and happy. Especially I love it because I’m a single son, so I didn’t experience this kind of happiness atmosphere.

This week, most of my colleagues have been looking / were looking forward to work, due to the National Day is coming. But their work efficiency didn’t slow down, because our boss already pushed us to reach / achieve the performance forecast.
At the same time, Sep. is our Q2 closing month of fiscal year, so we had a lot of expenses which / that must be submitted before the end of this month, such as trip/entertainment/commute allowance, so I did lots of trivial things, for example, paste invoices…… You know that’s a very careful task / that’s a task which you need to do very carefully and so troublesome , because you have to stick the invoices one by one according to requirements of finance and everyone needs to state the reason or purpose.
Fortunately, however I just completed these basic chores when National Day arrived / as National day was arriving which I looked forward to for a long time. In the past three days, my wife took my son and me back to her hometown. She has a number of relatives, and / so every day is busy for various parties, and we ate a lot so I am very full and happy / we were all very full and happy. Especially I love it because I’m an only child, so I didn’t experience this kind of happy atmosphere.

Vocabulary

travel / tourist – travel as a tourist / travel for a holiday / travel for tourism 

pace = speed
eg. the pace of the turtle is less than the rabbit

reimbursed – you pay and then your company gives you the money
eg. I am reimbursed for the trips i take

countryside < > city

How has the internship been going? / How has your trip been going?

What have you been doing in China since you arrived?

What do you think about Chinese food? / Do you have a favorite chinese food?

From your experience, what’s the difference between living in China and Indonesia? / Can you imagine living in China?

Do you have any plans for the rest of the night? / Do you have any plans for the rest of the week? / rest of your holiday?

Do you think you’ll miss Malaysia when you leave?

Grammar

i think have a clean city – I think it’s a clean city / it’s very clean there / there are many clean places there

because + sentence
because of / due to + noun (no sentence)

Why were you late today?
I was late because it is raining (sentence) 
I was late because of the rain / the weather (noun) 

I am happy because of national day coming
I am happy because national day is coming 

you will don’t have the holiday – you will not have the holiday

he prevents / stops / prohibits us from submitting it until we have achieved the target

I am not happy
You will not be happy
You will not do it
You can not do it

I have a pen and I use it every day.
I have a pen which I use every day.

National day arrived which I looked forward to.
National day arrived and I looked forward to it.

The taxi was arriving and I was looking at my phone = As the taxi was arriving, I looked at my phone / I was looking at my phone 

I have class for 1 hour = I spend 1 hour having class
How long do you sleep for every night? I sleep for 8 hours every night