Daily conversation

Daily Conversation
1. Greetings
Hey, what’s up/new?
How ate you doing?
How is everything going?
How is your family doing?
I’m doing well.
Well, can’t be better.
Oh, just so so.
Really bad.
Allen wan sick last week, but now he feels better.
Please give my regards to him.
Don’t treat/regard yourself as a kid. Please say hello to him.
You look great/pretty today.
I haven’t seen you for/in ages.
Well, it’s really been long. /Long time no see.
2. What’s your name?
Hi, may I have your name, please? Could you please tell your name?
Will it be convenient for you if I have your name?
We must have met before.
Is Li you first name?
Clare is my first name and Li is my last/family name.
Well you spell your name?
My last name is (pronounced) Rice.
Is it you name Claire?
USA is the abbreviation of the United States of America.
Your name precedes you.
3.Introduction
You are welcome to… = Welcome to…Welcome home. Welcome aboard.
We welcome your suggestions.
It’s a welcome ceremony.
Nice having you here.
Nice meeting you.
It is nice/ happy to see you here.
It is pleased to meet you here.
Hope you have a good time/fine/fun.
I want introduce Alice to you.
We would introduce the advanced technology from aboard.
The pleasure is mine, Mr. Smith. Well, let me have a self-introduction. Have we met somewhere before?
I haven’t seen you ages. What a small world.
I am afraid I have to go now.
I hope to see you again.
Let’s keep in touch.
Call me. Do you have my number?
4. Identifying Objects
What’s this/that?
What are these/those?
It’s a cocktail.
Pardon? I beg your pardon.
Whose note book is that?
It is not mine, it may belong to Jessie. Up to now nobody has to claim the suitcase.
Where is your umbrella?
It is behind the door. It’s
above/over/beneath/below…
I look for my wallet everywhere but I can’t find it.
You must have left it in your office. Please look for it in the hotel lost-and found office. Do you remember where you misplaced it?
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5. Describing Objects
What color is your phone book? (red yellow green orange blue purple pink grey black white sand)
My book has a red cover.
You can’t take cover under a tree when it’s storming.
What kind of computer do you have? / What brand is your car?
It’s a BMW. / I bought a Toyota.
What size automobile do you want? /What size car it is?
What table shape do you like?
What style do you want?
How much is it? = What is the price of it?
How big is this apartment? = What is the coverage of the apartment?
Well, it is about 60 square meters.
How wide is it? = What is the width of it?
How long is it? = What is the length of it?
How high is it? = What is the height of it?
I prefer to walk rather than take a bus.
Will you measure this door?
6. Identifying People
Who are you? / What are you?
I’m a friend of your son. / I’m a new secretary.
Who do you think you ate? / What do you think you are?
You are the English teacher, aren’t you?
Are you Mr. Green, the office manager? (secretary office manager director the president CEO=Chief Executive Officer chairman of the board the stuff accountant teller salesman the market researchers )
He might be spokesman of today’s press conference. (host / hostess announcer / broadcaster)
Where do you come from?
I’m from Shanghai. How about you?
Beijing is my hometown.
What do you do for a living?
What’s you job/occupation?
I work for a foreign enterprise.
I’m a teacher.
I’m working in a …
Who cares?
7. Appearance
What does Cindy look like?
She has big blue eyes and blonde hair.
What sort of build of Philip?
He is a big guy.
She takes after he mother.
Roy looks exactly like his father.
He has his father’s blue eyes and his mother’s round face.
Tracy is a typical Brooks with her high cheekbones.
From her appearance, I would guess she is Asian.
Ray is popular with parents because he is very polite.
Tom is a quiet man but his wife is extremely talkative.
She can talk my ears off.
My brother has a good personality.
Jim always wears a brown overcoat these days.
8. Age
Can I ask how old you are?
I just turned twenty-three. / I’m over 20.
I was thirty on my last birthday.
I’d say you are about twenty.
Joanna is in her sixties, but she is ageing well.
Guess how old I am.
I’d rather not tell you my age.
You look younger than your age.
That singer looks mature for his age.
She is going to be eighteen, but she still acts like a kid.
I am tow years older than she is.
My mother retired at her age of 55.
Grandfather is getting on in years.
The baby boomers are all grown-ups now.
I am too old to learn computer.
9. Daily Activities
What is the typical day for you?
I usually wake up at 6:30.
My husband gets up later than I do
It takes time to get the kids dressed.
We have oatmeal and toast for breakfast.
Susan drives the children to school in the morning and picks them up after school. It is time to go to school. Hurry up.
David leaves for work at 8 o’clock every morning.
Ann often goes shopping in the supermarket after getting off of work.
Grandma prepares a big dinner for us every time we visit her home.
After lunch, I usually take a snap and then watch a soap opera.
Lisa enjoys housekeeping and her husband also helps around the house.
Jerry often does his homework till midnight.
I am used to going to bed at around 11 and I fall fast asleep.
I like reading magazines in my spare time.
10. Past Activities
What did you do last Sunday?
Pierce went to the gym to work out yesterday.
Dan stayed up watching the World Cup last night, and overslept this morning.
I run into an old friend of mine on the street this morning.
She didn’t recognize me.
Bill was shy before he got this job.
Where is John? John was here a minute ago.
Judy invited some friends to visit her new house.
Yesterday we have a good time at David’s birthday party.
Professor Smith retired two years ago.
Mary used to be diplomat, but now she works in a company.
Mr. Cooper started a company at the age of 28.
I majored in finance when I was in college.
John returned to his hometown five years later.
I told you so.
11.Meaningless but Useful Short Sentences:
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
Let me put it this way.
Well.
What is that word which you are saying? Are you asking about “my parents” or “my payments?”
The speaker does not seem to be functioning very well.
Are you saying that I should speak louder?
Rules of writing good defect description:
Use past tense in most of the descriptions, since these are the facts which you encountered. There are cases which you can use present tense. When doing so, you are emphasizing that these are the “facts.”
∙Whenever a double quote is used at the end of a sentence, its position should
b e after “.” or “?”
∙Do not use “little” or “small” to describe the word bug. It is not nice to say “a little bug” or “a small bug.” You can use “trivial” if you really want to.
∙Use uppercase for writing nouns, whenever it is appropriate. For example, “Incident List Report” is correct, while “incident list report” is not.
∙Use standard control names, for example: edit box, drop down list.
∙Use short and precise sentences as often as possible.
∙Point out the exact position of bugs, for example: helpdesk/Admin/work flow/work flow design.
∙Write down the steps of how the bugs can be reproduced.
∙Attach the snapshot if necessary.
∙Try to describe a bug in a more objective, not subjective, manner. That is, if possible try not to use “I”, “you” or “we.”
∙Show your defect description to other testers to see if they understand. If one of them cannot understand, your description is probably not clear enough. Examples:
(√means better ,it does not mean right or wrong)
(1)√The Master workflow can still be used, even after we disable it by un-checking
the “Can use unspecified workflow” check box in Admin/workflow options.
×Master workflow still can go into effect if not selecting the check box about Can use unspecified workflow
(2)√ When we use a state-based workflow, the issue type workflow dialog is not
shown in Web Client.
×There isn't dialog of issue type workflow in Web Client, which is based on State-based workflow.
(3)√Normally after checking Include all child folders, we should see that all submitted
Templates appear in the folder. On the contrary, if we uncheck the checkbox, all templates disappear. However, if we switch from Time Report tab to another tab, such as Environment Variable, and return to Time Report again, we might get incorrect result, which is that the templates appear while checkbox is unchecked.
×If uncheck Can access Template Report View , Can create public Template
Report, Can create private Template Report, and Can delete public Template
Report, We still can do settings in Window Client and Web Client.
(4)√After unchecking any of the four checkboxes, i.e. Can access Template Report
View, Can create public Template Report, Can create private Template Report, and Can delete public Template Report,I still have these privileges in Window Client and Web Client. This is incorrect.
× I f uncheck Can access Template Report View , Can create public Template
Report, Can create private Template Report, and Can delete public Template
Report, We still can do settings in Window Client and Web Client.
(5)√Finish a demo:
Ca n “new” a Knowledge Base project and show some pages. Some of these pages already have the capability of transferring data to the DB.
×Done a demo:
Could new a Knowledge Base project and show some pages. Some pages can finish all the operations to database.。