F2F Class Notes (Raph)[S]

Vocabulary

Acronym

Head count (n): 1- the exact number of people in a place, or the act of counting them:
E.g.: A quick head count revealed an audience of 56 people.
E.g.: They did a head count to figure out how much food to order.

Hypothetical (adj): 1- imagined or suggested but not necessarily real or true:
E.g.: This is just a hypothetical example.
E.g.: This is all very hypothetical but supposing Jackie got the job, how would that affect you?

Determine (v): 1- to discover the facts or truth about something:
E.g.: The police never actually determined the cause of death.
E.g.: It is the responsibility of the court to determine whether these men are innocent.
E.g.: The jury determined that the men were guilty.

Singaporean (n): 1- 新加坡人

Original:

Today I got a call from a chemical company. The recruiter of that company asked me to answer his question in English and the question was about the process of doing a budget. I answered that before I doing the budget I need to ask our sells team to get the beauty advisor’s head count for new year. After I got that head counter’s report I will combine our beauty advisor’s yearly salary for several items. And after that I will get the average amount of the items I need, then I will put the beauty advisor’s head counter into the Excel for our new budget. After that, my boss will discuss the new budget with our general manager, then they will do some adjustment for it.

Edited:

Today I got a call from a recruiter from a chemical company. He asked me a question about the budgeting process, and told me to answer in English. I said that before doing the budget I would need to ask our sales team to determine the number of beauty advisors they would need for the new year and combine this report with our BAs’ yearly salaries and other benefits. After  determining the average cost for each one of these items, I would put everything into an Excel spreadsheet and calculate the new budget. Then, my boss would discuss it with our general manager, and they would make some adjustment to it before approving it.

Grammar

It’s mean… – It means…

I think the answer is not very well. – I think my answer was not very good.

Other countries’ people. – People from other countries.

Pronunciation

Sell: /sel/

Seller: /ˈsel.ɚ/

Sale: /seɪl/

Salesman: /ˈseɪlz.mən/

Paragraph: /ˈper.ə.ɡræf/

Pedestrian: /pəˈdes.tri.ən/

Bridge: /brɪdʒ/

Hypothetical: /ˌhaɪ.pəˈθet̬.ɪ.kəl/