F2F Class Notes (Lily) [S]

Homework

write your business plan using the vocabularies from today.

Vocabulary

1. imitate= 模仿
mimick= 模仿
ex: Little kids learn by mimicking their parents.

2. goosebumps= 鸡皮疙瘩
ex: I get goosebumps when I use that mask, it’s disgusting.
ex: Sometime if you see a sad movie, you get goosebumps. 

3. supplier= 供货商 供应商
ex: she will look for the supplier. 

4. responsible for =负责
ex: I am responsible for the IT department.
ex: I am responsible for designing the webpage.

5. commission= 提成
ex: I get a 40% commission for the sales.

6. inventory= 存货 (IN ventory)
ex: It’s good to have online stores because you have less inventory in stock.
ex: it’s hard to sell old inventories. 

7. in stock= 现货
ex: is this in stock? 有现货吗?
ex: this is not in stock, but we can order for you.

8. warehouse =仓库
ex: we don’t have a warehouse because we want to minimize our cost, and maximize our benefit.

9. cost (noun)=成本
save cost= 节约成本
ex: When you have an online shop, the cost is very low because you have no rent.

10. expense (noun)= 支出
ex: The expense is too high to have an actual retail store.

11. wholesale= 批发
ex: if you do wholesale business then you should find a supplier on Alibaba.

12. clock-in  打卡
clock-out 打卡
ex: In SE, we don’t have to clock-in or clock-out because we can’t leave early anyways. hahahahaha

13. allocate the resources= 分配资源
ex: she will allocate the resources and tell me what to do.

Speaking exercise

I’m going to open an online pet store. We don’t sell pets, we just sell their food, toys and snacks. I just decide the logo before I came here. It will be opened in September. He told me his cat has some problems so he has eat some special food. A friend who work in a pet company and she gets some resource, she find to me and discuss these things. I am responsible for design. You have to finish the picture of the product, online store and product details. Maybe I have to find some clients in my friends to buy our cat food. We find some suppliers who has the import brand. My friend always buy some expensive brands. I went to the pet exhibition yesterday and I saw a lot of brands were showing. Some people don’t have inventory, I can put the product online, but we don’t have in stock, when people pay for it, the factory will deliver the product.

Revised

I’m going to open an online pet store. We don’t sell pets, we just sell their food, toys and snacks. I just decided on the logo before I came here. It will be opened in September. He told me his cat has some problems so he has eat some special food. A friend who work in a pet company will allocate the resources, she found me to discuss these things. I am responsible for designing. You have to finish the picture of the product, online store and product details. Maybe I have to find some clients among my friends circle to buy our cat food. We will look for some suppliers who have the imported brands. My friend always buys some expensive brands. I went to the pet exhibition yesterday and I saw a lot of brands were showing. Some people don’t have inventory, I can put the products online, but we don’t have them in stock, when people pay for it, the factory will deliver the products.