Online Class Notes (Tibo)

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The big boss has many annual dinners to join so we have to follow his schedule. / We have to adapt to our boss schedule because he has to join all the annual dinners across China.

In total we have maybe around 40 offices in China.

The main city of each province has an office. / We have an office in each regional capital.

For South China all the branches celebrate together so the employees in GZ , Zhongshan and Zhuhai all come/gather to SZ for the annual dinner.

We seldom have the chance to meet all the colleagues. There is also a lucky draw. There are gifts and also some cash.
Not everyone can win the lucky draw but it is exciting.

There are team buildings but it is for 1 department, not for all the colleagues. / We don’t usually share team buildings with other departments
we have the chance to meet all the colleagues across all the departments only during the annual dinner.

Compared to other countries there are not many parades.
Many years ago there was a protest for people against Japanese products / Many years ago people wanted to boycott Japanese products and joined a protest.

In my hometown during the CNY there was parade.

Being a restorer must be hard, I think the work must be very boring.
I didn’t have the chance to travel to the desert so it is difficult to imagine what it is like.

Vocabulary

to restore (v) repair / bring back online after an issue (IT) / maintain
The Xian government spent a lot of money to restore the old building
Our server had an issue and it took our tech department 1h to restore service.

restorer (n) someone who restores old things
100 restorers worked on this old church

restoration (n) reparation / maintenance of an old thing / building
The restoration of the building will take 5 years

to boycott (v) refuse to buy to show you are unhappy about something
Many people decided to Boycott Japanese products after they release the Fukushima water in the ocean.

parade (n) (Positive only) when people celebrate in the street
There is a parade in Disneyland and many Disney characters sing and dance

protest / demonstration (n) when people go to the street to show they are unhappy about something
There was a protest against Japanese products a few years ago

to stand guard (v) to stand somewhere and watch what happens to make sure no one breaks the rules (usually for soldiers)
My apartment has several people standing guard at night to make sure no one enters and steals something

guard (n) someone making sure nothing bad happens at a place
My community has 5 guards

inmate (n) prisoner
The prise has 10,000 inmates

press tour (n) when you invite media and newspaper to visit so they can report about what they see
We organized a press tour for the opening of our new warehouse.

press (n) media
We invited the press to report on our announcement

death  valley (n) hottest place in the US (national park)
I want to visit death valley

Pronunciation

desert

tourist

death

California