Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Today we focused on:


Direct and reported speech : https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech.html

Speaking exercise

This Monday HR called me and she told me she wants to make a conversation with me to talk about the position.

But now it Friday and she didn’t find me.

That was on wednesday.
The exhibition was finished and nobody went to the office.
The manager went to Italy this week so nobody knows what happened.
This week only people worked at the office

Our HR always work at another office.
I watched movies.
only 5 people went to the office so we decided to go outside.
Lot of projects we only send the pdf and that’s ok so nobody knows what happens in our office.

This week she said she wants to ask for a leave to go outside and we told her you don’t need to do that, you just go.
You can leave your mobile in the office and we can use the account for you

Managers have a trip to Shenzhen so always 5 people in the office.

if some work ask me I will do that

contract based work

A few weeks ago I did this work, it is not easy.
People will know that / will notice.
But these two ways nobody worked.
We go outside and someone watched movies and so on.

Since I joined this company. 1 year ago , July last year.

I had never seen something like that 
someone has her wechat account so can see she post some photos and she showed a picture she 18 cases at the police station

they called the company to find her

she has a lot of debts / she borrowed a lot of money and ran away

He called to us and told us she has a big debt and I can’t find her

she played bitcoin and she had a big problem about this.

she goes buy things everyday, she drinks everyday in bars.
Usually I go to the gym and the other day I want to sleep.
I bought a switch so on Sunday we don’t want to go outside and we play sometime.
If it is wasn’t raining we just to go out camping and bring the tent.
We sat there and strangers sat beside us.


This Monday the HR manager called me and she told me she wanted to have a conversation with me to talk about the position.

But now it is Friday and she didn’t find me. / she probably forgot about me

That was on Wednesday.
The exhibition finished / the exhibition is over but nobody went to the office.
The manager went to Italy this week so nobody knows what happened.
This week only 5 people worked at the office

Our HR manager always work at another office.
I watched movies.
only 5 people went to the office so we decided to go outside.

Lot of projects we only send the pdf and that’s ok so nobody knows what happens in our office.
For a lot of projects they only need us to send files so they didn’t realize we were slacking

This week she said she wanted to ask for a leave to go outside and we told her “you don’t need to do that, you just go.” / we told her not to take a day off and that we would cover for her / we told her that she didn’t need to take a day off
we told her : “You can leave your mobile in the office and we can use the account for you” / We told her that she could leave her phone and we would cover for her

Managers have a trip to Shenzhen so we will still be 5 people in the office.

if some work ask me I will do that – If I am needed for something I will take care of it / if I receive a task I will do it

A few weeks ago I did this work, it is/was not easy. / it was not easy to do being in the office. / it is not easy to do if you are in the office.

People will know that / will notice.
But these two weeks nobody worked. / we all slacked
We went outside and someone watched movies and so on.

Since I joined this company. 1 year ago / in July last year.

I had never seen something like that 
someone has her wechat account so can see the photos she posts / she can see when she posts photos  and she showed a picture with 18 cases at the police station

they called the company to find her

she has a lot of debts / she borrowed a lot of money and ran away

He called us and told us she has a big debt and he couldn’t  find her

she bought some bitcoin and she had a big problem about this. / she lost a lot of money on this.

she goes to buy things everyday, she drinks everyday in bars.

Usually I go to the gym and the other day I wanted to sleep.
I bought a switch so on Sunday we didn’t want to go outside and we played games

If it doesn’t rain we just go out camping and bring the tent.
That day we sat on the grass and strangers sat beside us.

Vocabulary

to cover for somebody (v) help somebody pretend nothing is happening
She said she needed to go out for 1h and asked me to cover for her

to slack (v) 摸鱼
we have been slacking but no one realized it

bitcoin (n) 比特币
she bought bitcoin at the top

debt
(n) 欠款/负债
She has big debts.

loan shark (n) 放高利贷者 people who lend money at a very high rate
Loan sharks are dangerous

to notice (v) / realize something is happening
we didn’t work this week but no one noticed

contractor (n) 承包商someone who works on something just for 1 project
Tom was hired as a contractor

bored (adj)
I do some personal things so I don’t get bored

boring (adj)
working is boring

Grammar

direct speech
Tom said ” I don’t like it”
Tom said “I will go to the gym this week end”

reported speech
Tom told us he didn’t like it
Tom said he would go to the gym this week end

Tom said ” I like coffee” -> Tom said that he liked coffee

Kelly said ” I want to go to BJ this week end and I will bring back a gift for all of you” -> Kelly said that she wanted to go to Beijing this week end and she would bring back a gift for us.

Vocabulary

bitcoin (n) 比特币
she bought bitcoin at the top

debt
(n) 欠款/负债
She has big debts.

loan shark (n) 放高利贷者 people who lend money at a very high rate
Loan sharks are dangerous

to notice (v) / realize something is happening
we didn’t work this week but no one noticed

contractor (n) 承包商someone who works on something just for 1 project
Tom was hired as a contractor

bored (adj)
I do some personal things so I don’t get bored

boring