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You have strong English communication skills. In fact, most of your sentences
and points are very clear and there are few mistakes when you speak.
Here are a few brief notes from our online lessons last week. You might like to
take a look and practice reading the corrected sentences aloud, check the list
of vocabulary, and listen to the native speakers pronouncing the words that are
a little challenging for you to pronounce.
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/I've climbed Mount Fuji twice.
/We climbed overnight and stayed at the 8th station mountain hut.
/crater
/The weather is very changeable.
/x = times
/difference of opinion
/We try to base our brand name on market research results.
/The biggest convenience store chain is GS25 - 15,000 convenience stores.
/unavoidable (raising the prices)
/The typical lifetime of confectionary product is 10 years, but in many cases it is much shorter.
/There are many factors that affect the length of the product life cycle.
/Brand awareness is not enough. Brand equity is more important.
/brand equity - shared happiness
/shared happiness & health
/regional concept / localization
/mismatch
/One strategy is to continue with the two strategies - product extension and product termination.
/fazing out
/long seller
/We walked more than 7,000 steps and we did exercises around the Han River.
/The river freezes.
/floor heating
/central heating
/taste test
/put on weight
/As we get older, we naturally put on weight.
/My friend suggested that I write a book about Japan - the culture and lifestyle.
/upload
/When I retire, ....
/guest speaker
/I give a presentation about marketing to university students once a year.
/effect?
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Teacher Feedback Sheet
Dates: October 3-8, 2022
1. Error Correction
Error example | Corrected example |
Almost (?) Koreans know Pepero Day. | Almost all Koreans know Pepero Day. The majority of Koreans are aware of Pepero Day. |
Glico is more taste than Lotte’s Pepero. | GlicoHaitai’s Pocky is tastier than Lotte’s Pepero. GlicoHaitai’s Pocky sticks are more delicious than Lotte’s Pepero sticks. |
I’ll | I’ll making two stacks of boxes: one stack of boxes to be sent to Indonesia and the other stack of boxes to be stored in Korea. |
We got insurance money. = OK! | We got paid compensation from our insurance company. Insurance covered the cost of repairs. |
We thought (?) the time to import from Indonesia. | We thought that now is a good time to import Indonesian made Almond Pocky to Korea. We think that it is a suitable time to consider importing Almond Pocky made in Indonesia to Korea. |
The rainy yesterday stopped. | It stopped raining yesterday. The rain stopped (falling) yesterday. |
I prepared the moving from here to Indonesia. | I have been preparing to move to Indonesia. I’m busy preparing to move from Korea to Indonesia. I’ve been busy packing in preparation for my relocation (from Korea) to Indonesia. |
… how we | … how we maintain the machines … … how we do maintenance on the machines…. |
Depreciation already finished. | The period of (paying for the cost of) depreciation has finished/ended. We don’t have to pay for the cost of depreciation any more. |
Why we were able to successfully sell the Orion Brownie in the Japanese can be attributed to two reasons: First, …….. and second, ……….. The reason why we were successful in selling the Orion Brownie to consumers in Japan is because …… The main reason for our success is related to our product and promotion strategy. | |
We (?) TV commercial at that time. | We advertised through TV commercials at the time. We promoted our products on TV. We were able to attract many customers through publicizing our new products through TV commercials. |
There are two kinds of moving packages – company and personal. | I’ve divided my things into two piles/stacks. I have some boxes full of things that I plan to take to Indonesia, and I have some boxes full of things that I plan to keep here in Korea until I return. |
I explained my | I told him why I think we should faze out the Tasty Pocky brand and rebrand the product. I explained my reasoning for changing the strategy. I shared my opinion/view about the Tasty Pocky sales results and what we should do next. |
Today I was booking the airline … to go to Indonesia. | Today, I booked my airline ticket to go to Indonesia. Today, I reserved an airline ticket for Indonesia. |
In the meeting, 15 minutes I speak then Q&A session for 45 minutes. | In the meeting at the head office, I have a 15-minute speaking slot and then there is a 45-minute question and answer session with the executives. I need to report on GlicoHaitai’s financial results for 15 minutes, then there is a 45-minute Q&A session with the board of directors (top management team) at the Glico headquarters in two weeks. |
We can use | We rely of word of mouth – SNS is a very effective and powerful tool among young people. |
Almost (?) of our customers … | Almost all of our customers … |
If we | If this product is successful, then we’ll have to invest in a new production line. If we achieve our sales targets and the product successfully penetrates the market, we’ll definitely have to consider investing in a new production facility/production line. |
(?) Many traffic jam that time …. Big holiday in Korea. | We have a long vacation during Chinese New Year’s in February every year. There are many traffic jams at that time. Whenever there is a long vacation in Korea, the roads are so crowded with cars. There are long traffic jams everywhere. |
Big holiday people don’t buy cheap goods like chocolate…so no sales growth Pocky. | Whenever there is a long vacation in Korea, most people don’t spend money on cheap items like confectionary and chocolate so our sales growth is minimal during these times of the year. |
Convenience stores like 7/11 very much research and analyze the product sales and even the trends of the weather. | Convenience stores like 7/11 conduct extensive research and analyze the sales trends and stock movements of all items in their stores on a daily basis. In fact, they can even predict the sales of each item depending on the day, time, weather, and season. |
2. Pronunciation
*competition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FQqzUFa6Y
*competitive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eUXM3nGTY
*tariffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8SEY3_m_eA
*months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSJ4C0m922E
*distributor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDIpCbRRlnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZHh-NqGv9g&list=RDCMUCM-DM3FXN520SaDa9RTK_Mw&index=1
*Zoom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFcLwBC5UtY
*niche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0WQxz-c9Ls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pldkwIL7da8
*cold vs. called https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LfoHKD_m7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwcWr4RDAns
*cocoa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alUhGppPX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oio8JUrOudw
*research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODlT6YdXTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN1_RO_aOTs
*vinyl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoeIGMZ1b_U
3. New Vocabulary
Word/ Phrase | Definition & example sentence |
pick one’s brains | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/pick+one%27s+brain |
understudy | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/understudy |
successor | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/successor |
predecessor | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/predecessor |
transition (period) | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/transition+ |
long seller | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/long+seller |
stack | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/stack |
pile | https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/pile |
word of mouth | https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%22by+word+of+mouth%22 |
relocate relocation | https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=relocate https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=relocation |
minimal | https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=minimal |
conduct | https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=conduct |
carry out | https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=carry+out |
rely | https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=rely |
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