Numbers (Eng)

• Two-and-a-half thousand (2,500) 
(Here, the noun being modified isthousand. That is why there is no hyphen between Two-and-a-half andthousand.)
• Two-and-a-half-thousand soldiers 
(Here, the compound adjective isTwo-and-a-half-thousand. In this example, thousand is part of the adjective modifying soldiers.)
• 3-and-a-quarter million (3,250,000) 
• 3-and-a-quarter-million pounds 
• one-and-a-half dozen (18) 
• one-and-a-half-dozen eggs 

Are you entitled to the public holidy pay on Easter Satursday and Sunday even if you don't work on those days?

An employee doesn’t get paid for a public holiday if they don’t normally work on the day that the public holiday falls.

Example: No ordinary hours on a public holiday

John is a part-time employee. He works Monday to Wednesday each week. This year, Boxing Day falls on a Friday.
As John’s rostered hours don’t include Fridays, he doesn’t get paid for the Boxing Day public holiday.
All employees have a right to be absent from work on a day or part day that is a public holiday.
An award, enterprise agreement or other registered agreement can set out other rules about not working on a public holiday.

Example: Ordinary hours and overtime hours falling on a public holiday

Claire is a full-time employee who usually works overtime on top of her ordinary hours on a Wednesday. She gets an overtime payment for these overtime hours under her award.
Wednesday 1 January is New Year’s Day, which is a public holiday, so Claire has the day off. Even though Claire doesn’t go to work, she still gets her base pay rate for the ordinary hours she would have normally worked. She is not entitled to payment for the overtime hours.


Ref: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/public-holidays/not-working-on-public-holidays#1929-1947

1.1.18 Eng.

Transcript:

- What male friend? Oh, he's very cute. You have good taste. Hands in the air, not in the nose. 'One, two, three, one, two, three.' You'll have to walk faster than that. You're gonna have to turn into Flo-Jo to get away from me. This is about a boy. Of course, can't believe, I didn't see it. All those talk about money and bus rides, you got a thing going with a guy, you don't wanna leave school. - I'm going to bed. - God, I'm so dense. That should've been my first thought. After all, you're me. - I'm not you. - Really? Someone willing to throw important life experiences outta the window to be with a guy? It sounds like me to me. Whatever. So, who is he? There's no guy. Dark hair. romantic guy, Looks a little dangerous. - This conversation is over. Tattoos are good too. I don't wanna change schools because of the reasons I've already told you a thousand times.

If you don't wanna believe me, that's fine. Good night. Does he have a motorcycle? 'Cause if you're gonna throw your life away, he better have a motorcycle! I think that went well, don't you? Thanks for the knock. Listen. Can we just start all over? Ok, you tell me all about the guy, I promise not to let my head explode, huh? Rory, please talk to me. Ok, I'll talk. Don't get me wrong. Guys are great. I am a huge fan of guys. Don't get knocked up at sixteen being indifferent to guys. Babe, guys are always going to be there. This school isn't. It's more important. It has to be more important. I'm going to sleep. Rory. You've always been the sensible one in this house, huh? I need you to remember that feeling now. You will kick your own butt later if you blow this. Well, it's my butt. Good comeback. Thank you. You're welcome. Rory, come on. I don't wanna talk about this. Could you please, please just leave me alone? Ok.

Vocabs

Flo Jo

 

Taken in the contest of the song Baby's Got Back by Sir-Mix-Alot he is referring to Florence Griffith Joyner a track athlete in the 1988 Olympics who defiantly fits all the other descriptions of what he likes in women mentioned in that song. Not some soda why on earth would you want to keep your women like a soda anyway?

You can have them bimbos,
I'll keep my women like Flo Jo 

 

#sir-mix-alot#baby's got back#butts#rap#1990's

 

dense adjective (STUPID)

uk ​ /dens/ us ​ /dens/

informal stupid:

There are some really dense people in our class.

 

indifferent adjective

uk ​ /ɪnˈdɪf.ər.ənt/ us ​ /ɪnˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/

indifferent adjective (NOT INTERESTED)

C2 not thinking about or interested in someone or something:

Why don't you vote - how can you be so indifferent (to what is going on)?
He found it very hard teaching a class full of indifferent teenagers.

 

knock sb up

(MAKE PREGNANT)

slang to make a woman pregnant:
You don't want to get knocked up by some guy you hardly know.

knock sb up
— phrasal verb with knock uk ​ /nɒk/ us ​ /nɑːk/ verb

(WAKE UP)
​
UK informal to wake someone up by knocking on the door of their house or bedroom:
I'm sorry to have to knock you up in the middle of the night.

 

sensible adjective

uk ​ /ˈsen.sə.bəl/ us ​ /ˈsen.sə.bəl/

sensible adjective (GOOD JUDGMENT)

​B1 based on or acting on good judgment and practical ideas or understanding:
a sensible answer/approach/compromise/option
a sensible person
I think the sensible thing to do is call and ask for directions.
It would be sensible to take an umbrella.
​
Sensible clothes or shoes are practical and suitable for the purpose they are needed for, rather than being attractive or fashionable:
It could be cold and wet so pack some sensible clothes.

More examples
I'm sure Jenny can be relied on - she seems eminently sensible.
That would be a more sensible way of dealing with the problem.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to eat now before we go?
It would seem more sensible to do the research now before we start on the project.
That was a very sensible decision.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
sensible adjective (AWARE)
​
formal having an understanding of a situation:
He did not appear to be sensible of the difficulties that lay ahead. 

 
start over US UK start afresh
— phrasal verb with start uk ​ /stɑːt/ us ​ /stɑːrt/ verb

​ to begin to do something again, sometimes in a different way:
We decided to abandon the first draft of the report and start over.
The agreement allows old expectations to be forgotten and everyone can start afresh. 

 

 thing noun uk ​ /θɪŋ/ us ​ /θɪŋ/

thing noun (OBJECT)


A1 [ C ] used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid naming it:
What's that thing over there?

think verb uk ​ /θɪŋk/ us ​ /θɪŋk/ thought, thought



think verb (CONSIDER)
​

A1 [ I or T ] to believe something or have an opinion or idea:
[ + (that) ] I think (that) I've met you before.
I don't think Emma will get the job.
"Do you think (that) you could get me some stamps while you're in town?"
[ + to infinitive ] He was thought to have boarded the plane in New York.
What did you think of the film?
Salmon used to be thought of as expensive/a luxury.
What do you think about the latest plans for improving the undergroundsystem?
I think it is important to learn English.



going noun uk ​ /ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ us ​ /ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/

going noun (SPEED)

​
› [ U ] how quickly you do something:
The traffic was terrible so it was slow going.

 

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/going

with preposition uk ​ /wɪð/ us ​ /wɪð/

with preposition (COMPANY)

​

A1 used to say that people or things are in a place together or are doing something together:
I was with Sylvia at the time.
He lives with his grandmother.

Learn English: Eating out in Australia

There are lots of options when it comes to eating out in Australia. Here are some useful words that are good to know when you are eating out.



dessert noun [ C or U ] UK ​ /dɪˈzɜːt/ US ​ /dɪˈzɝːt/

​

A2 sweet food eaten at the end of a meal:
a dessert fork/spoon
For dessert there's apple pie or fruit.
If you make the main course, I'll make a dessert.

dine  verb [ I ] UK ​ /daɪn/ US ​ /daɪn/ formal


to eat the main meal of the day, usually in the evening:
I hate dining alone.
We dined by candlelight.

doggie  noun [ C ] US ​ /ˈdɔ·ɡi/ a child’s word


a dog

Making a payment in Australia

You may be asked if you want to use cash or credit when you buy things in Australia. Watch this video to learn some useful words!



Ref: A+

အရင္းအနွီး မရွိလည္း ေအာင္ၿမင္ေစနုိင္တဲ႔အခ်က္ ( ၃ ) ခ်က္

လူတစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ကေၿပာၾကတယ္ အရင္းအနွီး မရွိရင္ မေအာင္ၿမင္နုိင္ပါဘူးကြာ ။ လက္ထဲတစ္ၿပားမွမရွိဘဲ ဘာလုပ္လို႔ရမွာလဲဆိုတဲ႔ ဆင္ေၿခေတြက ေနာက္က ကပ္ပါလာတတ္ပါတယ္ ။ ဒီလို အငုံ႕စိတ္အေတြးအေခၚေတြ ေၿပာင္းလဲနုိင္ဖို႔ နည္းလမး္ေလး သုံးခုမွ်ေ၀ခ်င္ပါတယ္ ။

ပညာရပ္ဆုိင္ရာမွာ ထူးခၽြန္ေနမယ္

သင္၀ါသနာပါတဲ႔ဘာသာရပ္တစ္ခုမွ သင္ကၽြမ္းက်င္ေနခဲ႔မယ္ဆို သင္႔ဆီကို အရင္းအနွီး ေပးမည္႔ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္ ေတြ ၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ စီးပြားေရးသမား ေတြလိုက္လာမွာပါ ။ဒါ႔ေၾကာင္ ဘယ္အလုပ္ကိုလုပ္လုပ္ နံပတ္တစ္ၿဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္ခဲ႔မယ္ဆို ၾကီးမားတဲ႔ေငြေၾကးစိုက္ထုတ္မႈမရွိဘဲ သင္ေအာင္ၿမင္လာမွာပါ ။

အေပါင္းအသင္း မ်ားမယ

ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ႔သူငယ္ခ်င္း အေပါင္းအသင္း မ်ားၿခင္းက သင္႔အတြက္တန္ဖိုးရွိတဲ ႔အရင္းအနွီး တစ္ခုပါပဲ ။ ဥပမာ သင္ စားေသာက္ဆုိင္ တစ္ခုဖြင္႔ခဲ႔မယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာင္ သင္႔မွာအေပါင္းအသင္းအင္အားေတာင္႔တင္းေနရင္ သူတို႔ရဲ႕အားေပးမႈနဲ႔တင္ သင္႔ စီးပြားေရး အစပထမက စိုေၿပနုိင္ပါတယ္ ။ သင္ေပါင္းသင္းတဲ႔သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြဟာ တစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔တစ္ေယာက္ အၿပန္အလွန္အက်ဳိးၿပဳနုိင္မည္႔သူေတြဆုိရင္ေတာ႔ သင္႔လုပ္ငန္းတိုးတက္ဖို႔ေအာင္ၿမင္နုိင္ပါတယ္ ။ တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ ကိုယ္က အုိင္ဒီယာေကာင္းတစ္ခုရၿပီး စီးပြားေရး တစ္ခုမထူေထာင္နုိင္ေသးရင္ ရင္းနွီးတဲ႔သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြနဲ႔ စပ္တူရွယ္ၿပီး သင္႔အိမ္မက္ေတြအေကာင္းအထည္ ေဖာ္လို႔ရပါတယ္ ။ ေယဘုယ်အားၿဖင္႔ေတာ႔ အေပါင္းအသင္းမ်ားတာ သင္႔အတြက္အရႈံးမရွိပါဘူး ။

အဂၤလိပ္စာကၽြမ္းက်င္မယ္

အဂၤလိပ္စာ ကၽြမ္းက်င္တဲ႔အခါ Linkedin တို႔လို Social Media ေတြမွာ သင္႔ စီးပြားေရး အတြက္ ပိုမုိေထာက္ပံ႔ေပးနုိင္မည္႔ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္ ေတြနဲ႔ ထိေတြ႕နုိင္ပါတယ္ ။ ဒါ႔အၿပင္ကိုယ္တုိင္လည္း ကိုယ္႔ စီးပြားေရး အတြက္ ဘယ္လိုလုပ္ငန္းရွင္က ေထာက္ပံ႔ေပးနုိင္လိမ္႔မယ္ဆိုတာ ၾကိဳတင္တြက္ဆထားၿပီး ရင္းနွီးကၽြမ္းက်င္ေအာင္လုပ္ေဆာင္သင္႔ပါတယ္ ။ ဘာသာစကားရဲ႕အေရးပါမႈက ေၿပာစရာမလိုေအာင္ သင္သိၿပီးသားၿဖစ္မွာပါ ။ သင္႔မွာလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ၿဖစ္ခ်င္တဲ႔ စိတ္ရွိရင္ေတာ႔ အဂၤလိပ္စာကၽြမ္းက်င္ေအာင္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ထားဖို႔လိုအပ္ပါတယ္ ။
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ေယာက္်ားေတြ လက္မထပ္ခ်င္တဲ့ မိန္းမ အမ်ိဳးအစား(၅)မ်ိဳး

 

အိမ္ေထာင္တစ္ခုကို တည္ေဆာက္တဲ့အခါမွာ အိမ္ေထာင္ဘက္ႏွစ္ဦးစလုံးဟာ သမစိတၱ၊ သမသီလ၊ သမစာဂ၊ သမပညာ စတဲ့အခ်က္ေတြ တူညီေလ အိမ္ေထာင္ေရးသာယာေလလုိ႔ ေရွးပညာရွိေတြက မိန္႔ဆုိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဘယ္သူပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ အတၱသိပ္ႀကီးလြန္းတဲ့သူဆုိရင္ လက္မတြဲလုိၾကပါဘူး။ အမ်ိဳးသားေတြကလည္း ေအာက္မွာေဖာ္ျပထားတဲ့ မေကာင္းတဲ့ အရည္အခ်င္းနဲ႔ ျပည့္စုံေနတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြဆုိရင္ လက္ထပ္ဖုိ႔ ေရွာင္ၾကဥ္ၾကပါတယ္။

(၁) လႊမ္းမုိးခ်ဳပ္ကုိင္လုိသူႏွင့္၊ သ၀န္တုိလြန္းအားႀကီးသူ

 

 

အခ်ိဳ႕မိခင္ေတြက သမီးေတြ အိမ္ေထာင္မက်ခင္ကတည္းက ေယာက္်ားကို ဘယ္လုိ ႏုိင္ကြက္ကိုင္ရမလဲဆုိတာ ႀကိဳသင္ ထားတတ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ကက်ေတာ့ ကိုယ့္ကုိယ္ကုိ သိပ္ထက္ျမတ္တယ္လုိ႔ ယူဆၿပီး၊ ရလာတဲ့ခ်စ္သူကို ၾသဇာေပး တယ္၊ ပညာျပတယ္၊ လုိသလုိပုံသြင္းဖုိ႔ ႀကိဳးစားၾကတယ္၊ အစစအရာရာ ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ၿပီး၊ ေနာက္ဆုံး သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြနဲ႔ေတာင္ အဆက္အသြယ္ အလုပ္မခံေတာ့တဲ့အထိ ျဖစ္တတ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိအမ်ိဳးသမီးဆုိရင္ ေယာက္်ားေတြက ထားသြားတတ္ပါတယ္။

(၂) ဘာလုပ္လုပ္ မိဘဆီကုိ အစီရင္ခံေလ့ရွိသူ

 

တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြကေတာ့ ငယ္ငယ္ကတည္းက အလြန္ခ်ဳပ္ျခယ္ခံရတဲ့ပတ္၀န္းက်င္မွာ ေနခဲ့ရလုိ႔ မိဘေတြဆုိရင္ တုန္ေနေအာင္ ေၾကာက္တတ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ သမီးရည္းစား ကိစၥမ်ိဳးမွာေတာင္ သူမဟာ ပါမစ္မရဘဲ၊ ဘာမွမလုပ္ရဲပါဘူး။ ေနာက္ဆုံး သူ႕ဘာသူ အမ်ိဳးသားတစ္ေယာက္ကို ဘယ္ေလာက္ပဲ ႏွစ္သက္ ႏွစ္သက္ အေဖအေမခြင့္မျပဳရင္ သြားေပေတာ့လုိ႔ ေျပာရမွာ ၀န္မေလးၾကပါဘူး။ ဒီလုိပုံစံဆုိရင္လည္း အမ်ိဳးသားေတြက သေဘာမက်ၾကပါဘူး။

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ပန္ကန္ေဆးတဲ့ေဖာ့ျပားနဲ႔ ဆံပင္ကို waves style ေဖာ္နည္း

 

(၃) စိတ္ထဲကေန ေတးမွတ္ေလ့ရွိတဲ့သူ

 

အခ်ိဳ႕ကေတာ့ အၿငိႇုဳးအေတး ႀကီးပါတယ္။ တစ္စုံတစ္ေယာက္ရဲ႕ အျပစ္ေတြကို စိတ္ထဲကေန ေတးမွတ္ထားၿပီး၊ အခြင့္သင့္တာနဲ႔ လက္စားေခ်ဖုိ႔ ၀န္မေလးၾကပါဘူး။ တစ္ခါတေလ ရက္စြဲေတြ၊ အခ်ိန္ေတြ နာရီေတြနဲ႔ေတာင္ တိတိက်က် မွတ္ထားတတ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါကို သူတုိ႔ဘာသာသူတုိ႔ ငါက စိတ္ႀကီးတယ္၊ မဟုတ္ရင္ မခံဘူးဆုိၿပီး တစ္လြဲဂုဏ္ယူေနတတ္ပါ တယ္။ ဒီလုိပုံစံနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသမီးကို အေၾကာင္းသိသူေတြကေတာ့ လက္ထပ္ဖုိ႔စိတ္ကူးမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။

(၄) အေပ်ာ္အပါးႀကီးလြန္းသူ

 

တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြကေတာ့ အေပ်ာ္အပါး အလြန္မက္ပါတယ္။ အခ်ိန္ျပည့္ ခရီးထြက္လုိေနၿပီး၊ ပါတီဆုိလဲ သြားကဲလုိက္တာပဲ၊ ႐ႈိးပြဲဆုိလဲ ထိပ္ဆုံးက၊ အားရင္ ေစ်း၀ယ္စင္တာသြားဖုိ႔ေလာက္ စိတ္ကူးရွိၾကပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕အမ်ိဳးသမီးကေတာ့ ဒီထက္ ပိုဆုိးပါတယ္။ ညဘက္ ညဥ့္နက္သန္းေခါင္မွာ ပါတီေတြတက္၊ မနက္ လင္းပိုင္းမွ မူးမူးကန္းကန္းနဲ႔ အိမ္ျပန္ေရာက္လာ၊ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္မွာေတာင္ မိဘေတြကို ရွက္စရာေတြ ဖန္တီးၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိပုံစံကို မွန္သည္ မွားသည္ဆုိတာထက္ ဓာတ္သိတဲ့အမ်ိဳးသားေတြကေတာ့ လက္ထပ္လုိစိတ္ ရွိမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။

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အမ်ိဳးသားေတြသင့္ကိုစိတ္ဝင္စားရင္ ျဖစ္တတ္တဲ့လကၡဏာရပ္မ်ား

 

(၅) ႏႈတ္ၾကမ္း/အာၾကမ္း/လွ်ာၾကမ္း

 

အခ်ိဳ႕မိန္းမေတြကေတာ့ ႐ုပ္ကေလးနဲ႔ မလိုက္ဖက္စြာ၊ ေျပာလုိက္ရင္ တစ္ဖက္သားကို သိကၡာက်ေစ၊ အရွက္ရေစ၊ ျပန္မလွန္ႏုိ္င္ေအာင္ ဖိေျပာတတ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါကို သူတုိ႔က “တုိ႕ကေတာ့ ဘြင္းဘြင္းပဲ စိတ္ထဲမေတြ႕ရင္ ဒဲ့ရွင္းတာ”ဆုိၿပီး ဂုဏ္ယူၾကပါေသးတယ္။ ဒီလိုအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ိဳးကို အိမ္ေထာင္ဘက္အျဖစ္နဲ႔ ေနာက္မွ စဥ္းစားပါ။ အရင္ဆုံး ခ်စ္သူဘ၀မွာတင္ အေတာ္ေလး သင္ခန္စားေတြ ေပးႏုိင္တဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

မဒီေလး (Shwemom)
source : huffingtonpost.com

The business of English Can I help you? Ep 11 Part 2

Transcripts:

 Often it's not convenient to speak to someone straight away. 'If he's available' really means, 'If he wants to speak to me at the moment.'

Here's some useful phrases for asking for someone on the phone:

Is Mr Wilson available please?
Could I speak to Mr Wilson if he's available?
Could you put me through to Mr Wilson?
I'd like to speak to Mr Wilson if possible please.

So we can say:  I'd like to speak to Mr Wilson, or Could I speak to Mr Wilson? and If he's available, or If possible. And you always add please. And another phrase is: Could you put me through please? The receptionist says: "I'll just see if he's available," then, "hold the line please". But Mr Wilson isn't available, so this is what she says: I'm sorry, Mr Wilson's in a meeting at the moment. 'In a meeting' is code for it's not convenient for him to talk at the moment.' He may be in a meeting, but he could also be out, or doing something else.

Here's some phrases to practise, that can be used for this situation.

I'm sorry, he's in a meeting at the moment.
I'm sorry, he's not available at present.
I'm sorry, he's out of the office at the moment.

And here's one not to use.

I'm sorry, he's busy.
Too busy to talk to me obviously.

To say someone can't talk because they're busy, suggests that your call is not important. But the receptionist knows what to say, and to ask if there's a message.

May I take a message.


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