F2F Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

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I am Lily, I work for ALDI for 2 months, I work as a government affairs officer to deal with / correct some policy information. I contact the government.
There are a lot of germans in my company so a little difficult to contact with them.
They say English is very strange . Hard to understand .
So I need to improve my English. accent and words. There are a lot of words I want to say but I don’t know how to say it.
Writing I can read on the translator.
Need to write email, meetings. Just listen.

We need to do some license so we need to update every week.
License for example business license we need new stores so we need new licenses.

I am Lily, I have been working for ALDI for 2 months / I started working for Aldi 2 months ago.
I work as a government affairs officer/my job title is government affairs officer. My job is to deal with / correct some policy information.
I contact the government / I am the link between Aldi and the Chinese government.
There are a lot of germans in my company so it is a little difficult to communicate with them.
They speak English in a strange way . / with a strange accent. / they have a strange accent when they speak English./ they have a strong accent when they speak English

they are hard to understand / their accent is hard to understand.

So I need to improve my English. accent and vocabulary. There are a lot of words I want to say but I don’t know how to say them.  / I lack a lot of words / there are many things I want to say but I don’t have the words.

Writing I can read on the translator. / I can rely on /us the help of the translator for writing
I need to write emails, join meetings/ attend meetings/participate in meetings. I usually just listen.

We need to get /obtain / apply for licenses because we need to open new stores. / because we need a new license for each store we want to open.

first we need a business license and then we need different types of license for each category of product The wine license and the food license. So we need to go to xuhui district administration center to apply for these licenses

Vocabulary

invoice (n) : 发票 / document asking you to pay for something
I sent the invoice to our client and they will pay us within the week

receipt (n) 发票 : proof of payment
I kept the receipt from the taxi

category : kind / type
products in the shop are organized by categories: drinks are together, vegetables are together…

To categorize (v) : to put in different categories
I need to categorize these books based on when they were written.

to apply (v) :申请
I applied for a job and was accepted
We applied for a new license to open a store

application (n)
they refused our application.

to participate (v): take part in
I participated in the meeting

participation (n)
Her participation really helped us

to recommend (v) 推荐
to improve your vocabulary I would recommend reading a lot

industry (n) : field in which one works
I am a teacher I work in the teaching industry.
I am working in the retail industry

administration (n)
I submitted the documents to the administration

to submit : hand over / give
I submitted the document on Monday and we need to way 5 working days before the decision.

verb (v) 动词
work is a verb.
in the sentence I sleep late, the verb is sleep.

noun (n)名词
computer is a noun

adjective (adj)形容词
tall is an adjective
John is tall
I have a big house

adverb (adv)副词
quickly is an adverb
I quickly closed the door

vocabulary (n) : word base /number of words
I need to improve my vocabulary so that I can read more difficult books

contact (v/n) : get in touch (write an email / call / say hi…)
I contacted (v) John to invite him to my birthday party
I don’t have his contact (n)

to communicate (v) : have a conversation
It was hard to communicate because we spoke 2 different languages

communication (n)
Communication on the phone is more difficult than face to face.

Pronunciation

really

rely

administration