VIP Class Notes (Tibo) [S+W]

2 – Go through some emails and bring those that you had difficulties writing

Focus on work vocabulary and how to answers boss’ requests by email

My English name is Jane and I want to improve both my spoken and writing and my job is hr and I want to can talk to the foreigners friendly in my working so I want to learn the English. American company Fossil, this company is to sell the watch and a lot of brands like Emperio Armani , Michael chors and our company products also include necklaces, earrings.  both women and men and a little for kids the brand of Adidas for kids.

I don’t have many hobbies. I like to watch the comics. The Japanese comics detective Conan and one piece. and when I was young I buy a lot of comic books and also I like do travel with my family. I just maybe around Shanghai or maybe go to Japan or Singapore.  I only went to Osaka last two years and I will go to Tokyo with family on June.

My English name is Jane and I want to improve both my speaking and writing.  I work as an HR manager and I want to be able to talk to the foreigners in a friendly way in my workplace/office so I want to learn English. It is an American company: Fossil, this is an umbrella company  which sells watches. We own/have a lot of brands such as Emperio Armani , Michael Kors and so on….and our company‘s products also include necklaces, earrings.  both for women and men and we also do something for kids with the brand Adidas for kids.

I don’t have many hobbies. I like to watch comics/anime. The Japanese manga detective Conan and One piece.  When I was young I bought a lot of comic books and I also like to travel with my family. Mostly around Shanghai or maybe Japan or Singapore.  I only went to Osaka in the last two years and I will go to Tokyo with family in June.

Vocabulary

umbrella corporation  / a company that owns many other brands
Procter & Gamble is an umbrella corporation, they have many sub brands.

accessories  装饰品
Our company mostly sell accessories

manga / Japanese comics book
I read some Japanese mangas when I was in Tokyo.

anime / animation video
I like Japanese animes.

one piece 海贼王
I like one piece.

How to apologize for mistakes:

Dear John,
I am sorry about the mistake, I overlooked it and I hope you can accept my apologies.

Dear John,
I realized there is was small mistake in the report: p2 ….

I am sorry about it, I hope it didn’t affect your work.

Please accept my apologies….

Write an email to the HK office to talk about an issue with SAP :

Dear ….,
Would you please tell me about how to set up an job code in SAP.

Best regards,

Jane.

1st e-mail structure:

• greeting
• a compliment or pleasantry (if external email) / It was nice to meet you during the team building event / I hope you had a great holiday….
• the reason for your email / I am writing to you because I have an issue with ….. / I wondered if you could help me with….
• a call to action / Could you please ….. / please let me know by Tuesday.
• a closing message / Thank you in advance / thank you for all your help with this / I am looking forward to hearing from you
• signature / best regards, Jane…..

Dear John,
It was nice to meet you during the business trip in Shanghai.
We have a new employee in the Shanghai office, could you please help me to create a job call on the SAP system for him/her.
(We need to handle the paperwork by the end of the week so it would be very kind of you if you could have a look at it in the next few days….)

Thank you for all your help.

best regards,

Jane.

….

Grammar

Talking in general -> use the plural
I like cats
Our company sells watches

talking about time and space: