- •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:
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Main Ideas and Details
Para. 1 What is the significance of each of these numbers?
155
800,000
11,000
80
122
1/2
Para. 2 Why is the gold here in New York?
Para. 3 Why does it take three people to move gold from one place in the vault to another?
Para. 4 Why do the workers wear magnesium boots?
Para. 5 What is in each cell?
Para. 6 How does one get into the main gold vault?
Para. 7 How does security work in the Bank?
Para. 8 Besides gold storage, what other function does the Federal Reserve Bank have?
B. Interpretation
“Fifteen years ago, we visited the main gold vault...and were told that in twenty years the gold might be gone.”
Why do you suppose some people thought the supply might be gone in about 1993? Might it go in the future? Explain.
LANGUAGE STUDY
Vocabulary
Read the four words and expressions. Cross out the one that doesn’t belong. Compare your answers with those of a partner. Explain any differences and check with the class.
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Vault |
Safe |
Tomb |
Strongbox |
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Hoard |
Reserve |
Accumulation |
Distribution |
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Survey |
Criticize |
Review |
Look over |
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get a handle on |
Understand |
Grasp |
Teach |
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Deficit |
Supply |
Shortage |
Deficiency |
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Safeguard |
Defend |
Protect |
Rescue |
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Trailed |
Helped |
Followed |
Tracked |
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Assets |
Problems |
Means |
Financial resources |
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Topple over |
Overturn |
Confuse |
Upset |
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Ushered into |
Hired |
Escorted |
Shown |
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Barricade |
Impediment |
Obstacle |
Weapon |
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Freshen up |
Make new |
Refresh |
Recycle |
Sports idioms in business
The following expressions have found their way from the locker room to the boardroom.
What does each mean?
A ballpark figure
I don't know the exact costs of the project, but I can give you a ballpark figure.
To be out in left field, to come from left field
I have no idea what she was thinking about when she made that proposal. It came completely out of left field.
To touch base with someone
So, you get started on the project and I’ll touch base with you next week to see how things are going.
To go to bat for someone
We knew the CEO was wrong about our boss, so we went to bat for him.
To throw in the towel
This project is going nowhere; I’m about ready to throw in the towel.
To play ball
I tried negotiating with the lawyers for the client but they were just not ready to play ball.
To pinch hit
Joe couldn't make the presentation so he asked Jane to pinch hit for him.
The ball is in your court.
Ok: I've made all the compromises I am authorized to make. Now the ball is in your court.