Demo Class Notes (Flora – Nicholas)

Flora

– improve Business English email writing, oral/spoken English with a focus on business + listening (b/c no opportunities to practice) – brand licensing/intellectual property

Note: these levels are not final and may be changed after your first class

推荐课程（每周）/ Your Recommended Course (Weekly)

F2F: 2

Email: 2

Vocabulary

industry – the type of work or business

e.g. I have worked in the branding and IP industry for 5+ years.

demand – consumer demand – no customers wanted to buy this

e.g. If demand is low, the price is low as well / too. If demand is high, this pushes the price higher.

e.g. There was no demand for the Minions brand until the movie took off in China.

and what we can get to them / what we can [provide for them]

Grammar

the longest company is my first company / I worked for the first company the longest

Take away “THE” then make the NOUN plural.

e.g. looking for the competition with the foreign company / looking for opportunities with foreign companies

when I work in the first company / when I worked in the first company / when I worked for the first company / when I worked at the first company

most of clients know what / most of the/our clients know about this 

when I in the first company / when I was in the first company

when the minions movie is we can watch the movie in China cinema and it is popular soonest / when we could finally watch the move in Chinese cinemas – it was popular right away

I can to go abroad to have meetings with them face to face

Original

Difficult – because I think 996 this most too happened in Shanghai, BJ city because in this kind of city the salary is high but the work pressure is also high – so most jobs maybe work us to choose this pressure work and long time work to get salary to get the more, better life. We can’t choose any because we need the salary. They don’t have luxury economic foundation to choose what work they like in China – most of the young workers, and 996 is the workers most for the chen xu yuan programmer – maybe they need to do 996 – long work time.

Corrected

I think work life in China is difficult because I think 996 – this mostly happens in Shanghai and Beijing because in these kinds of cities the salary is high but the work pressure is also high – so most jobs maybe force us to choose this high-pressure work with long work hours to get higher salaries to get a better life / [to improve our lives]. We can’t choose just anything because we need the salary. They don’t have the economic foundation / [luxury] to choose what work they like in China – most of the young workers, and 996 workers are mostly programmers – maybe they need to have the 996 lifestyle / work life.

Original

I think important because I have family – my daughter – I have my parents to quit my mother quit her work to take care of my daughter so that I can work out but I have the pressure to give money to them so let them to get better life. So I think money is important to me, and what kind of work I can to do is also important, I like this industry I work and I love this company, so that’s why I want to improve my English.

Corrected

I think money is important because I have a family – including my daughter – I have my parents and my mother quit her job to take care of my daughter that I can work / work outside the house so I have pressure / feel pressure to give money to them so that they can have a better life. So I think money is important to me and what kind of work I can do is also important, I like this industry that I work in and I love this company, so that’s why I want to improve my English.

Speaking in full sentences – Don’t forget to put the subject and verb first

e.g. I think money is important.

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