англ яз для делового общения

Московский институт экономики, менеджмента и права

Кафедра лингвистики

Е.И. Полякова

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК ДЛЯ ДЕЛОВОГО ОБЩЕНИЯ

Учебное пособие

Москва 2009

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Автор – к. пед. наук Е.И. Полякова

АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК ДЛЯ ДЕЛОВОГО ОБЩЕНИЯ / Сост. Е.И. Полякова Учебное пособие – М.: МИЭМП, 2009. – 76 с.

Учебное пособие предназначено для обучения деловому английскому языку студентов факультетов экономического, юридического и факультета управления.

Каждый урок включает лексический материал, текст для изучающего чтения, лексические, грамматические и коммуникативные упражнения и задания, обеспечивающие вместе активную деятельность в области речевой практики. Во второй части учебного пособия представлены тексты страноведческого характера, которые предназначены для самостоятельной работы студентов. Весь текстовый материал пособия аутентичный, тексты подобраны главным образом из учебников на английском языке, а также из других оригинальных источников. Материалы данного пособия можно использовать в комплексе с другими учебниками и учебными пособиями.

Пособие может быть использовано на занятиях по практике английского языка, переводу, деловому английскому языку в системе высшего образования, а также в системе повышения квалификации и переподготовки преподавателей, специалистов и практических работников различных сфер делового сотрудничества.

©Полякова Е.И., 2009

©Московский институт экономики, менеджмента и права, 2009

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UNIT 1

A DAY IN YOUR LIFE

1. Read the text below and complete it with the words:

reads, get up, makes, enjoys, takes, leaves, begins, listens, turns, likes, runs

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN THE LIFE OF JODIE LAWSON

Jodie Lawson, Young Businessperson of the Year, is managing director of roundpeg.com, an internet-based recruitment agency. Her day … at 7.15 when the alarm goes off. But she doesn’t often … straight away. She lies in bed and … to the news on the radio until 7.30.

She usually goes to work by bus, but sometimes … . She likes running and finds it relaxing. It … her about 30 to 35 minutes to get to work – about the same as the bus.

When she gets to the office, she … on the computer, … her e-mail, and has breakfast – a bowl of cereal. Her morning always involves meetings, taking calls from clients and dealing with e-mails. Most days she has lunch at her desk, but sometimes she goes out with a client, or … a lunchtime presentation. In the afternoon she is usually out of the office visiting clients.

She … work around seven, but quite often goes to an evening meeting. To relax she … seeing her friends and family, and … going away at the weekend and getting out of the city.

She goes to bed between 11 and midnight.

2.Answer the questions about Jodie’s working day.

1.What time does Jodie get up?

2.Does she often listen to the news?

3.What does she have for breakfast?

4.How does she usually get to her work?

5.How long does it take her to get to work?

6.What’s the first thing she does when she gets to the office?

7.What does she do in the afternoon?

8.What does she do in the evening?

9.What time does she go home?

10.How does she relax?

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3.Which of these sentences are correct?

1.She sometimes runs to work.

2.She goes to work by local train.

3.She has lunch in a café.

4.She is usually out of the office in the afternoon.

5.To relax she likes going to the theatre.

6.Her mornings always involve meetings.

7.She usually goes to bed after midnight.

8.She visits her clients in the afternoon.

4. Put these words in order to make sentences.

6. Read about Alan’s day and write similar stories about Peter and Hugh’s day and

Paul’s day.

1.Alan is a lorry driver.

2.He is twenty-five years old.

3.He works five days a week.

4.He gets up at six o’clock every day.

5.He eats an enormous breakfast.

6.He drinks two cups of tea.

7.Then he kisses his wife.

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8.He leaves for work at half past six.

9.He has lunch in a transport café.

10.He comes home at five o’clock.

11.In the evening he goes to the pub.

12.He goes to bed at ten o’clock.

7. Complete the questions for the answers given.

1. What time __________ ?

I usually get up at seven o’clock.

2.Where __________ ? I work in a bank.

3.When __________ ? I start work at 9 a.m.

4.Where __________ ?

I usually have lunch in a café.

5.Who __________ ?

I usually visit clients in the afternoon.

6.What time __________ ? I come home after 7 pm.

7.What __________ ?

I watch TV or read something in the evening.

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8.When __________ ?

I have a holiday in summer.

9.Where __________ ?

I like going to the seaside for my holiday.

8. Complete the sentences with am, is, are, do or does.

1.He ____ the manager of the sales department.

2.____ you work on Saturdays?

3.Why ____ you always late?

4.Where ____ the company’s head office?

5.What time ____ they finish work?

6.____ she like her job?

7.Where ____ you come from?

8.I _____ interested in politics.

9.How often ____ you work at the weekend?

10.How much time ____ he spend writing reports?

11.She ____ not have lunch in a café.

12._____ they live far from here?

10. They … good friends many years ago. was were will be are

11.I … at the library tomorrow. will be was am is

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12. We went by taxi because we … late.

10. Complete the questions with the correct words.

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UNIT 2

WORKING CONDITIONS

1. Read the article and say if the following sentences are true or false.

A.In IBM, most of the staff share desks.

B.The article says that sharing desks reduces costs.

C.The study says that some people are less productive when they have their own desks.

HOT DESKING

Do you start work and leave the office at the same time every day or do you work flexible hours? Do you have your own desk?

In many companies these days, employees share office space and work flexible hours. In IBM, for example, 60 per cent of its staff ‘hot desks’, or share their desks. Employees clear their desks before leaving work so they become free for other colleagues to use. In other companies, employees reserve their work space in advance for the next day. The companies say these systems are more flexible, save space and cut costs.

However, many workers find desk-sharing more stressful than traditional office organization. They prefer to have their own personal space and feel uncomfortable about sharing. A recent study claims that daily routine and office rituals help to create a happy working atmosphere. For example, some people like to drink from a favourite cup and put their name on personal office equipment. The study, by the recruitment firm Office Angels, says that some office workers are more productive with regular working hours and a personalised work space.

2. Complete the sentences with the following words:

own, travel, cup, out, computer, finish, mobile, personalise, use, colleagues

1.My husband has his … desk at work.

2.I like to … my work space.

3.I start and … work at the same time.

4.I need a … for my work because I use the Internet.

5.He sometimes works … of the office.

6.Kate has her own coffee … at work.

7.I see my … socially outside work.

8.I … abroad in my work.

9.I … different languages in my job.

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10. Jack makes most of his calls on a … phone.

3.Answer the questions.

1.Do you have your own desk at work?

2.When do you start your work?

3.When do you finish your work?

4.How often do you make presentations?

6.Do you have tea-breaks at work?

7.Where do you usually have lunch?

8.Do you use a computer at work?

9.What purposes do you use Internet for?

10.Are your colleagues friendly?

11.Do you travel round the country or abroad in your work?

4.Find definitions for the following words:

a meeting, a presentation, a client, flexible hours

a.someone who pays for the services of a professional person

b.an occasion when people gather to discuss things and make decisions

c.the process of showing something to someone

d.a system in which workers choose the hours each day that they work

5. Read the text about Jeffrey Roberts and complete the questions for the answers

given.

Jeffrey Roberts is a hospital manager. He works in a large hospital in Manchester in the north of England.

He gets up at half past seven every day and has eggs and toast for breakfast. Then he walks to the hospital because it is very close to his home. He starts work at eight o’clock. At eleven he stops work for a ten-minute coffee break.

He always has lunch at the hospital. In the afternoon he has meetings with doctors. He finishes work at six o’clock.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays he plays tennis in the evening. He usually goes away for the weekend with his partner.

1.Where does he work?

In a hospital.

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