1. New year's eve, New year's Day.
New Year's Eve ---> December 31
New Year's Day ---> January 1
My wife should work until 10 o'clock at night on New Year's Eve.
My mission would be to make him to go to bed before 10PM.
I hope you have a good year. --> This could sound like we won't meet next year.
--> Have a good week! Have a good evening!
I hope your year is good.
I can't believe it's the end of the year.
I hope we can get back to normal.
2. the sweet spot between ~, the sweet spot where~
(A is) the sweet spot between B and C.
--> We need to find the sweet spot between their goals and ours.
....the sweet spot where S + V + O.
--> We need to find the sweet spot where [both our customers and we]/[both of us] are happy.
Sentence Structure & Grammar.
catch a taxi
During their stay (During + N)
It was really fun.
very tiny/small people --> physically, they are small
very tiny/small group of people --> the group is small
evening ---> from dinner time to around when people go to bed
Sorry for being late.
Vocabulary.
progressive dinner --> an event where you have each course of your dinner at a different place
catered meal --> when a catering company prepares a meal for an event
summarize (V)
summary (N)
---> When summarizing, ask yourself: If I leave a detail out of my summary, does my summary's meaning still completely match the meaning of the original text?
Stress & Pronunciation.
involved
present (V) --> (pree-ZENT)
present (N/ADJ) --> (PREH-zint)
map of them (MAPuvthum)
ideas (i-DEAS)
hypotheses (hy-PAH-thuh-sees)
hypothesis
thesis (THEE-sis)
theses (THEE-seez)
closer to yours (CLOSER-duhyerz)