Demo Class Notes (Sophia – Tibo)

Sophia

She works in a trading company (furniture + computers / B2B) and mostly focused on the Japanese market but now the company wants to expand to the European market and she needs to improve her English:

She plans to take the TOEFL at some point but it isn’t the first priority

• role play business situations (first meeting / contract discussion / breaking the ice/ discussing how to solve problems / telephone calls /…)
• improve confidence
• improve vocabulary related to trade or furniture / computers / shipments / payment / customs
• fix grammar issues as they appear
• work on pronunciation to avoid misunderstandings Review how to pronounce numbers / dates / graphs
• work on presentations in English
• review emails and most common written documents (make it more professional)
• give specific homework to make her practice at home
• Listening: 3.5
  Speaking: 3
  Pronunciation: 2.5
  Writing: 3.5
  12.5

  1 year

  推荐课程（每周）/ Your Recommended Course (Weekly)
  
  F2F: 2

  Writing: 2

My name is Sophia. I am from the North East of China and I have been working in SH for 7 years.
I can speak Japanese so for 7 years I have been working in international trade with Japanese clients but now we start Europe market. / we want to expand to the European market

I do international trade about furniture and laptop. B2B.
I can only write emails and talk with my clients on wechat and I can’t speak face to face and sometimes I need to use google translate / I rely on google translate.

I think I can’t make the sentences quickly in my head  and I don’t know many official words / the business jargon I only could speak simple English.

For some shorts. It is simple I am ok for see the emails. But for new things or different I need to translate.

if some friends talk not about business I can understand 70% but for business I never tried because it is just the start. I prepare for the future.

We may talk about the cooperation for our future with my clients. The plan to start some products and how to solve the problems about the products which we sold (how to solve problems /
talk about the means of payment / payment facilities.

We all speak Japanese.
I learned my Japanese in School and I travel sometimes.

Pronunciation

east

impress / express

You send an email to John Smith and ask him for a quotation for 10,000 tables:

Dear John,

Good day / I hope this email finds you well
I am writing to you about a new order we want to make for 10,000 tables in the end of December.
Could you (please) send a quotation based on this plan within this week?

Thank you in advance,

Best regards,

Sophia

Basic first email structure : 

Vocabulary

to express (v) 表达
I need time to express my ideas

to impress (v)使钦佩
I want to impress my boss

impressive (adj)
The castle in Osaka is impressive

jargon (n) 行话
I don’t know the jargon in English

oath  (take an oath) (n) 宣誓
He took an oath to say the truth

to break the ice (v) 破冰
We always break the ice when we meet a client for the first time.

to return (v)  send back a product 退货
The customers sometimes return some of the products.

defect (n) problem with a product 瑕疵
I decided to return the table because it had a defect.

to investigate (v) 调查 /审查
We haven’t received the furniture, we need to investigate

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