Demo Class Notes (Astrid – Tibo)

I am Astrid and the reason why I come here is I changed my job recently

I was graduated 6 years ago with master

I was in Adidas and then joined Sephora but during the past 6 years I used English for email writing or meetings but I do not have the needs to independently communicate with the global team

Now I changed my job to Loreal and I can foresee that if I want further development in my career I need English to communicate smoothly .

I am confident when I have oral situation. I found there are a lot of colleagues who are from Europe surrounded me.
I don’t say hello because I worry they start to communicate with me.

some projects needs global support.
If they present something to me I will get lost.
For the things I am not familiar with I cannot catch up quickly.
Maybe because of vocabulary and accent
If we have a meeting always it is conference call and the connect is not very good.

Before I presented it I can prepare, if they ask some questions maybe sometimes I will be difficult for me to answer it.
sometimes I don’t get what they are asking about or I don’t know how to answer.

I guess my job will focus on projects and finance related project. Digital marketing. For example do some market share analysis of our competitors.
I did things like CRM revamp and I also in charge of our brand PnL

Not very comfortable with graphs. I am afraid they ask me question

The most important is I have no confidence and I will be shy when I come to a new environment but when I become familiar with them I can’t perform well but I think the first communication is important.

I agree with black lives matter because people say we were born equally but it is hard to see everyone as the same. Sometimes black people indeed perform not very well and others will have some bad words.
at the point of government they need to have the laws to protect the black people in a lot of situations like work and their daily life but it is hard to ask the normal people to have the same attitude toward them.

He needs to take care of his behavior

Sephora supply chain was not impacted a lot because a lot of our products are products locally and we had enough inventories to sold out.
The problem was our sales
They may buy a lot of cosmetics in domestic but because Sephora is only a retail and brands had discounts they go to brands directly.
We cannot have the same deep discount as them.
people prefer to shopping online and the discount is not very deep online.
For Sephora sales comes a lot from retail stores.
Better but not come back to 2019

I am Astrid and the reason why I come here is I changed my job recently / I am Astrid and I decided to come here because I changed my job

I graduated 6 years ago with a master in public finance

I was in Adidas and then joined Sephora but during the past 6 years I mostly used English for email writing or meetings but I did not have the needs to independently communicate with the global team

Now I changed my job to L’oreal and I can foresee that if I want further develop in my career I need English to communicate smoothly . / I don’t want English to be a blockade in my career

I am not confident / I lack confidence when I have oral situation / communicate orally.
I found there were a lot of colleagues who are from Europe and surrounded me.
I don’t say hello because I worry they start to communicate with me.

some projects need global support.
If they present something to me I will get lost. / I find it hard to follow
For the things I am not familiar with I cannot catch up quickly.
Maybe because of vocabulary and accent
If we have a meeting it is always  conference call and the connection is not very good / unstable

Before I present it I can prepare, if they ask some questions maybe sometimes I will be difficult for me to answer them.
sometimes I don’t get what they are asking about or I don’t know how to answer.

I guess my job will focus on projects and finance related project. Digital marketing. For example I may need to do some market share analysis of our competitors.
I did things like CRM revamp and I was also in charge of our brand PnL

Not very comfortable with graphs. I am afraid they ask me question

The most important is I have no confidence and I will be shy when I come to a new environment but when I become familiar with them I can perform well but I think the first impression is important.

I agree with black lives matter because people say we were born equally but in practice, people find it hard to see everyone as equals  / to treat everyone without bias

Sometimes black people indeed do not perform as well as expected and others will be critical / criticize them
at the point of the government they need to have the laws to protect the black people in a lot of situations like work and their daily life / the government needs to make sure black people are legally protected  but it is hard to ask the normal people to have the same attitude toward them.

the rich people has a lot of money and 90% of society’s wealth is in 1% of people / the society is very unequal
He needs to take care of his behavior

I just watched tv and saw him.

Sephora’s supply chain was not impacted a lot because a lot of our products are produced/made locally and we had enough inventories to match demand
The problem was our sales
They may buy a lot of cosmetics in the domestic market / buy domestically   but because Sephora is only a retail store and brands had deeper / bigger / heavier discounts they went to brands directly.
We cannot match their discounts / we were unable to lower the price of our products.

people prefer to shop online and the discount is very deep online. / products are offered with a better price online 
For Sephora sales comes a lot / mostly from retail stores.
things are better but have not come back to the level of 2019

Vocabulary

apprehension (n) : stress / fear / anxiety
I had a strong apprehension before the job interview 

apprehend (v) : stress / arrest
The police apprehended the criminal
I apprehend the Q&A time

to chant (v/n) repeat a phrase with a rhythm
The protestor chanted stop the war

awkward (adj)

bias (n)

prejudice (n)