Online Class Notes (Tibo)

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Some KPIs are coming to end.
We will do the / will have the performance review for the whole year. / our annual performance review is coming up.
We need to prepare for that.

We will stay at home in the coming three weeks for the test preparation.
It will last for 3 weeks.  / for the next 3 weeks we will focus totally on the test preparation

Tomorrow is 11/11, I think the sales volume will outsell other e-commerce websites  / will be higher than all the e-commerce website.

Usually I don’t pick up the phone if the number is not familiar to me. / I don’t pick up if I don’t know the number

a few years ago one of my friends suddenly contacted me / she contacted me out of the blue then she asked me to come to Guangxi province and said there were many good opportunities, she thought maybe we could go to there for business.

but I did not go. After several years I learned from another friend she joined in a scammer group.
First they try to contact people they knew before / they try to contact some of their friends and wanted them to come and join them. This is one story that was close to me.

If I go to there and join them maybe it is chaotic. -> if I had gone there it might have been quite chaotic

Grammar

Tomorrow is 11/11 I think the whole e-commerce industry will outsell normal days. / On 11/11, it is anticipated that the e-commerce industry will experience a surge in sales, with many retailers likely to outsell their average performance on normal days.

Taobao will outsell JD tomorrow = Taobao will sell more than JD tomorrow

Vocabulary

out of the blue (expression) very suddenly / without any idea of it before
Tom told me out of the blue that he was planning to quit

activist (n) someone who takes actions for a belief
environment activists protested to say we should use less electricity

account (n) a specific number which gives access
I have 5 bank accounts
I have 2 accounts on wechat, one personal and one for work.

personal (adj) for personal life
I only give my personal wechat account to close friends

professional (adj) for work
I only have meetings on my professional wechat account

lay off (v) fire in a more professional way
The company will lay off 10,000 people because sales were terrible this year

to blame (v) say it is someone’s /something fault
The company blamed Covid for bad sale numbers.
I blamed Tom for not telling me about the test.
I was blamed for not involving my teammate earlier in this project
I blamed my son for his bad results

scammer (n) someone who tries to cheat people and take their money
Many scammers try to steal your money on the internet

scam (n) idea/plan to cheat people
Tom lost some money in a scam

chaos (n) when things are very messy / not organized at all
11/11 was total chaos we had parcels everywhere, even in the corridors

chaotic (adj)
My week end was very chaotic, many things happened.

Pronunciation

chaos (K oss)