Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Speaking exercise

When I finish this regulation it can help sales team to understand where our customer are located and how to contact them.

If we finish some contracts or orders we have more clarity on what we can get from the order. .

-> I want to standardize the sales process

we still rely on our colleague who went out before the lockdown
He can help us to solve all the problems between factories and the company.

The government still not give us some clear time which can let us to pick up our goods to deliver it to our customer. -> the government still hasn’t given us a clear time at which we are allowed to pick the goods and deliver them.

he finished some printing goods and he couldn’t deliver it to his customer and meanwhile the customers must get the goods so their customer had to contact other suppliers.
When SH stopped the lockdown I guess our neighbor goods will become useless

we need to pay a lot of money to the suppliers but on the other side we couldn’t send invoice to our customers so they haven’t paid for it.

they said you can send the invoice once you restart work

it must get some difference before lockdown.
There also need not short time to recover it. Include people’s confidence.

Maybe one day our business will face some bad times. We had to make some preparations for it to prevent some risk happen.  -> we had to make some preparations to manage the risk.

hedge against this risk

Even as we face a bad situation we can change our feelings or do something so that it does not become too bad.

If you had to face some bad situation maybe someone can help you to overcome some difficult times.

They used FREE as an acronym.

I talked to some old classmates. Both of them just showed me 2 points.

They worried about some problems like the economy.
They complained about some officers doing bad things.

All the leaders they should have solved food problems.

China has too many people who don’t have enough condition -> many people don’t have financial security

We don’t have enough regulation to control greedy people.
and the punishments are too light.

in those countries they punish them if they abuse their power.

Vocabulary

to abuse (v) 滥用
He abused his power to make money

corruption (n) 腐化堕落/贪污贿赂
He went to jail for corruption

acronym : 首字母缩略词
LASER is an acronym and means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) Index showing how much confidence people have for the future and their willingness to spend
Looking at the CCI we can predict consumption better

clarity (n)
I read the report but it lacks clarity, it is very confusing

clear (adj)
It is very clear I understand you

once (conjunction ) when / as soon as
Once I receive the invoice I will process it and send the payment

to hedge (v) to protect against a potential loss 保值措施
We have to hedge against the rise of gas price.