F2F Class Notes (Tibo) [W]

Homework


write a short English intro for your website

Today we focused on:

we focused on email

Next Class Focus

more practice on emails in more specific cases (complaining / apologizing )
+
English intro for website

Writing exercise

Dear Sir or Madam,

We are the team of CONNAIS TOI.
We followed you for a long time. We really love your design and hope to show them in our boutique.
Please allow me to introduce ourselves shortly:

We are the new boutique named “CONNAIS TOI†and based in Shanghai. We are doing the online sale, now our boutique are being decorated and being expected to be completed in October.

We are the brands collect boutique that based in Shanghai.
Focus on collecting some fashion labels to our customers.
CONNAIS TOI means meet you, we hope people can meet themselves, meet every new things, meet their own style of fashion.
We want to provide more different choices for our customers to dress themselves better. And hope customers knows more fresh design who are different from Chinese.

If you have any questions, just be free to let me know. We would be appreciated if we can cooperate from now on.


Dear Sir or Madam,

We are very impressed by your design and have followed you for a long time.
We are the team of CONNAIS TOI, a new fashion boutique based in Shanghai.
We started through online sales, and now our boutique is being decorated and is expected to be completed in October.  / we started as an online boutique and we now plan to open a physical store in October.

We are a brand collection boutique based in Shanghai.
we focus on collecting some fashion labels for our customers.  / we offer a wide collection of labels for our customers. (+ some kind of positioning)
CONNAIS TOI means know yourself, we hope people can know themselves, discover many new thing and their own fashion style
We want to provide more different choices for our customers and help them refine their fashion taste.

And hope customers knows more fresh design who are different from Chinese.
/ we aim at proving a wide variety of designs to our customers to help them discover fresh designs and ideas not easily available in China and to help them refine their fashion taste.

We would love to feature your designs in our boutique and would like to cooperate with your brand.
If you have any questions, just feel free to let me know.

I have included a pdf with more details about Connais Too

we are looking forward to your reply.

best regards 

Writing exercise

Dear Mr Smith,

Congratulations!
We are happy to inform you that you are the lucky one to be the winner of our “Super Gameâ€. So please send us your address to receive the prize we provide.

Best regards,
TEAM OF CONNAIS TOI

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Dear Mr Smith,

Congratulations!
We are happy to inform you that you are the lucky winner  / the lucky one to win our  “Super Gameâ€.
Please send us your address to receive the prize. / please send us the address at which you would like to receive the prize.
Please let us know your address and we will send the prize to you.
We are looking forward to your reply,

Best regards,
TEAM OF CONNAIS TOI

Vocabulary

refine (v) purify / reach a higher culture state
Oil is refined before being used in cars
He went to English to refine his manners

refined (adj) 优雅的
Tom is very refined he has great manners.
Refined alcohol consumers will buy 50 yo wine bottles.

rencontre (v) meet in French

connaitre (v) : know in French

(brand) positioning (n)  地ä½
Huawei has a very strong positioning, everyone knows them.

to position (v)
We position ourselves as a high level fashion boutique for trending young Chinese customers
Apple is positioned as a premium electronic brand
Xiaomi is positioned as a mass market affordable brand

introduction (n)
I sent them an introduction of our company

introduce (v)
I introduced myself

Grammar

present perfect (have + pp) : action in the past with a result in the present
I have finished the email (= I am free now)
I have lost my phone (= I can’t call anyone right now)

past simple (to talk about an action that is over)
I followed her 2 years ago.(maybe you don’t follow her anymore today)
I lost my phone(maybe you already bought a new one)