Online Class Notes (Jesse)

The 3 days will have heavy rain. I am going to my colleague’s home and play with her. I am going to see my colleague and play with her and maybe I will talk with her and do some cook. Maybe I will go out with her and shopping and go to market and shopping! Maybe we can look at the clothing and maybe if I like the clothing I will buy it. I will work at home because I have lots of work and I haven’t finished my work.

It will rain heavily during the 3 day holiday. I am going to see my colleague and spend time with her / hang out with her and maybe we will talk and cook but I plan to go out and do some window shopping in the market, but if I like the clothing I will buy it. On the last day, I will work at home because I have lots of work and I haven’t finished my work / and I must finish it before Wednesday (“wenz day”).

Vocabulary

dragon boat festival – duan wu jie

introduction (n) / introduce 

volume – “vol you mm” – how loud sth is
eg. I will turn up the volume / I will turn down the volume / the volume is too high / I will increase the volume

job / work 
job = position / responsibilities / task or project
work = place / verb / things you do
I am at work = place
It’s my job to help you = responsibilities
I have a good job! = position
These documents are my work for today = things you do
I am working hard = verb
My boss gave me a job to do = project

talk – use words / communicate
eg. I talk to you / I talk about sth
discuss – use words about sth / communicate about sth
eg. We discuss sth

mandarin – pu tong hua
eg. many people don’t speak mandarin – they just speak their own local dialect

window shopping
eg. I want to go window shopping
eg2. I want to do some window shopping

during the week I eat in the cafeteria

foreigners – “for rin nerz”

Pronunciation

fight / fright / night / feign / reign / foreign – silent “g” 

Grammar

Jesse is nice to me = treat you
It’s hard for me = affect / result on you

I think I didn’t prepare it very well so I feel a little bit upset – active
I think it wasn’t prepared very well by me so I feel a little bit upset – passive

passive voice – bei dong
active voice – zhu dong

Our documents all are write by English
Some documents
All documents
2 documents?

All of our documents are written in English but all of our meetings are (done) in Chinese.
Most of the time
Some of the coffee at Starbucks is good

I can to write / write
I must to write / write
I need to write / write

I need coffee
I can coffee
I must coffee – “must” is not a verb

2 verbs = always use “to”
I want coffee / I want to drink coffee
I like coffee / I like to drink coffee

because I will review my work on the Wednesday so I must writing some introduction about my work. I will drive some diagram and introduce it clearly. I must prepare how to say it clearly for my colleagues…. write it by English but I speak in Chinese. We write all documents by English (other way to say it?). I think I didn’t prepare it very well so I feel a little bit upset / nervous / stress / I have a little stress. I think it’s a little hard for me. I can’t understand some issue about the project so I spend lots of time to understand it. Discuss / talk? with my colleagues but I will try my best to finish it. So I will make a appointment for English class on the evening after I finish the meeting.

because I will review my work in Wednesday‘s meeting so I must write some introduction about my work. I will draw some diagrams and introduce them / the work / everything clearly for my colleauges so I must prepare before the meeting. I will write it in English and / but say it in Chinese. We write all our documents in English / all of our documents are written in English. I think I didn’t prepare it very well so I feel a little bit upset / nervous / stressed / I am a little stressed. I think it’s a little bit hard for me. I can’t understand some issues about the project so I spend lots of time to study them. I will discuss it / I will talk about it with my colleagues but I will try my best to finish it. So I will make an appointment for English class on Wednesday evening / in the evening on Wednesday after I finish the meeting.