1. Do you know people like that in the office -

○ 刷鞋仔: Apple polisher / yes man

There are also colleagues who just can’t say no.

○ People may take advantage of you if you are too nice.

2. Instead of saying “no”, what can we say? (useful on ema...

1. One of the many problems you may encounter when you first move aboard is probably dealing with utility companies in English.

○ When I first moved to the U.S., I found that it was more difficult to understand people on the phone than to speak to th...

1. Can be called the “Moon Festival”, “Mid-Autumn Festival” or “Mooncake Festival”

2. Why do we celebrate the Moon Festival?

● Ancient Chinese emperors worshiped the moon in autumn to thank it for the harvest 收穫；收成 . Ordinary people 普通人 took the Mi...

1. 香港故宮文化博物館 Hong Kong Palace Museum

- There’s one in China 故宮博物院 (Palace Museum).

- 故宮 = The Forbidden City

- The Hong Kong Palace Museum presents over 900 priceless treasures from the Palace Museum.

- There are various exhibitions (展覽) which dis...

1. What musical instruments 樂器 do you play?

- Ukulele is very popular at the moment.

- Drums

- Acoustic/electric guitar

- Harp 豎琴

- Flute 長笛

- Violin 小提琴

- Viola 中提琴

- Cello 大提琴

- Double Bass 低音大提琴

- Clarinet 單簧管

- Private musical instru...

1. Do you like going to theme parks?

● What do you prefer riding when you get there?

- Roller coaster

- I am worried it would stop when I am upside-down 反轉.

- I am also concerned if the over-the-shoulder harness (安全帶） would come off in the mi...

1. We’ve had five waves of COVID already, but we are still very alerted.

● News headline from The Guardian:

“Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy 清零政策 may last five

years”

- Communist party official posts notice saying mass m...

Have you had a staycation recently?

- Are you scared of staying in a hotel room by yourself?

- I am scared of 鬼壓床 (Scientists and doctors would tell you that it is just ​​sleep paralysis 睡眠癱瘓).

- Do you believe in 迷信...

1. Do you enjoy hiking?

SCMP news headline:

Cost to rescue two stranded hikers in Hong Kong runs into hundreds of thousands

- rescue 救援

- stranded 滯留的，被困住的

The whale is stranded on the beach.

- on the beach vs at the beach

at the beach - Gen...

Pandemic/ Testing

疫情 pandemic (n)

Pandemic vs epidemic?

- An epidemic（n/adj 疾病的）流行 involves the wide-ranging spread of a disease throughout an entire area or particular community where it’s not permanently prevalent.

- A pandemic 大流行病 involves...