Warm ups (Remember to go over these warm ups several times this week)
Alphabet letters
m x l k j h g d
Numbers
Dozens Thousands Millions Billions Trillions 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,900,000 6,300,000 7,600,000 8,300,000 1,000,900 2,000,800 3,000,700 4,000,600 5,000,500
Say number differently
Seventy six hundred 7,600
4,800 2,900 1,700 9,500 2,300 8,100 3,900
Complex numbers
13.31 14.56 60.18 16.17 20.86
Time (Reminder: a quarter past, a quarter after, a quarter to, half past.)
You also say nine oh five (9:05) and two minutes to eight (7:58) and ten past or ten after two (2:10).
Remember AM is for morning and PM afternoon. You only use them when necessary.
7AM 6PM 1:30 2:30 3:15 4:15 5:45 6:45 7:50 8:25 Noon Afternoon Morning Evening Night
Currency
$8,000.20 €5,000.35 £1;000.80 $9,000.26 €7,000.83 £4,000.65
Format Dates
January 21, 2009 January twenty first two thousand nine
February 5, 2010 The fifth of February twenty ten (two thousand ten)
March 13, 2019 March thirteenth twenty nineteen (two thousand nineteen)
April 19, 2020 The nineteenth of April twenty twenty (two thousand twenty)
May 21, 2030 May twenty first twenty thirty (two thousand thirty)
June 30, 2015 The thirtieth of June twenty fifteen (two thousand fifteen)
Remember
One and a half hours.
Two and a half weeks.
Weather
Sun There will be sun this afternoon.
Cloud There isn’t a cloud in the sky.
Rain We are expecting rain.
Showers There will be showers later.
Snow Was there any snow last week?
Fog The airport closed because of fog.
Hot It has been hot lately.
Cool It is quite cool here.
Warm Will it warm up?
Mild It has been mild lately.
Cold Is it cold?
Degrees How many degrees is it?
25 Celsius It is 25 Celsius.
-15 Celsius It was minus 15 Celsius.
22 Fahrenheit It is 22 Fahrenheit.
-35 Fahrenheit It was minus 35 Fahrenheit.
Phrasal verbs
To break:
down into out of up away
To have a break down is to loose control. My boss had a break down.
To break into is to enter forcefully. Steve will break into the database later.
To break out of is to escape. How will we break out of the office? The door is locked.
To break up is to fall apart. The company broke up.
To break away is to escape from. She broke away from the group.
Using
1) I had met with the new team by the time the project began.
2) He hadn’t seen the new boss before the meeting.
3) She hadn't written the company address before leaving.
4) You had found an answer by the time we began.
5) The team had not made the decision.
6) He’d been with the new boss for two years when he changed.
7) They’d realized that it was a good plan.
8) Mike’d endured the pressure before the project ended.
9) Had the situation changed before they arrived?
10) Had the consulting team not been active before they met?
11) Hadn’t the board thought about it?
12) They’d not seen him.
13) Hadn’t the difficult situation resulted in the problem?
14) I had reviewed the plan prior to talking to his boss.
15) Had they met the new team member at the trade show?
Lower the bar
If the standards are too difficult you lower the bar to make it easier.
The department had to lower the bar after they found bugs in the program.
Look on the bright side
When something has gone wrong looking on the bright side means looking in a positive way.
After they lost the bid, the manager said look at the bright side. We got the other contract.
to look after number 1
Doing things in your own interest is looking after number one.
You should look after number one when you consider your career progress.