F2F Class Notes (Samara)[S][W]

Homework

Practice speaking all of the vocabulary examples.

Next Class Focus

Three of sixteen publicly listed e-commerce

Needs more review

acquisition – when someone gets sth / buys sth / takes sth
eg. WoWo tried to acquire SE

mature < > immature (childish)
eg. the English teaching market is still not very mature in Shanghai / market maturity is low

horizon – hai ping xian
eg. SE has many plans on the horizon

diversification / justification / beautification
eg. In this year I started my English learning plan, I hope in the last year my English level will have gone through a diversification.
eg. My justification is the company have great position to me.
eg.This summerItrytoloseweight, because I want to go  through a beautification.

profitable / likable / doable
eg. This project will be profitable.
eg. She is likable.
eg.That’s doable.

property / proprietary
eg. This creative department is this companies property.
eg. This house is empty, but I have proprietary rights to it, so if you want to rent it you have to ask me first.

enrich / encompass / encourage – to make sth more / bigger
eg. Usually I choose to go to gym and play tennis to enrich my life.
eg. Many artists be good at to search more information and to encompass and to creative a new things.
eg. Today my friend have interview so I encourage him to handle it.

underway – starting / ongoing / happening
eg. The war is underway.

offering = product / service
eg. SE tries to have many offerings for different types of customer

margin – limits of a page / limits of profit
eg. there is less margin in 1-on-1 teaching than groups

scale – to grow a company and grow profits at the same time / as the company grows the profits grow
eg. SE is trying to scale their business to grow profits

I am significantly older than you – a lot
eg. This company provide me the position is significant meaning for me.

counterpart – the same position but different situation / other side
eg. Lilly is my counterpart.

Writing exercise

When I was small I loved watching the fireworks. My mother always took me to the river to watch, we would eat ice – cream and play games. The day, we watch fireworks is the fourth of July. It is our independence day.

Speaking exercise

Every lunar year we have fireworks, in my hometown every lunar year very cold. Everytime we watch fireworks we are so cold and I hope hurry up finish so I can go home. We eat dumpling, soup inside dumpling, today dumpling called zonzi, lunar we eat jiao zi.


Every Lunar year we have fireworks, in my hometown every lunar year is very cold. Every time we watch fireworks we are so cold and I hope we hurry up and finish so I can go home. We eat dumplings, soup inside dumpling, today the dumplings are called zong zi, lunar we eat jiao zi.