Open F2F Class Notes 15th November (Raph)

RaphHaley

Vocabulary

Suspicious (adj): 1- causing a feeling that something is wrong or that someone is behaving wrongly : causing suspicion. 2-  having or showing a feeling that something is wrong or that someone is behaving wrongly :feeling or showing suspicion.
E.g.: We were instructed to report any suspicious activity in the neighborhood.

Trick  (n): 1- an action that is meant to deceive someone. 2- something done to surprise or confuse someone and to make other people laugh.
E.g.: He did some amazing magic tricks.

Tricky  (adj): 1- a difficult or awkward task, problem, etc., that requires care and skill to deal with.
E.g.: This project is a little more tricky than I thought it would be.

Awkward (adj): 1- causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with. 2 –causing or feeling uneasy embarrassment or inconvenience.
E.g.: This ended up putting her in a very awkward position.

Corrections

Original:

Today is the last day of my college in our company, so we had lunch together. Totally we had 9 people and I was the last to join the company in these people. During the lunch, we got nostalgic and looked back on the past few years. When we joined the company, we were young, but now, we are kids’ mothers. After lunch, we took a photo to record the moment.

Edited:

Today was my colleague’s last day in our company, so we had lunch together. We were a total of 9 people and I was the last one among them to join the company. During the lunch, we got nostalgic and looked back on the past few years. When we joined the company, we were young, but now, we are mothers. After lunch, we took a photo to register the moment.

Original:

If the rental is 1600CNY per month, per square meter, we can break even in the fourth year.
We can’t get payback within 5 years.

Edited: 
If the rental is 1600CNY per month per square meter, we can break even in the fourth year.
We can’t get any payback within 5 years.

Pronunciation

Short Vowels: A, E, I, O and U

Short A:

  • car
  • apple
  • umbrella
  • Mark
  • lack

Short E:

  • umbrella
  • net
  • pet
  • pen
  • red
  • let
  • energetic
  • everyday

Short I:

  • pig
  • big
  • suspicious
  • tricky

Short O:

  • octopus
  • odd
  • clock
  • October
  • chocolate
  • knock

Short U:

  • umbrella
  • bug
  • but
  • plum
  • truck
  • run