Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Vocabulary

throat / lung infection

he got a cold

he got a drip of antibiotics

this performance was in his projections / he predicted this performance / he expected this performance

he’s not satisfied with the performance

to be able to / whether / check all nouns and adjectives / during

In the past week, I was very busy as usual for prepared for D11. The differences were the pre-sale period had been beginning on Monday, and our overall performance was just so so, only have a little bit growth.
During this week, only one thing could motivate me, that was we held a kickoff meeting with our core staffs and mainly distributors. As the person whom responsible for D11 campaign this year, I made an opening speech to introduce our strategies and tactics in this conference. Whether feedback from customers or myself feeling, that was very successful for my presentation, especially I received encouraged from my big boss, who sent a message to me to express his positive attitude for my strategies.

In the past week, I was very busy as usual preparing for D11. The differences were the pre-sale period started on / has been going since Monday, and our overall performance has just been so so, and we only have a little bit of growth.

During this week, only one thing could motivate me, that was we held a kickoff meeting with our core staff / employees and main distributors. As the person whom is responsible for the D11 campaign this year, I made an opening speech to introduce our strategies and tactics in this conference. Based on both the feedback from customers and my own feeling, it was a very successful presentation, and I even received / and more importantly I received encouragement from my big boss, who sent a message to me to express his positive attitude about my strategies.

Grammar

My boss encourages me
My boss gives me a lot of encouragement
My boss is encouraging / boring 

if + weather = unknown things / options 
If it rains, I will stay home
If it rains or my son is sick, I will stay home

Whether it rains or not, I will go out

main = adj
mainly = adv
eg. I mainly drink coffee in the morning
eg2. Coffee is my main drink in the morning

I saw a man running in the park
I saw a man who was running in the park

I am very busy having class
I am very busy with class
I am very busy because I have a lot of classes

I have been living in Japan for 2 months

I am living in Japan

2:20PM = now

I had class at 12PM, and 1 PM today. Paul called me at 1:30PM. I had been having class for 1.5 hours when Paul called me.

I have done
I have been doing
I had done
I was doing
I am doing

Have you been to Japan?
Yes I have been to Japan.

When did you go last week?
I went many times

have done = experience / already?
did / went / ate / drank / taught = what past time? / specific past time
do / go / have / see / take / bring / give / look – no time / time is not important

Had you had class before we started class today?
Had you taught any students before we started today?