VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

on the spot: right away, without preparation, right there at that time

premonition: (尤指不祥的)预感;

abnormal: not-normal (adj)

indefinitely: 无限期地 no scheduled date (not like forever)
ie. I’ll be wfh indefinitely.

xxxx(noun)-like
ie. Spiderman-like,

observations: 观察; 观测; 监视; (尤指据所见、所闻、所读而作的)评论

incentivize: (v) use money etc. to motivate people (n) incentives

has reservations about something – unsure about something

aspiration: 渴望; 抱负; 志向

facilitate: 促进; 促使; 使便利

Grammar

adj:
the girl who is calling me is Ally
the girl I was calling is Ally

Speaking exercise

repeat client
old client
a client that we’ve worked with before/in the past

they should give us the feedback in 3 days as scheduled, but they didn’t

they just say something else but didn’t answer my question directly

in addition to hire us to do the design, they also did in-house design.

they would really appreciate it for our effort …

even he had a lot of Chinese gfs

we have signed our projects with teamwork

it’s not the only the effort from the salesperson

they might have a potential project which costed 2 million rmb

as I expected

she’s not able to participate in the more professional conversations about the projects

Good morning everybody, this is Nicole. I will say sth to the client first, thank you for the call you did last night. I have already shared the info about the project to my colleague. It’s a bit regret, but at the same time we are happy work with your team. We are also happy that we could inspire you during the period of our cooperation, as you said. Let’s just catch-up, it’s nothing serious. Let me pass the ….

Good morning everybody, this is Nicole. Let me start off by saying thank you to our client XXX, thank you so much for your call last night. I have already shared the news about the project to my colleagues. We do regret that we cannot work on this project with you guys anymore, but at the same time we are also happy that we could inspire you during the period of our cooperation, as you said last night. So for this catch-up call, let us just share our thoughts and ideas. Just casually between friends, nothing too serious. Mrxxx, would you like to start by saying something to the team? I’ve already let them know about the general status of the project, is there anything you want to add? and then I could pass the call to my colleagues.

Thank you everyone for joining this meeting. It was very nice to talk to each other like this, we hope this project would be launched smoothly and have good results. We will look forward to cooperating with you again soon.
Thank you everyone for joining this meeting. It was very nice to talk to each other like this. Regarding the early termination, I will think about how we should proceed properly with the project closing. I will get back to you about this later. On behalf of my team here at XXX, we wish you the best of luck on your project. We hope it will be a great success and we look forward to cooperating with you again soon.

Writing exercise

Post-holiday syndrome is usually a variety of physical or psychological manifestations that people experience after a long holiday. For example, people feel bored and unmotivated in the days after the holidays, they are very unproductive, even anorexic, anxious, etc.

I think the biggest reason for these situations is that there is no plan for doing things during holiday, we usually eat whatever we want, sleep whenever we want, and the personal routine is very irregularly.

It has been proven that adjusting personal routine as soon as possible to the same as before the holiday is an effective way to quickly get rid of post-holiday syndrome. It is best to start adjusting three days before the end of the long holiday. At the same time, we also need to pay attention to maintain a light diet to reduce the burden on the stomach, because we usually eat a lot of greasy food during the long holiday.

However, the ideal way to keep people from suffering from post-holiday syndrome is to maintain a good, regular routine and diet even during the long holidays.