Wednesday's Assignment

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Wednesday's Assignment

Listen to this video once, and then respond to the following tasks:

Task 1:

Take dictation from 3:45 - 4:07, listen to this part once more, and then check it with a partner.

I mean there's a commitment involved. Time spent serving your clients today, time spent billing, time spent doing the work you have to do. That’s today’s revenue. I’m not here to tell you that is not important. It is important. That’s how we get paid. We got to do a great job for the clients we already have. But building a network of professional contacts who can and will refer your business--that’s an investment for tomorrow.

Task 2:

Fill in the transcript below.

I mean there's a commitment involved. Time spent serving your clients today, time spent billing, time spent doing the the work you have to do. That's today's revenue. I'm not here to tell you that is not important. It is important. That's how we get paid. We got to do a great job for the clients we already have.

But building a network of professional contacts who can and will refer your business--that's your investment for tomorrow !

Task 3:

1.        What is the main idea that the speaker is talking about?

There are lots of competitions around your business and various choices for your clients. You need not only try your best to server your current clients completely, but also make a plan for investing for the future and start to do it now included building a network of professional contacts.

2.        Summarize this video in five or six sentences max; share your summary with one or two of your peers and compare yours to theirs.

Today, there are large numbers of choices prepared for every costume. For examples, you can buy one cup of coffee out of several tens types of coffees at Starbucks, choice one type of cookie from large number of  alternative types of coolies, and the choices of the web side about “law firm” available in the internet is huge. The reasons of making different choice depend on every client’s personal favourite, habits, and how familiar they have been. Oppositely, for the seller, how to get the more clients’ attentions in the future is equal and even more important. There are lots of competitions around your business. If you want to find more clients in the internet, you should try your best to build a network of professional contacts. It seems an investment for the future.

3.        Pick up at least ten new vocabulary from this video, and then create a short story with them. Write it down on your blog and ask one of your peers to edit it for youà you can use this story on your Thursday’s presentation J.

law firm, beverage, stand out of, grande, make choices, not going away.