PART A_1
We will read aloud the words and the meaning below. Please repeat after me. Then, please express your opinion about the statement in the discussion part.
単語とその意味を音読します。講師に続いて読みましょう。その後、discussionパートの内容について意見を述べましょう。
PART A_2
| Word: | loss |
| Meaning: | an amount of money lost by a business or organization |
| Discussion: | Every company must be ready to face great financial losses because they are going to come, eventually. |
PART A_3
| Word: | mistake |
| Meaning: | something that you do or think that is wrong |
| Discussion: | The biggest mistake a business could ever make is to ignore the feedback from its customers. |
PART A_4
| Word: | objective |
| Meaning: | something that you are trying to achieve |
| Discussion: | If the main and only objective of a company is to earn profits, it will not succeed. |
PART A_5
| Word: | offer |
| Meaning: | to give or provide something |
| Discussion: | Any customer-oriented business should offer solutions to clients’ problems quickly. If a business can’t do this, it will not succeed. |
PART A_6
| Word: | opinion |
| Meaning: | a thought or belief about something or someone |
| Discussion: | The problem with big businesses is, they don’t take time to get the opinion of their employees. They only rely on the opinion of the managers, supervisors and executives. |
PART A_7
| Word: | option |
| Meaning: | choice |
| Discussion: | At work, sometimes failure is not an option; it’s a normal phase that everybody experiences. How you cope with failure is what matters. |
PART A_8
| Word: | output |
| Meaning: | the amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry |
| Discussion: | The longer a person spends time working, the lesser his output. |
PART A_9
| Word: | product |
| Meaning: | something that is made or grown to be sold |
| Discussion: | The cheapest product always wins |
PART A_10
| Word: | profit |
| Meaning: | earnings; income; gain |
| Discussion: |
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable. |
PART A_11
| Word: | promotion |
| Meaning: | the action of raising someone to a higher position or rank |
| Discussion: | As an employee gets more promotion at work, he becomes less happy and more stressed. |
PART A_12
Now, let’s review your answers.
では、あなたの答えを復習してみましょう。その後、修正したあなたの答えを読んでみましょう。
(Please review your student’s answers by sending the correct answers in complete sentences. After that, ask your student to read aloud his or her corrected answers.)
PART A_13