Jeffrey

Richtek EE Director in Hsinchu

Many English meetings with foreigners.

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80% Business.

Analog Circuit Design.

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Wife + 1 Son & 1 Daughter (Elementary)

Core Family in Taipei.

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Studied in New York

Relatives in North America.

Staying in Taiwan.

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Gym, Baseball & Gran Turismo + MSFS 

Business Graphs

🗳️ Retirement and Policies - 11/9 + 11/23 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Learn the Ropes/Basics

  2. Horoscope 八字 (Virgo)

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Recreational 

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Retirement 🧓  

  2. The Voting Age 🗳️ 

  3. TSMC Americans 🗽

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. Many companies 

  2. I have two managers and engineers 

  3. Compared to other occupations or jobs 

  4. All the major parties ✔️ 

  5. More females are joining politics 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Previously we were divided 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. He wants something more relaxing/relaxed 

  2. If green wins 

  3. If the party doesn't have him

🔥 Descriptions

  1. Some organizational change

  2. We're undergoing a market change

  3. I don't feel any excitement 

  4. Probably because he's bored 
    It's too boring 

  5. They don't prefer convenience - n 

  6. Northern Europe is very secretive 

  7. This was one of the destinations 

  8. In Chinese culture

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. We're both not

  2. They like it very much

  3. I think both are okay​

📊 CC's PPTs + Fun Homework - X

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. ​

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. ​

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. T

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🔎 Comments:

  • ​

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. W

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. T

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⭐ Focus

  1. W

🔥 Descriptions

  1. W

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. M

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. I

📊 Gen Z at Work - 11/2

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. ​

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. ​

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Gen Z

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🔎 Comments:

  • ​

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. Lots of meetings and discussions 

  2. We use lots of tools 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Most of my job was in the warehouse

  2. At that time I was just in high school

  3. Back home by walking 

  4. They didn't need to use computers

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⭐ Focus

  1. W

🔥 Descriptions

  1. Our workstyle is to go directly to them

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Don't need to be afraid of change

  2. Because we are a company

  3. Their Chinese is not good

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. ✅ 

🧑‍🎓 Gen Z at Work - 10/19 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Smart Ass 自作聰明
    (Teases the boss)

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📝 Action Items

  1. Kids in the Metaverse

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. IC Burnout ⚡ 

  2. Gen Z at Work 👦 

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🔎 Comments:

  • Good Plural Grammar 

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. One of my many important products 

  2. Is to play video games 

  3. When I recruit new engineers 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. When I was in college or high school

  2. Especially when I was in high school

  3. To earn money by doing this

  4. They want to buy a new house

  5. Everyone originally thought 

  6. We could not eat out

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🔥 Descriptions

  1. He should work harder and be promoted

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. This is not a very big issue

  2. Maybe they use it for one week

  3. During the WFH stage

  4. If your laptop is not closed

  5. To leave the office is like a ceremony

  6. Because the boss knows

  7. Before the pandemic

  8. To go to the job | To go to ___ work

  9. I don't think so 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. The company pays them a salary

✅ We 'Mostly' Agree with this PPT - 10/12

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Face the Music
    Accept Reality 

  2. SOP - Standard Operating Procedure

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Try it | Trial Run  

  2. 🏄‍♂️ Fun | Funny 🤣 哈哈

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. TSMC Strat Com. PPT

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. There are 5 reasons 

  2. Maybe 1 hour or 2 hours 

  3. He can have more resources 

  4. Most casual users don't care

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🏆 Completed

  1. Google's Turnover

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📝 Action Items

  1. Kids in the Metaverse

🔥 Descriptions

  1. The most fun games

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. After our introduction

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Maybe get him a/the present he wants 

🎌 Japanese Culture in Japan - 10/5 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Kindergarten 幼兒園 

  2. Read the Air 
    Behave to the Situation 

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📝 Action Items

  1. Google's Turnover 

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Accidents

  2. Google's Turnover

  3. Japanese Colleagues

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. All the policies are for the votes

  2. Those are the two main reasons 

  3. Two hours of extra work

  4. You need to stay 2 hours longer

  5. I think most employees will think

  6. I think some big companies will do this

  7. We are colleagues 

  8. We encourage our employees to be great

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Last time I had dinner with him

🔥 Descriptions

  1. Usually once a month

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. They don't like the boss

  2. The company will give a dinner box for free

  3. He previously worked for a UK design house

  4. Taiwanese are too busy

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. The company has a budget

  2. The boss doesn't want you to be special

📊 CC's PPTs + Fun Homework - 9/28

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Stomach Ulcer 潰瘍

  2. 👽 Protos vs Zerg 🪳

  3. Refresh Rate 刷新率 

  4. Ponzi Scheme 龐氏騙局

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. ​

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. T

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🔎 Comments:

  • ​

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. We're shipping to fabs

  2. We have many tasks 

  3. Maybe 15 hours a day
    Maybe 15-hour days 

  4. Lots of instant noodles 🍜  

  5. There's three choices 

  6. To collect resources 

  7. Starcraft has a bunch of maps 

  8. Maybe one of the reasons 

  9. Just two places 

  10. LINE has lots of features 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. We were discussing an issue

  2. He discounted the simulation

  3. My daily life was not healthy

  4. I'm not good at controlling this race

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⭐ Focus

  1. W

🔥 Descriptions

  1. I had a management-level talk with him

  2. There was a disappointment in management

  3. We have a computer to simulate-v it
    To do a simulation-n

  4. No sickness = Not sick

  5. LINE is not as successful 

  6. Japan should be excluded 

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Tomorrow is the tape out date

  2. To find a balance

  3. When I joined ___ Richtek

  4. And then go to the office

  5. Why do we use LINE?

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. To give feedback

📱 iPhone's New Features - 9/21 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. AR Augmented Reality
    Virtual + Real Together
    增強 現實

  2. Sewer Oil 下水道油 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. ​

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Vacations

  2. AR Cat Racing

  3. Food as Medicine 

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🔎 Comments:

  • ​

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. There are several places 

  2. One of the features 

  3. The fighter can handle more G's 

  4. Some adults use diapers 

  5. There are more marathons 

  6. One of the employees 

  7. I think those features are not so useful

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. We had a BBQ with friends

  2. We only could book a lunchtime

  3. We had a small dog

  4. This feature is disabled 

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⭐ Focus

  1. W

🔥 Descriptions

  1. That's more fun than a restaurant 

  2. He lives very healthily 

  3. He had achieved his goal

  4. To make it healthier 

  5. Now it's the 14th generation

  6. Just like an auto-driving car

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Because the Lunar Festival

  2. We had a big dog

  3. I'd go to see the doctor

  4. More people go to the gym

  5. To communicate with the government

  6. You don't need to use the steering wheel 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Hsinchu also has this place

  2. My daughter loves cats

  3. The scenery he sees 

  4. She won't/doesn't go

  5. Everytime before a new generation comes out

🛕 A Chinese Drama - 8/31 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Emporer 👑 Empress

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📝 Action Items

  1. Seoul Vibe 🚘 [Netflix] 

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. The Weekend ⚾ 

  2. Chinese Drama 👰 

  3. Covid vs Travel ✈️ 

  4. China Taiwan 🎎 

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. 76 episodes 

  2. It's one of the Chinese dramas 

  3. The investors 

  4. We had zero cases 

  5. We have many flights 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. This was our original plan

  2. She was isolated from the Emporer

  3. She fell in love with him

  4. At that time we didn't need to wear a mask

🔥 Descriptions

  1. They're not that beautiful 

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Wait for me

  2. To go shopping and see a movie

  3. Finally we dropped it 

  4. In the Philippines 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Every night he needs to choose one of them

  2. To let them die 

  3. If the competitor knows that

  4. China produces lots of products

⭐ Korean Dramas - 8/24 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Abortion 自閉症

  2. Squid Game 🦑🪙 

  3. Binge-Watching 🍿 
    狂歡觀看 | 追劇 

  4. Taiwanese American
    台裔美國人 

  5. Anticlimatic 虎頭蛇尾

  6. Layover 中途停留 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. 🧠 Austistic | 🎨 Artistic

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Market Trends 📉 

  2. Korean Dramas ❤️‍🩹 
    Extraordinary Attorney Woo

  3. Economies

  4. Van Life

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. The salaries and bonuses are higher

  2. Even in the other areas 

  3. Related to housing prices 

  4. She can remember all the words 

  5. There's two big lawyer firms 

  6. They're competitors 

  7. The two female bosses were classmates 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. The price is still being maintained 

  2. She's not used to getting along with people

  3. She already heard his voice

  4. She just wanted to...

  5. Her boyfriend insisted 

  6. Where she grew up or what she looks like

  7. She just wanted to break up

  8. After the child was born

  9. Whenever she wanted to find a job

  10. That this mother had this background

  11. Two years ago there was a popular story

  12. They became a real couple

  13. They fell in love

  14. Taiwan was the number one

  15. That trip was for pleasure

🔥 Descriptions

  1. The first lawyer with that sickness 

  2. She's a genius 

  3. He's handsome

  4. He didn't want to take her 

  5. He found that she is very special

  6. She doesn't know what is love

  7. To hear her boyfriend's voice

  8. Just because of the pregnancy 

  9. It'll affect her plan

  10. She made use of his daughter

  11. She finally becomes his bestfriend 

  12. The contribution from Covid 19

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. She cannot stare into the others' eyes

  2. Interested in him

  3. Wait for me

  4. Take a shower for free

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. He knows this girl

  2. She doesn't know how to get along

  3. She doesn't know

  4. There wasn't good health care

  5. Her mother doesn't know 

  6. To birth the child

  7. When she knows she has a daughter

  8. She finds them for me

🛫 Semiconductor Turbulance - 17 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. A Catch 22 : Need to start both at same time

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🏆 Completed

  1. Prepare for Take Off 🛫

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📝 Action Items

  1. Watch Pokemon Secrets of the Jungle with your whole Family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Cambodia

  2. Semiconductors

  3. Turbulence 

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. To take out your organs 

  2. Many actions are ongoing

  3. Those planes were sent to Australia

  4. We have 4 grades 

  5. Very few companies can achieve that

  6. In fuel based cars 

  7. After so many earthquakes happened

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. We chose to go then

  2. We only rode bicycles

  3. If you just graduated from University

  4. The first time I took the train

  5. I didn't feel very comfortable

  6. I never thought of it

🔥 Descriptions

  1. I think it's FUN

  2. If you are knowledgable enough

  3. I originally thought 

  4. I'm amazed that no issues have happened

  5. I start to feel some discomfort 

  6. I was quite fearful 

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Maybe Taiwan and __ China 

  2. Sorry, I have a phone call 📞 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. She plays Pokemon Go

  2. If that person stays in Taiwan

📊 Rememberable Presentations - 8/16

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Milking it 🐄 🥛 🪙 
    Sell amap until it dies

  2. FOMO
    Fear of Missing Out

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. Choose an Article

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Presentations PPT

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. Because I skipped 2 classes 

  2. So many of these kinds of dramas 

  3. Five or eight dramas like this

  4. Still some companies 

  5. Maybe some startup companies 

  6. The achievements I have accomplished

  7. Many of the hotel websites 

  8. Only 5 rooms left

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Tesla had some layoffs 

  2. When I graduated from University

  3. The job market was terrible

  4. Just because she wanted to visit Taiwan

  5. They shot missiles

  6. When I was promoted to director

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⭐ Focus

  1. W

🔥 Descriptions

  1. The girl is a beauty, she's very beautiful 

  2. I have two Master Degrees 

  3. I'm amazed, I'm amazed, 

  4. It's much more serious

  5. When I have a 30 slide powerpoint

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. This is a bad time

  2. Now, maybe it's a good chance

  3. You need to be very relaxed

  4. The feedback of the audience

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Every company has begun a headcount freeze

  2. When the market goes back

  3. China wants to build their own tools 

  4. America has a regulation

📊 CC's PPTs + Fun Homework - 7/20

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. ​

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. $1.2 Billion Arizona Plan

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📝 Action Items

  1. Unreal Engine 5 Video

  2. Their Business Model

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Conference Calls ☎️

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🔎 Comments:

  • Very High Vocab

  • Strong Reviewer 

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. Then go through the details later

  2. We'll cut some projects 

  3. No need to deal with emotions 

  4. One million soilders 

  5. Last week / In the last few weeks 

  6. Usually 1 hour to 2 hours 

  7. The people are so many

  8. Only one time 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. They started to use underwater supplies

  2. During Covid 

  3. At that time, it was excellent!

  4. I chose the first table

  5. It's conducted by a high level manager

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⭐ Focus

  1. W

🔥 Descriptions

  1. That can make the meeting go smoother 

  2. The competition will become fierce / intense 

  3. For him it's the most efficient way

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. The funny/interesting thing is desalination 💧

  2. You need to hold a meeting 

  3. If someone may disagree with my proposal

  4. To do the research 🔎 

  5. To give you a discount

  6. We raised the price

  7. How long will it take to wait for your boss 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Everyone needs to catch up with others

  2. Our customer wants to have a discount

  3. If the project goes down

  4. When the market bounces back

💧 Economics & Resources - 7/13 

🏆 Completed

  1. Wafer Sized Chip

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📝 Action Items

  1. $1.2 Billion Arizona Plan

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Homework Review

  2. Water Levels 💧 

  3. Demographics

  4. Labor Force

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. We use multiple CORES

  2. Each chip has multiple CORES

  3. There's many CHOICES

  4. There's a lot of FACTORIES there

  5. Taiwan and other COUNTRIES

  6. They are smart GUYS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I TOOk my phone

  2. They IMIGRATED over 20 years ago

🔥 Descriptions

  1. Sorry, I have a phone CALL 📞

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. For half A year

  2. The phone IS still not working

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. That's why it NEEDS to have identical cores

  2. She LIKES to live in a city

  3. Even Europe WANTS to build FABS

📊 Generations & Democracy - 7/6 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. ​

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. C

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. ​

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⌚ Lesson Time: 

  1. The Downturn📉 

  2. Generational Gaps🏡

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🔎 Comments:

  • ​

🐾 Plural Noun​s 

  1. More raw MATERIALS

  2. The demand for WAFERS will be less

  3. There are less truck DRIVERS

  4. Less small COMPANIES

  5. Provide GRANTS to new COMPANIES

  6. Other FAMILIES cannot afford it

  7. They have more RESOURCES

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. One time I WENT to Japan

  2. The room we CHOSE was without one 🪟 

  3. The HR market WAS still very hot

  4. Every company WANTED them

  5. We PAID a lot of money

  6. It changed very QUICKLY

  7. Two years before, we WERE/WOULD raise

  8. Taiwan HAD many design HOUSES...

  9. We TOOK the bus

  10. Than what we HAD before

  11. When we WERE young

  12. I WAS born in 1987

🔥 Descriptions

  1. Every space is COMPARETIVELY small

  2. We want to do some ANALYSIS-n
    We want to ANALYZE-v some things

  3. They had a former ANNOUNCEMENT

  4. Protect the ELDERLY

  5. It's RELETIVELY cheap

  6. The BIRTH rate was very high

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. If you live in THE/A city 

  2. Due to THE pandemic

  3. During THE past 2 years

  4. THE US government TENDS to call it back

  5. I think it may BE true
    The right side OF the M

  6. If you don't need IT

  7. I live IN Taipei ON the weekend

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. It RESULTS in some...

  2. The younger gen HAS more responsibility

  3. The company which EARNS a lot

📊 Wafer Sized Chips - 6/29 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. USP Unique Selling Proposition

  2. NLP Natural Language Processing

  3. Tailored=Fitted/Custom

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. ✔️ 

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📝 Action Items

  1. Wafer Chip

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