Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

nothing special for me. still do a lot of things about my work and something to improve my team’s effective performance

our customer explained me that about our product design is worse than others so in Coronavirus time every company they don’t need to face a same situation. It is hard to get higher profit or opportunity so I will easy to worry about that so I need to change something to improve my performance.

In 2 weeks I spend maybe more than 40% of time on the design
I hope the customer will accept our design and say you get a little bit improvement than before.

according to explain from my customers they required me, they said you should fire your designer and find a new one so actually I do that for 1 week ago.
I uploaded the interview message but for now I couldn’t find a suitable one.


nothing special for me / same old same old.
I still do a lot of things about my work / I still focus mostly on my work / I devote a lot of time to my work

and something to improve my team’s performance / I want to find ways to improve our performance

our customer explained to me/ told me that about our product design is worse than others / doesn’t compare to our competitors’

so in Coronavirus time / during the pandemic every company  face the same situation.
It is hard to get higher profit / it is hard to increase profit / profits aren’t increasing

and there are less opportunities than before so I will easily worry about what I need to change to improve my performance. / I wonder about what I should change to make business better.

In the last 2 weeks I spent maybe more than 40% of the time on the design / I spent almost half of my time on the design
I hope the customer will accept our design proposal and recognize/notice improvement.

according to the explanation from my customers, they said you should fire your designer and find a new one so actually I did that 1 week ago.

I received a demand from my customer, they  asked me to find a new designer / they told me they didn’t want to work with the current designer anymore.
I uploaded/posted a job ad but for now I couldn’t find a suitable candidate.

Vocabulary

job ad (n): job offer on the internet
I posted a job ad on linkedin

to recognize (v) : to give credit for the work / notice
Tom was recognized for his hard work, he was promoted to manager

recognition (n)
Many employees are unhappy at work because they feel they don’t receive recognition

candidate (n): someone applying to a job
I had an interview with a candidate

pandemic (n): situation during which a virus is widespread in several countries
The pandemic is very bad for the economy

to devote (v) give a big part of your resources
I devote a lot of time to my work because I want to improve it.
This client is very demanding so we need to devote more time to them.

demanding (adj) : having a high level of requirement
this client is very demanding

same old same old : when nothing much has changed in your life
A : I haven’t seen you in a while, how have you been?
B: same old same old…

performance (n): result
We need to increase our performance

Pronunciation

profit

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