Online Class Notes (Olivia)

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

Covid is disruptive to our lives

The experience of locking down for three months is very impactful/ terrible/ un pre ce dent ed/ unexpected/ once in a life time!!!

Pronunciation

overseas (i:) business

hire (ai) – recruit   fire  tired, tiring, wire 

hair – hairstyle

wear (e) – lab coat / where 

previous – pre vi ous

diversified – di ver si fied

very interesting

previous: pre vi ous

experiment：ex pe ri ment

diverse, diversity, diversified

introverted

let’s try to compare your current job vs the previous job

1.  work place: my current work place is better, more comfortable, and more convenient than my previous work location.
2. work content: my current job is more diversifed, more challenging, more fulfiling, more interesting than my previous job.

Worklife balance:

I like travelling, working out, going to the gym, I like yoga.

I gain a little

I don’t like putting all my time to do my job or to work overtime. 

I don’t like dedicating all my personal time to do work, especially after work hours. I like to keep my worklife balance.

my boss is very hardworking, dedicated, devoted

He handles his work very aggressively.

Self-improvement question:

1: mood, attitude/mindset: have a growth mindset

2: read more books, professional books as well as leisure books.

3: keep exercising, be healthy, eat healthy, stick to a healthy schedule.

on the whole, people miss opportunity to enjoy leisure, but I want to worklife balance and to enjoy my life and also keep study.

As a whole/ in a nutshell/ in summary, people in China are always too busy to do ……, they are too focused on achieving success in their careers, whilst they forget to enjoy life. But I want to achieve worklife balance, and enjoy my life while continue to improve myself.

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

Continue practicing the pronounciations mentioned in the session.

Next class: focus on the student giving constructed answers to questions.