Networking

Online networking websites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, are increasingly becoming the most popular means of instant and detailed communication. These sites allow registered users to communication with friends, family and clients from moment to moment. You can add images, update your status (telling everyone what you're doing this very moment), start a fan page for your business, write notes, send personal messages, and more. The idea is to allow users the opportunity to connect with everyone they know, even if they are hundreds of miles apart.

Technology is Convenient, But don't Ignore the Personal Touches

Though we are happy to observe a hitherto unseen breakthrough in communication technologies, people still need physical presence and sincere thoughts. Though the computer can make your message fast, it can't make it meaningful. An email may be quicker than a handwritten note, but when sending a thank you to an interviewer, the handwritten note will be better received. It may be convenient to write on a coworker's social media page to express condolences over the loss of a loved one, but a phone call or a personal visit and a hug will mean much more. Business is built on relationships, and sometimes the best way to strengthen those relationships cannot be found in cyberspace.

2. Prepare to give definitions or describe different means of communication. Let your group mates guess what means of communication you are speaking about.

3. Explain why it is important to keep personal touch with people.

DEVELOPING VOCABULARY

1. Complete the table with the derivatives of the given words.

Verb	Noun	Adjective
		interpretable
	effect
affect
communicate
		interrupted
		decodable
		distractive
	stereotype
	prevention
		eliminable
reduce
perceive

2. Match the terms with their definitions.

	distraction		the act or process of explaining, elucidating
	stereotype		something that is produced by a cause or agent; result
	channel		the process by which an organism gets and interprets information from the external world by means of the sensory receptors
	affect		all that is contained or dealt with in a conversation, piece of writing, etc.; substance
	effect		any strong feeling, as of joy, sorrow, or fear
	interruption		any form of mental functioning that involves emotion
	perception		an interruption; an obstacle to concentration
	emotion		ability to adapt to different conditions, a new environment, etc
	interpretation		an interval or intermission
	context		a set of inaccurate, simplistic generalizations about a group that allows others to categorize them and treat them accordingly
	content		the conditions and circumstances that are relevant to an event, fact, etc
	flexibility		a means of access; a course into which something can be directed or moved

3. Insert the given words into the description of the diagram below: sender, receiver, feedback, encoding, decoding, communication, message, channels.

… is a linked social process of sender, encoding, medium, decoding, receiver, and feedback. The sender's mission is to translate internal thought patterns into words, gestures or symbols that the intended … of the message will be likely to understand. This is the process of …. An encoded … is then ready to be transmitted over one or more … of communication, that is, pathways along which information travels, to reach the desired receiver.

Once a message is received, the recipient begins the process of …, that is, of converting the message back into the sender's purported idea. Once a message is decoded, the receiver can transmit a new message back to the original …. This is known as … - that is receiver's response to the message from the sender.

4. Insert the following words in the necessary form to complete the sentences: interpret, message, encounter, realize, conscious, effect, in effect, prejudice, feedback, elicit.

1. Be careful, your silence could be …… as an admission of guilt.

2. Helen became ……. that everyone was staring at her.

3. Her words had a profound …… on him.

4. It was the first serious …… with an obstacle in his work.

5. She …… that she had been cheated.

6. The …….. that we've got to date has been positive.

7. The two methods are …… identical.

8. This question ……. a great round of applause from the audience.

9. We received a …… that we were to undertake this work at once.

10. What has …….. you against modern music?

5. Match the words from the left column with the words from the right one to make up the collocations from the texts, use them in the sentences of your own:

A) “Components of Communication”

communicate	abilities
develop	ideas
elicit	control
exert	information
make	feelings
share	an impression

B) “Communication in an Organization”

deliver	functions
follow	plans
implement	performance
improve	guidelines
maintain	attitudes
mould	messages
perform	steps
take	a system

C) “Barriers to Business Communication”

automatic	communication
immediate	problems
muddled	experiences
one-way	manager
paper	messages
past	work
physical	question
pressing	distraction
severe	responses
time	pressures

D) “How to Prevent Breakdowns in Communication”

ambiguous	measures
body	program
constructive	words
face-to-face	language
general	feedback
hard-line	selection
induction	interaction
media	guidelines
preventive	positions

6. Insert the following prepositions where necessary: on  2, out  1, at  1, with  4, in  4, to  1, over  1, through  1, for  1, by  2.

1. The original understanding of the word communication is consistent … the definition of communication used … modern psychology.

2. Senders and receivers are persons who give … and take … messages.

3. Communication always takes place … some context, or setting.

4. At other times, however, the context makes such an impression … us that it exerts considerable control … our behavior.

5. Messages may be sent and received … both verbal and nonverbal channels. Thus … effect we are multichannel communicators.

6. Effective communicators are adept … switching channels.

7. Noise is anything that interferes … or distorts our ability to send or receive messages.

8. To be an effective communicator, you must be sensitive … both types of feedback.

9. Managers spend much time … face to face or telephonic communication … their superiors, subordinates, colleagues, customers or suppliers.

10. A manager must be able to discover various barriers to communication, analyze the reasons … their occurrence and take preventive steps to avoid them.

11. Communication is fruitful only if messages sent … the sender are interpreted … the same meaning … the receiver.

7. Guess the words defined on the left, the prompts are given on the right.

an opinion formed beforehand, especially an unfavorable one based on inadequate facts a means or agency for communicating or diffusing information, news, etc., to the public a communication, usually brief, from one person or group to another, an implicit meaning, a mission a mutual action or influence to offer or suggest (information, ideas, etc.) in reaction to an inquiry, experiment, etc. to analyze and understand the construction of words and phrases bewilderment, perplexity, lack of clarity, embarrassment inclined or able to socialize readily; talkative the possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways, vagueness or uncertainty of meaning

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8. Fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions where necessary.

1. to hear … smb (smb’s news); 2. to wave … smb; 3. to connect … smb; 4. to smile … smb; 5. to glare … smb; 6. to chat … smb; 7. to shout … smb;

8. to whisper … smb; 9. to write a letter … smb; 10. to wink … smb; 11. to shake hands … smb; 12. to make an appointment … smb; 13. to bump … smb; 14. to communicate … smb; 15. to talk … smb; 16. to negotiate … smb; 17. to have a meeting … smb; 18. to look forward … hearing … smb; 19. contact smb.

9. Fill each gap with one word. There is an example (0).