- •English for Professional Purposes: Business
- •Санкт-Петербург
- •Contents
- •Getting to know your colleagues
- •In what situations would you use the words and expressions below?
- •Farm project
- •Rain forest project
- •Peace project
- •Ben & Jerry’s Projects
- •Interpreting information
- •Reviewing background information and vocabulary
- •Introductory notes
- •Language hints for negotiation: conceding a point
- •Situation
- •2. Notice the format of the meeting.
- •3. Review your notes on Ben & Jerry’s Projects, the vocabulary, the information on business culture, and the negotiating strategy. Prepare to use this information in the meeting.
- •Verb Salad ben & jerry’s homemade, inc.
- •Part II
- •By Roger Ebert
- •Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron)
- •Vocabulary
- •Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- •Part III
- •Introducing the topic. Discuss these questions with another student, then with the class.
- •Main Ideas and Details
- •Vocabulary
- •Sports idioms in business
- •It's a whole new ballgame.
- •Vocabulary exercise
- •Drop, fall, fall sharply, inch down, surge in, decline, level off, plummet, plunge, rise, gain, stagnate, go nowhere, soar
- •Famous quotes from the world of business sentence stress practice
- •Discuss the meaning of the sentences
- •Now mark these yourself and say them aloud.
- •Part IV
- •Vocabulary from the Reading
- •The Star in Starbucks
- •Fielding Questions Some handy phrases for dealing with questions
- •Helpful advice Effective Visual Aids
- •Persuasive speaking for business assignment #1 topics for presentation
- •Article sources:
- •Persuasive Speaking for Business Assignment #2
- •Persuasive Speaking for Business Assignment # 3 (practicing presentation skills in a persuasive presentation, team working)
- •Ideas for Products and Services
- •IPhone competitor
- •Part V executive compensation at general electric
- •Part VI
- •Vocabulary in Context. Find a synonym for the underlined words in each of these sentences.
- •Part VII
- •Vocabulary in Context
- •Talking about brands the purest treasure
- •Reviewing background information and vocabulary
- •Glossary
- •Oxford placement test grammar test part 1
- •Grammar test Part 2
- •Now tick the correct question tag in the following 10 items:
Drop, fall, fall sharply, inch down, surge in, decline, level off, plummet, plunge, rise, gain, stagnate, go nowhere, soar
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Shares in J.P.Morgan Chase __________ on Friday on news that the bank had settled accusations of misrepresentation in the Enron scandal.
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Stock prices of Xerox _______ thanks to quarterly earnings that exceeded market predictions.
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Speculations on approval of Oxigen’s new thryoid cancer drug led to a ________ in its stock price, followed by a sharp _____________ and _______________at week’s end.
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Plans for Atlantic Coast Airlines to end its links to United Airlines resulted in its stock price ___________ on Friday and Monday, followed by a small ___________later in the week.
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Prices for stock in Merrill Lynch ____________this week with the retirement of the brokerage firm's executive vice-chairman, Thomas H. Patrick, Sr...
6. Shares in Verizon Communications _____________ slightly based on news of the pending strike.
7. I.B.M. stock ____________nowhere this week on news that it was guilty of age discrimination because of changes to its pension plan in the 1990’s.
8. Walt Disney saw its shares _________________only moderately because of a
_______________ in earnings in its theme park division.
9. Shares in Igen International _____________ because of its friendly takeover by Roche, which is seen as beneficial to both entities.
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On Friday, August 1st , the Down Jones industrial average _______________ at
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10 a.m., when news of unemployment figures were made public in Washington.
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Since January of 2002, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has, ________________
upward.
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Bond prices have _____________on rumors of interest rate increases.
GRAMMAR POINTS
Speculating with Past Unreal and Mixed Conditions
Notice the examples:
Past unreal: If the Dutch hadn't feared an invasion from the British, they wouldn’t have built a wall around part of New York harbor.
Mixed: If the early wall hadn't been constructed, we probably wouldn't have
Wall St. today.
Restate these sentences using past unreal conditions.
1. Because the Dutch founded the first European colony here, it was called New Amsterdam.
2. Because the wall failed, the British were able to invade New Amsterdam and overrun it.
3. Because the Dutch settlers were more interested in their fortunes than in maintaining the colony, they surrendered to the British invaders.
4. Because the Dutch invented modern capitalism, they were able to make New Amsterdam into a thriving marketplace.
GRAMMAR POINTS + DISCUSSION
Famous quotes from the world of business sentence stress practice
1. Look at these sentences and decide which words should be stressed and where you should pause to make the sentences clearest.
In general, the last content word in a thought group is stressed, unless there is a contrast to emphasize or new information. The first ones have been marked for you. Say the sentences out loud, and then decide whether or not you agree with each.