February 03

Record of Classes

Lesson on 10/2/03 Topic(s): CNY holidays, talking about the past, camping, work
New Vocabulary	Notes	Mistakes	Notes	Problems/Issues	Notes
make a scene	Quite informal, probably speech	How is your holiday?		I still got a lot to do	Not a big problem but if you want to be more "native speaker like"
tantrum	Particularly for small children	you need make tent		sale will start	Possibly correct but , probably
		because very busy	Be careful of this one!	the last day for my boss to be here	Possibly correct but sounds old fashioned, probably
		is second to		was a large number of stocks	Correct structure, but a bit formal for casual speech could be made more "native speaker like" by
		all my boss work
		I very irritated again
		some of the American boss

Lesson on 17/2/03 Topic(s): Review of previous work, talking about accommodation in HK
New Vocabulary	Notes	Mistakes	Notes	Problems/Issues	Notes
anybody in their right mind		last Saturday is the first time
		it include a car park

Lesson on 24/2/03 Topic(s): CNY holidays, talking about the past, camping, work
New Vocabulary	Notes	Mistakes	Notes	Problems/Issues	Notes
run down	Quite informal, probably speech	check all the incoming mails	"Mail" is uncountable
erudite	Formal	they have 40 something chapters	Good use of " 40 something chapters"
out of step with	Quite informal, probably speech	because very tired	Be careful of this one! Similar to "because very busy" (see above)
savvy		of the JP Morgan	Companies usually don't have an article
pragmatic	Quite formal