about few phrases,how to use them? 1 on the contrary is it a sponken phrase?if yes how to use?if not how to expess that menning? can i say --someone work hard,they got promoted,on the contrary,someone were lazy,they could only get the lowest salary.2,after all when i was in shcool,it is a key phrase,but i nearly got chance to use it in spoken english.someone said it was not commenly used, anyway i want to know more about it irrespective of spoken or written english.3,to be fair/but is to be fair commenly used?if it is,what is the difference with "but"4,temple of heaven and heaven temple it is a tourism attraction in beijing. i know the temple of heaven is popular now,that is just coz many people said it ,but according to grammer,why not heaven temple?many names of attractions were traslated first by chinese,i doub accuracy of it,so i want a authoritative answer from native speakers.

about merry / happy merry christmas happy new year why not happy chrismas?

stuff -- thing what are their differences? a lot of stuff in my bag or lot of things?

let s start. is it correct? when you want to start do something with someone how do you say in english?lets get started lets get it started lets start here we go what are the differences?

what or how do you think about(of) ...? what do you think about...?what do you think of ....?i used to say like that.but i just found a few people used" how "to substitute" what",is it ok? why so?is it correct ? besides what the difference between what do you think about and how would you think about? is the latter used in a conjecture?what if i say how do you think about...? or how do you think of ...? are they also correct? have you seen someone say like that?

First notebook entry: Introducing myself im a tourguide of beijing,that makes i have to promote english all the time.simply to say,i like english and this job.useing idiomatic english introduce china to foreign travellers is my dream.besides,that makes me know more about other coutries and the people there.