VIP Class Notes (Tony) [S]

Cambridge Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy

Vocabulary

before I went to dinner

they did it without my knowledge

To the best of my knowledge…

According to my recollection…

Add up – to make sense

Call off – cancel plans

Come Across – to seem as

eg:    his plan came across as a money grab, with no real incentives for quality work.

drawback – a negative thing about something

eg: What’s one of the drawbacks for working at a self-funded investment company.

I think there’s no drawback since all the funds are yours you can have more control over them.

recollect V. – remember

eg: I have no recollection of such events.

Phrasal Verbs:

Move

Move on

move out

move up

move over

Today we were doing events for one of our agencies, we planned this event five months ago, the event is this weekend. We had a long meeting today to go through all the details of the event with our partner. What surprising us was their plan is not add up with the original plan. And this really frustrated us because the event is this weekend and no one tell us the schedule is changed. So we were thinking about calling off the plan, but this project is tied to them so we don’t really have the right to do it, this will need to be discussed with the board before we cancel the event. Their plan came across as irresponsible. No one really know what are they doing.

Today we were going through the event details with one of our agencies. We‘d planned this event five months ago, all of a sudden the event is this weekend and our partners are not well prepared. We had a long meeting today to double check all the details with our partner. What surprised us was their plan didn’t add up with the original plan. And this really frustrated us because the event is this weekend and no one gave us a heads up that the schedule changed. So we were thinking about calling off the event, however our hands were tied because they are the sole agent for this project. This will need to be discussed with the board before we call off the event. The execution of their plan came across as irresponsible, which misused funds. No one really knew what they were doing.

Grammar

Had changed = changed     UNLESS something significant happens after the change which you need to mention.

WE had changed our plans, and then they told us the flight is no longer cancelled.

(They told us it was cancelled, we changed our flight, then they told us it wasn’t cancelled)