Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Yesterday I didn’t feel well with my throat  / yesterday my throat ached.

we were affected in the first wave within one or two month and then it was ok and now people will be infected for the second time.

I hope it is on working days not on week ends.
You don’t have covid leave anymore but if you feel uncomfortable you can apply to work from home or use the normal sick leave.

At that time we said if you get infected it is better to be in 2022

If they are infected for the second time they feel better, you will only have fever for 1 or 2 days.
It is like a cold but you will still feel very tired and after 3 days you will feel better / it doesn’t seem as serious as the first wave.

He was infected last week and he high fever for 3 days. Now he goes to the office and he told me he was tested negative but you can feel he is still recovering. He orders a Vitamin C juice every day for me.

Their symptoms were very light.
He only had a fever for 1 night.
He sweated a lot and the next day he was ok.
If you drink ginger water you will feel better.

Sometimes when it rains when you arrive home they give you ginger water and it helps you to warm up.

Her husband is a doctor and they are not tested positive until now. She told me they tried a way, they used garlic to make water.
They put the garlic in the water for the whole night and then drink 3 times a day. Until now they haven’t been infected.
it doesn’t taste very good.

you can buy ginger turned into powder in small bags for 1 cup.
brown sugar is also very good for your body.

We will have the second pilot next week.
There are a lot of problems to be improved -> we have a lot of problems to fix  / we need to fix a few problems / we need to iron out a few bugs but it is on track.

I can see the end of it / I expect to finish by the end of the year.
It lasts for too long, it has been almost 2 years.

Partners who always do something bad and their actions will affect you.
I don’t expect them to be smart and finish on time . I just hope they don’t do anything wrong.

I have some colleagues who don’t have a sense of what they need to do and then they don’t realize it and still don’t fix it and leave a lot of problems to you.

They talk to you aggressively pretending it is a system problem when it is actually their problem.
They find ways to explain they were not wrong.

they make me want to resign / they make me lose hope.

Laziness is the nature of people / people are naturally lazy.

Although in new systems you can provide more convenience change is a difficult thing.

When you fall in love with someone for a long time you don’t want to break up -> when you are in love with someone / when you are in a relationship ..

in the recent 2 years I start to be behind the times.
When I jumped from Adidas to Sephora I was motivated.
I had hope and expectations.
You need to learn new processes, I will never feel excited like 4 years ago, I want to keep/maintain the current status.

With the growing of your age you will know a lot of things-> as your grow older you learn more things

I told him if I didn’t fall in love with you in Uni I would not fall in love now
-> If I had not fallen in love with you in uni I would not fall in love now.

When we were in uni I never asked him if he had a house or not.
The school the kid can enter depends on your house / the schools you get access to depend on the location of your house.

When I was 18 I never thought about it. I thought a lot about the future but didn’t realize I had to consider those things.

A lot of people you are independently -> you are independent
tbh I don’t want to work, maybe I will change to a very stable work.
I want my job to be stress free.

the recognition is very important for me
sometimes we badmouth
Gossips are one of the things that are interesting about work.

In Sephora I had the recognition from my boss and colleagues I am close with.
I am the only one he praises

Sometimes I feel very suffer -> sometimes I feel like I am suffering.

although he was positive he had to go to the office for an important meeting.
He asked me for a bigger room to protect others.

he is very creative.  People need compensation for additional work but he will think it is good for you to improve your skills.

People were motivated by the job and thought it was good to get an opportunity.
After Covid people realized it is not the most important, they want to have a fair compensation.
Young people don’t have the motivation to earn more, the only thing they want is work life balance.
If they manage people the 2 generations the same way it won’t work.

Vocabulary

aggressive (adj)
He is very aggressive at work

aggressively (adv)
We aggressively promoted our new product

to slack (v) not work hard
People tend to slack on Friday afternoon.

creativity (n)
He has a lot of creativity

creative (adj)
He is creative

to praise (v) say good things about someone
I am usually the only one he praises.

to badmouth (v) say bad things about someone
Sometimes we badmouth people we don’t like.

recognize (v)
He often recognizes my achievements

recognition (n)
He shows recognition for my achievements

brown sugar (n) 红糖姜茶
I bought some brown sugar

to sweat (v) creating body water when you move around , etc.
I started to sweat because it was very hot

ginger (n) 姜
I made him a drink with ginger

Pronunciation

affected

infected