Online Class Notes (Tibo)

John Smith asked you to send a report a week ago and you totally forgot.
He asked you about it again today. Reply to the email, attach the report and apologize.

+ review grammar
 

write an email to Jeffrey Blue to invite him to the company’s annual party in DG on July 21:

Hi Jeffrey,

I hope this email finds you well.

I’m glad to invite you to our annual party in DG on July 21.
Could you please confirm if you plan to attend (by July 20.)?

Hope to hear from you soon / thank you in advance

Best regards,

Lluvia

I don’t think I had a nice week

You know my boss went to the midyear meeting in DG so on the week end he sent me more emails and gave me more information at 9 or 10o’clock pm. -> You know my boss went to the midyear meeting in DG so he even sent me emails during the week end, sometimes at 9 or 10pm. / 9 or 10 o’clock in the evening 

I replied the email and sent more files.

When he sent me more files and I answered him I would go to eat dinner outside / I told him I had to go out for dinner.

He wants me standby for him the whole day.

He will try to contact to me many times.-> He will try to contact me many times

I don’t know because I joined this company it is the third week end. -> I joined this company 3 weeks ago  / it is my third week in this company.

My last job I stayed in the company for more than 13 years.
I thought I would retire in this company.

It’s hard to say 不好说

It didn’t take much time / it was fast

I don’t know the colleagues well yet  / I don’t know them well enough

The new colleagues and the new friends all pretend -> a lot of colleagues appear nice but maybe they aren’t really nice.

at the very beginning they all appear nice

Everyday we eat together at lunch. / we eat lunch together 

We order food delivery to the office. 

I prefer sandwich or salad
they think this is too simple, they like to order many dishes.

For one person sandwich is better but for many people and we together it is not ok.
-> sandwiches are not good when you want to share

I want to traveling the world. / I want to travel the whole world.
I want to go to America. I haven’t go there -> I have never been there 

Hi John,

I hope this email finds you well.

I regret to tell you that I won’t be able to go to the meeting on July 18

because I have to go to Beijing on a business trip.

Could you please let me know if you are free at another date?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,

Lluvia.

Vocabulary

Retire (v) 退
Women in China can retire at 55

Retirement (n)
I will go to Thailand for my retirement

To delay (v) 推迟
They plan to delay retirement by 5 years 

Simple (adj) 简单
I like to eat simple dishes for lunch 

Prefer (v) 更喜欢
I prefer coffee 

Food delivery (n) 外卖
we order a food delivery for lunch on elema 

The very beginning 最开始
At the very beginning everything is hard and then things become easier 

It’s hard to say 不好说
I don’t know where I will be in 10 years, It is hard to say 

Roulette (n) 轮盘赌
We played the roulette at the casino

to gamble (v) 赌博 /以…为赌注
Tom likes to gamble but he usually loses money 

To bet (v) 赌/用…打赌
Tom likes to bet on football

bet (n) 打赌
I have a bet with my colleague on who will come first to the office today 

Yacht (n) 帆船
Tom bought a yacht 

Success (n)
For many people success is having a yacht 

To succeed (v)
Tom succeeded and travelled the world 

Pronunciation

purpose

File

Fail  

Salad 

Grammar

Have you ever been to Xian ?
I went to Xian in 2015
I have never been to Xian 

Have you ever been to a casino ?

Using adj + enough : 够
Tom is tall enough to be a model 够高
Jerry is not old enough to get married 不够老
Jeffrey is rich enough. / Jeffrey is rich enough to buy a yacht