Open F2F Class Notes _6th June (Harmony)

Benign:  not cancerous

Cyst:  a lump in the skin (not as serious as a tumour)

Review:

Delegate (dell – ah – gate)

Reading:

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1606/160606-muhammad-ali-2.html

Boxing:  the sport where you wear big gloves and hit your opponent.

Eg.  Boxing is very popular in China.

Boxer:  a person who does the sport of boxing

Eg.  If you want to become a good boxer you should pay more attention to exercise.

Legend (ledg – end):  famous person/ someone who is excellent at what they do/did.

Eg.  Beckham is a legend at football.

Problems 2 (prob – lems)

Opponent (aw – pone – ent): (opposite) to be against sth.  A person you are fighting/ competing against.

Eg.  He is an opponent of peace.

Vietnam (vee – et – nam): country越南

Ambassador (am – bass – ah – dor):  a person who represents something.

Eg.  All tourists are ambassadors of their country.

Decade (deck – aid):  10 years.

Eg.  They have been married for 4 decades.

Original:

Yesterday my father made a surgery on his thyroid, and the doctor took a benign tumor which is lucky. As today was the first working day of June, I had lots of reports need to submit, so I couldn’t take care of my father at hospital. I was very worried my father so I went to hospital to visit him at noon break. As the situation of retail industry is worse than prior years, our company’s high management decide to close some minus contribution stores and fire some stuffs to save the cost. So some staffs have started to look for new jobs and other staffs wait to get company’s compensation. The staff reduction plan of this round may exclude me, but it is possible that the next round include me, so I need to make mentally prepared.

Edited:

Yesterday my father had surgery on his thyroid, and the doctor took out/removed a benign tumor which is lucky. As today was the first working day of June, I had lots of reports I needed to submit, so I couldn’t take care of my father at the hospital. I was very worried about my father so I went to the hospital to visit him on my lunch break/at lunch. As the situation of retail industry is worse than prior years, our company’s high management decide to close some minus contribution stores and fire some staff to save costs. So some staff have started to look for new jobs and other staff wait to get company’s compensation. The staff reduction plan of this round may exclude me, but it is possible that the next round may/might include me, so I need to make myself mentally prepared.

Eg.  I need to prepare myself mentally.

Eg.  It is possible that I will be included in the next round

Horror movies:  scary movies, usually a lot of blood.