- •Living abroad pre-intermediate
- •About Business - Working Abroad
- •Vocabulary – Living Abroad
- •Speaking - Making small talk
- •Writing - Formal and Informal emails
- •Case Study –Global Recruit
- •2. Dealing with customers
- •2.1 About Business – The shopping experience
- •2.2 Vocabulary – Telephoning and customer care
- •2.4 Speaking – Telephoning – handling complaints
- •2.5 Writing – Dealing with an email of complaint
- •2.6 Case Study – The Panorama Conference
- •3. Operations
- •3.1 About Business –Lean manufacturing
- •3.2 Vocabulary –Trends and planning
- •3.4 Speaking – Presentations – signposts and stepping stones
- •3.5 Writing – Instructions and procedures for an exhibition stand
- •3.6 Case Study - ScotAir
- •4. Success stories
- •4.1 About Business – Business leaders and success stories
- •4.2 Vocabulary – Describing yourself and being successful
- •4.4 Speaking –Appraisals
- •4.5 Writing – Profiles of business leaders
- •4.6 Case Study – The English Academy
- •5. Selling
- •5.1 About Business - Advertising
- •5.2 Vocabulary - Buying and selling
- •5.4 Speaking – Negotiating
- •5.5 Writing – Negotiating by email
- •5.6 Case Study - Coolhunters
- •6. The organisation
- •6.1 About Business – Entrepreneurs
- •6.2 Vocabulary - Types of companies
- •6.4 Speaking – Interrupting in meetings
- •6.5 Writing – Agendas and action minutes
- •6.6 Case Study – Soup kitchen vs Gourmet to go
- •7. The stock markets
- •7.1 About Business
- •7.2 Vocabulary –Dealing with figures
- •7.4 Speaking – Negotiations – making offers, agreeing deadlines
- •7.5 Writing – Describing figures
- •7.6 Case Study – Trading stocks
- •8. Going global
- •8.1 About Business – Franchising
- •8.2 Vocabulary – Setting up a franchise
- •8.4 Speaking – Presentations – handling questions
- •8.5 Writing – Reports of recommendation
- •8.6 Case Study – Choosing a franchise
6. The organisation
6.1 About Business – Entrepreneurs
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someone who starts a new business or arranges business deals in order to make money, often in a way that involves financial risks |
предприниматель |
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a company, organization, or business |
предприятие |
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a new small company or business |
компания, недавно появившаяся на рынке |
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a product or service that does not exist, so there is an opportunity to develop that product or service and sell it |
рыночная ниша, дефицит на рынке |
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The lowest number of shares of the company |
минимальная акционерная доля |
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official rules that seem unnecessary and prevent things from being done quickly and easily |
бюрократия |
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Not a lot of money |
немного денег |
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accounts calculated over a period of one year |
ежегодные счета |
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the main building or offices used by a large company or organization |
главный офис |
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the legal position of being responsible for paying only a limited amount of debt if something bad happens to yourself or your company |
ограниченная ответственность |
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to pay some amount of money to lawyer, for legal services |
оплачивать услуги юристов |
6.2 Vocabulary - Types of companies
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one of the equal parts into which the ownership of a company is divided |
акции |
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someone who owns shares in a company or business |
акционер |
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to collect money |
собирать / привлекать деньги |
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An entrepreneur who owns and runs his/her own business individually |
индивидуальный предприниматель |
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a business owned by two or more people |
партнерство |
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a company whose shares are not bought and sold on the stock market and can only pass to another person with the agreement of other shareholders |
закрытая акционерная компания |
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a company owned by at least two people and whose shares can be bought by everyone |
открытая компания с ограниченной ответственностью |
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To start owing money to somebody |
влезть в долг |
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to provide people with something that they need or want |
поставлять |
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a company or person that provides a particular product |
поставщик |
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someone who works hard doing practical things to help to save environment |
защитник окружающей среды |
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To increase a range of product or services that company produces |
разнообразить |