Riley

6.0 | 535 👔 TOIEC Business

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Riley got her name from the main girl from Disney's Inside Out. She likes Disney.

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Wants to learn about Business. Not so much about Small Talk. 

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Business: Emails. Presentations. Leadership from Simon Scenic. Sales. Numbers. Big Data. Interview Questions.

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Job: Business Analysis. Food & Views.

Searching for a new job.

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🏆 Perfectly Random Numbers - 4/27

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Piggy Bank 🐷🪙 

  2. Irksome | Irritating 惱人

  3. Legitimate 合理的 

  4. Discrimination 歧視 

  5. Whistleblower: Tells Police about a Firm

  6. Retaliation = Revenge

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Employee Pay

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. After 1 or 2 YEARS

  2. She needs to hire ENGINEERS

  3. More FACTORIES and ENGINEERS

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. We have to MEMORIZE those stories

  2. Maybe it HELPS

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🏆 Milestone

  1. Riley went through the random number generator fluently, without any mistakes, or the need for commas.

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🔥 Descriptions

  1. To think more STRATEGICALLY (adv) 

  2. The company's STRATEGY (n)

  3. More CHOICES (n), but hard to CHOOSE (v)

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. To look AT big numbers

  2. In THE Science Park

  3. We talk about this in THE company

  4. They may be familiar WITH their job

  5. People that ARE familiar

  6. When we get out of THE office

  7. Not talking ABOUT work

  8. Someone to GO to China

  9. You'll GET/BE more than average​

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🔢 Random Number Generator - X

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. W

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. T

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🏆 Completed

  1. T

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📝 Action Items

  1. B

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. The

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. I

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I

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🏀 Similar Words

  1. I

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🔥 Descriptions

  1. It's

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. I

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. I

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  1.  

🔢 Random Number Generator - 4/20

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Drone 🚁 無人機 

  2. Collapse 🌉 坍塌 

  3. Transmit 📤 發送 

  4. Marketing Campaign 
    營銷活動 (Advertising) 

  5. To Mitigate/Reduce Risk

  6. Reach Prosperity (n) 繁榮
    To Be Prosperous (adj)

  7. Barter 物物交換 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. T

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🏆 Completed

  1. Musk & Twitter

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📝 Action Items

  1. B

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. AUO's Balance Sheet

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. They produce TVS, MONITORS, PHONES

  2. For two WEEKS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I haven't GOTTEN my 3rd shot

  2. The demand HAS BECOME / BECAME 

  3. To keep PRODUCING panels

  4. Keep PRODUCING panels

  5. Before, it only COULD write

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. I'm not sure IF it would be higher

  2. A/THE teacher can use it to write

  3. Twitter will not BE limited

  4. Shanghai is LOCKED down now.
    Shanghai is IN lockdown now.

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🐣 Chicken or the Egg

  1. You need both to happen, but one can't happen without the other.

  2. You want to sell more electric cars, but people won't buy them unless there are electric car charging stations, but businesses won't install stations unless people have electric cars.

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🔥 Descriptions

  1. Just to feel SAFE (a) / Just for SAFETY (n) 
    Choose a SAFE (a) toy, for their SAFETY (n)
    Choose a SAFE car for our SAFETY
    Choose a SAFE house for our SAFETY
    SAFETY (n) requires you to be SAFE (a)
    I saw this ARTICLE

  2. He wants to speak FREELY (adv)​

  3. SHE talked 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. He WANTS to use his power

  2. He WANTS to buy Twitter

  3. He always USES short SENTENCES

  4. It CREATES a big effect

  5. Musk WANTS to show.

  6. He always WANTS to be a pioneer.

  7. If Musk WANTS to control Twitter

  8. The government WORRIES

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🔢 Random Number Generator - 4/13

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Mysterious 神秘 
    專員 Commisioner
     

🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Strategy

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🏆 Completed

  1. Inflation

  2. 4 Days of Work

  3. Jogging in Taiwan

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📝 Action Items

  1. Choose a Few

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. World Finances

  2. Review With You

🏀 Similar Words

  1. One girl's dog / Many girls' dogs

  2. 40% of Americans' deposits ARE lower
     

  3. He was Affected (v/a) by the vaccine
    Pain is one of the Effects (n) of the vaccine

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Employees ARE BURNT OUT AT an all-time high.

Pay STAYS/keeps-as the same. It INCREASED profits while REDUCING work time. Employees become/are more RELAXED [a] It IMPROVES EMPLOYEES' productivity.

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Someone WHO WANTS AN intense strength workout. It's suitable for (the) people WHO want AN easy run. When you RUN / YOU'RE running.

In THIS article, he recommends THE/AN outlet mall. A very BIG source / _ Very MUCH protein​

🔥 Descriptions

  1. It's

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. I want to share WITH you that...

  2. The interest rate will BE higher

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. It SAYS

  2. Everything HAS become more expensive

  3. When the interest rate GOES up

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🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. For all EMPLOYEES

  2. What PRODUCTS do we want to get

  3. The price IS AFFECTED.

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I

📩 Professional Email... Stuff - 3/16 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Vague 模糊的 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Aim "eh-m"

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🏆 Completed

  1. Rejection Letter

  2. Don't Ask 

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📝 Action Items

  1. Two, unless it's an easy one, then do 1 is ok.

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Homework Review

  2. Email Writing PPT

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. I Separate the PARAGRAPHS first

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I haven't GONE there in a while

  2. I BOUGHT it

  3. He was REJECTED many times

  4. OUR company asked us

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. She WANTS one

  2. He WANTS to know more

  3. He NEEDS a time

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NEXT WEEK!! 💫 
Email PPT Slide 25

🔥 Descriptions

  1. It's really close to the TRUTH / TRUE reason

  2. A HIGHER salary and more HOLIDAYS

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. I went to THE office and saw the chair

  2. Oh, THIS/THE student is so cool

  3. YOU'RE still there

  4. For A long time

  5. That is not always THE right answer

  6. Ask FOR AN experience 

  7. Business is closer TO work

  8. I agree WITH your point

  9. Could you tell me THE result first​

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🔢 Random Number Generator - 3/9

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Sophisticated 複雜的 
    = Smart & Cultured

  2. Chief 首席 

  3. Lucrative 有利可圖

  4. To Prompt 提示

  5. Aggravate 加劇

  6. Deficit 赤字 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Eleven = 11 

  2. Schmidt's = "Smits"

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🏆 Completed

  1. N/A

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📝 Action Items

  1. Uhhhh~ 2?​

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. For your SHOULDERS

  2. You can stretch your LEGS

  3. One Excel FILE for everyone's NEEDS

  4. One PERSON uses the other database

  5. For different NEEDS and analysis

  6. USERS can order what they want to eat

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. There WAS a bridge

  2. The database WILL be PUBLISHED

  3. Finally, we DID that

  4. Finally, we SUCCEEDED

  5. App revenue HAS GONE up

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Massage Chair

  2. Interview Answers

  3. Apple Tops Gaming

  4. Natural Gas Prices

🔥 Descriptions

  1. WE'LL be more EFFICIENT than before

  2. It was SUCCESSFUL

  3. For a long TERM vision

  4. About 10-20 dollars per MEAL

  5. If APPLE'S gaming revenue's profit is higher

  6. Use gas or ELECTRICITY

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Everything IS all done

  2. Actually, in THE Science Park...

  3. It depends on THE/each restaurant 

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. It ROTATES at 7 o'Clock 2 times a day

  2. She WANTS to be a rock climber

  3. Can ANALYZE it automatically

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🔢 Random Number Generator - 2/23

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Misinformation 誤傳

  2. Dictator 獨裁者 / 專政

  3. Blockade 封鎖 

  4. Conflict 衝突

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🏆 Completed

  1. Busy Season

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📝 Action Items

  1. Last week of no HW

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. The first two WEEKS of the month

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I

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🏀 Similar Words

  1. Backstabbing
    - They're nice to you when you see them, but when you leave, they talk garbage about everything including you.

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🔥 Descriptions

  1. I

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. Don't listen TO anyone

  2. They will BE angry

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. If everyone VACCINATES (v)

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Garbage Information

  2. Understanding Others

✈️ Work Smart, Not Hard - 2/16 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Alcoholic 酒鬼 🍺 
    Workaholic 工作狂 💻 

  2. Headfake (Slang) 🔀 
    An unexpected result

  3. An Era 時代

  4. To Procrastinate 拖延 

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📝 Action Items

  1. Tell Chad about the Adventures of Do Not Disturb Mode.

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. I 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Where DID you go?

  2. We just WENT to see tea

  3. You WENT there? Did you go there?

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Vacations

  2. Workaholism

  3. 4 Hour Work Week

🔥 Descriptions

  1. I think if SOMEONE'S working

  2. The first REASON is

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. We have one week TO work from home

  2. Don't reply TO any EMAILS or MESSAGES

  3. If many questions haven't BEEN done

  4. My email will BE for this reason

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. Someone LIKES to CC their boss
    Some people LIKE to CC their boss

🎇 Happy Busy New Year! - 1/19 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Economic Recession 
    經濟蕭條

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🏆 Completed

  1. Rich Dad Poor Dad

  2. Video

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📝 Action Items

  1. Rich Dad Poor Dad

  2. Choose a Video

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Working from home

  2. The Stock Market

  3. Real Estate

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. I'll hang out with my class MATES

  2. Buy ELECTRONICS 

  3. Tainan is more for ENGINEERS

  4. In recent YEARS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I think it's GOING up

  2. In 2020 it WAS bad

  3. The stock market WENT up quickly

  4. The stock market is TRENDING down

  5. Because the interest rate WENT up

  6. The stock market TRIPLED (v)

  7. I worry if the market WILL trend down

  8. The last time WAS in 2008

  9. I told you this old fart BOUGHT Tesla stock

  10. She CHOSE that house

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🔥 Descriptions

  1. The ECONOMY (n) will trend down,
    In this kind of ECONOMIC (adj) situation

  2. If the company is RELATED to X...

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. THE Lunar New Year is coming

  2. Before THE Lunar New Year, we had to...

  3. The first week is THE Lunar New Year

  4. I'M waiting for that

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. If you think it LOOKS like a good thing

  2. The stock market KEEPS GOING up

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  1. It COSTS $10.

  2. If I pay 10 US dollars.

🔢 Random Number Generator - 12/29

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Lifestyle Creep
    Make more $$,
    Then you spend more $$
    -> Never any money
    = The Rat Race

  2. Non-Fungible Tokens

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🏆 Completed

  1. Young Managers

  2. Disney's Brave

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📝 Action Items

  1. Watch a "Learn English with TV Series" Video

  2. Rich Dad, Poor Dad

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. With my FRIENDS

  2. It has two FLOORS

  3. To be a financial PERSON

  4. I feel numbers ARE interesting

  5. You can save each (single) PICTURE for free

  6. Grow some VEGETABLES 

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I haven't GONE to the top

  2. They FOUND some teachers to update it

  3. Like a rat RUNNING in a wheel​

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💦 Word Choices

  1. Enjoy THE hot spring on the 1st floor

🔥 Descriptions

  1. December 25th

  2. Christmas would be more ENCHANTED there

  3. These two days have been COLDER

  4. It wouldn't be CLEAN​​

  5. For New YEAR'S (Eve)

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. She FEELS left out

  2. That MEANS

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Beitou Hot Springs

  2. Story Telling

  3. Rich Dad Poor Dad

  4. NFTs

🔢 Random Number Generator - 12/15

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Sex Trade 性交易

  2. Elegant 优雅的
    Classy 優雅

  3. Walk me through
    Summarize

  4. Puppy Love
    Young Love

  5. Dominos 骨牌

  6. Inheritance 遺產

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🏆 Completed

  1. Retirement Plans

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📝 Action Items

  1. Choose 2

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. Netflix is preferable/suitable to ADULTS

  2. It's about the 1980'S in Taiwan

  3. All of THESE WOMEN are easy to talk to

  4. When we have 1 DOLLAR_

  5. There's too many THINGS to consider

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Who WAS killed

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Netflix

  2. Taxes

  3. Referendums

🔥 Descriptions

  1. The next season will COME OUT/be available 

  2. There's 2 or 3 that we SUSPECT/assume/guess

  3. I didn't understand the WHOLE video

  4. The Nuclear Waste

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. For THE recent month

  2. Sleep on THE sofa

  3. If we agree TO be separate

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. The new company HAS to...

  2. The story HAS too many new actors

🥤 "C-oh-k" 可樂 Coke is not Cock 陰莖 - 12/8 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Circus 🎪 馬戲表演  

  2. Magnet 🧲 磁鐵

  3. Intellectual Property
    Ex: Owning a Logo

  4. Outset = Begining

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. 可樂 Coke vs Cock 陰莖
    "C-oh-k" - "Caw-k"

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🏆 Completed

  1. Rich Traits

  2. Loans for Taxes

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. It saves TIME

  2. It'll show how many CHOICES you have

  3. We have to pay the SALARIES

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Before I HUNG out with my sister

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🏀 Similar Words

  1. I

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📝 Action Items

  1. 60 Financial Terms

  2. Retirement Plans Video

🔥 Descriptions

  1. You couldn't sell it EASILY (adv)

  2. To know your PROPERTY'S worth

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. If parents want TO give their money

  2. When you apply FOR a credit card

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. I

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Pronunciation "Coke"

  2. Number Generator

  3. Homework Review

  4. Financial Terms

📃 My 6-Page (a) Document is 6 Pages (n) - 11/24 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Crane 🏗️ 起重機

  2. Underemployed
    Overemployed

  3. White-collar (office)
    Blue-collar (trade)

  4. Do the Bulk/Majority of
    To do most of the work

  5. Juggling 戲法 🤹 

  6. Side Hustle
    An Extra Income

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Thoughts "Thauts"

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🏆 Completed

  1. Math on Adult Sites

  2. No Powerpoints 

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📝 Action Items

  1. 2

🐾 Plural Noun​s

  1. We discuss our IDEAS & THOUGHTS

  2. I'm not sure if my FRIENDS or family does it

  3. Some friends are TEACHERS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. It's not just TALKING about an idea

  2. At that time 101 WAS still being constructed

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🏀 Similar Words

  1. They use 6-page (adj) documents (n).
    They use a 6-page (adj) document (n).

    Their documents (n) are 6 pages (n).
    Their document (adj) style (n) is 6 pages (n).

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🔥 Descriptions

  1. Recently, in RECENT times

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. He would like to let THE world know there is a nice teacher WHO teaches.

  2. Next time you'll have to say it again

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. A crane can LIFT/PULL something up

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Numbers & Lamps

  2. Homework Review

  3. Overemployed

  4. Slang Numbers

🩸 Bloodtypes - 11/17

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. VR Goggles 🥽 風鏡
    AR Glasses 👓 眼鏡

  2. Sin 罪 

  3. Wrath = Anger

  4. Gluttony - Overeating

  5. Sloth 🦥 懶惰 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. The Racer 🏎️ 

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🏆 Completed

  1. 9 Design Tips

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Presentation Design 

  2. Random Numbers

  3. Metaverse Scams

  4. Parenting

  5. Blood Types

⚽ Plural Noun​

  1. To make SLIDES / To make A slide

  2. I often use bullet POINTS

  3. 20 ways to improve PRESENTATIONS

  4. Go over the fun NUMBERS

  5. There are 3 PEOPLE_ in front of me

  6. From FRIENDS' departments

  7. There are more VIRGOS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. When I USE English / When I'M using English

  2. if I AM using / If I USE it

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🔢 Notes

  1. Riley learned how to count 

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📝 Action Items

  1. Choose 2 assignments

🔥 Descriptions

  1. I'm interested in IT
    It's INTERESTING

  2. They are in a flat AREA

  3. They can simulate the SURGERY

  4. It's cheaper than REALITY
    It's cheaper than the real THING

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. After EACH bullet point if NEEDED (adj)
    After EACH bullet point if I FEEL THE need (n)

  2. THE 6-6 rule

  3. TO move or not

  4. How much IS the expense/payment

  5. They can't GO up or downstairs

  6. I think the simulation IS not REALISTIC enough

  7. Asian parents ARE too serious

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. When we PRESENT (v)
    When we GIVE the presentation (n)

  2. They SIMULATE a crime in a SIMULATION​

🌷 The Netherlands - 11/10

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. That's above my pay grade = You need to pay me more to do this

  2. To Interpret / 解釋

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. T

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🏆 Completed

  1. Confident Language

  2. 5 Ways to Fight Burnout

⚽ Plural Noun​

  1. To simulate a lot of DATA (Uncount)

  2. We need more evidence or DATA (Uncount)

  3. One of my FRIENDS told me

  4. 5 CELLPHONES

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. SAYING this sentence
    To SAY this sentence...

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Her Project at Work

  2. Confident Language

  3. How to Date 5 Girls

🔥 Descriptions

  1. It's

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. IT'S totally different

  2. In THE process

  3. Under THE table

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. I just heard what my boss WANTS to do

  2. When you go up, it FEELS comfortable

  3. She CALLS

  4. He THINKS

🏊‍♂️ Swimming in Shipping Containers - 10/27 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Container "Ho-Guay"

  2. Crane 🏗️ 起重機 

  3. Plug & Play 

  4. Bonkers = Crazy

  5. Rebound 反彈

  6. Spike "Sharp Increase"

  7. Cargo | Goods in transit

  8. 外交 Diplomatic 

  9. Off the Mark 🎯 

  10. Tweak 🔧 Small Change

  11. Back Burner
    Low Priority

  12. 有禮貌 Courteous 

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. T

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🏆 Completed

  1. Virtual Meetings Pg. 30

  2. Being Rich is not Perfect

  3. Famous Quotes

⚽ Plural Noun​

  1. We played a lot of PUZZLES

  2. Buying so MUCH toilet PAPER

  3. They DON'T have enough WORKERS

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. Last month I WENT to my home town

  2. First, the economy WENT down

  3. Now it has REBOUNDED

  4. They DON'T have enough containers

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🏀 Similar Words

  1. I

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📝 Action Items

  1. 2 Again. 2 Again.

🔥 Descriptions

  1. SHE has a good MEMORY

  2. We are not ENTIRELY/100% new

  3. We can sell at a HIGHER margin

  4. My PREVIOUS company (non-lover)

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​💦 Word Choices

  1. I

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🎾 Action Verbs​​

  1. She always KNOWS where is the animal

  2. One that only SELLS products

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Babysitting Kids

  2. Splitting Profit Margins

  3. Supply Shortages

  4. Virtual Meetings

🚘 The Automobile Industry - 10/13 

🌎 Vocabulary:

  1. Parade 遊行

  2. Rival 竞争对手
    Long Term & Personal

  3. Opponent 對手
    Short Term / a Stranger

  4. Jaywalking 
    Walk across the street at the wrong place or time.

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🙊 Pronunciation:

  1. Foreigners 

  2. Google MAPS

  3. Energy ⚡ 

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🏆 Completed

  1. 120 Hours a Week

  2. Tesla's R&D

⚽ Plural Noun​

  1. You can see him talking on WEBSITES

  2. The two WAYS

  3. I have to do MANY things

  4. Because of one of my FRIENDS

  5. They don't have too many DEVICES inside

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🚴‍♀️ Timed Tenses

  1. I ATE breakfast

  2. Finally I PAID it

  3. It's the first time you CAME here

  4. At that time I CHOSE it

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⌚ Lesson Time:

  1. Childhood TV Shows

  2. Automobile Market share

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📝 Action Items

  1. Two Two Two Two

🔥 Descriptions

  1. It's A convenience (n) / It's _ Convenient (adj)

  2. The CAR'S shape is different

  3. They ask for other EVIDENCE ✔️ 

  4. 1,800 (1 Thousand, 8 Hundred) (18 Hundred)