- •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:
Vocabulary in Context. Find a synonym for the underlined words in each of these sentences.
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What do museums do if an old master is stolen?
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No one wanted to repeat the fiasco of the last search for a director: the process took two years and the chosen director left after only two weeks.
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The executive search firm was contacted even before the director’s job was officially vacated.
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Executive search firms ferret out job candidates for all kinds of companies from universities and Fortune 500 companies to think tanks and social-service agencies.
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Occasionally, headhunters play a pivotal, if invisible, role in shaping organizations for which they recruit executives.
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The museum world used to be quite clubby; museum directors often had a lot of influence on the choice of their successors.
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Nowadays, having an heir apparent on hand within a museum is rare and competition for directors can be fierce.
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Some headhunters use cold calls to find viable candidates for job openings.
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Persuading an executive to leave a job he has just taken for another new one, even if it
is a plum assignment, takes great skill; if the headhunter succeeds, it is quite a coup.
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McCain’s campaign was already in trouble, but the coup de grace was the overspending by his staff, which bankrupted it.
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If you are looking for a top executive, there is no sense in settling for an average person; you should shoot for the moon and recruit the best person you can think of.
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A good headhunter can pluck someone from obscurity and put him in the perfect job.
What do these expressions mean?
A. to clinch a deal
B. here are two words that can mean “a candidate for a job:”
“a shoe-in” and “a contender”
Which one means “a serious candidate?” Which one means “someone who is sure to get the position?”
C. expressions from sailing
“At the helm of
to navigate the shoals of /(faculty politics)”
What words need to be added to these expressions to make them grammatically correct?
1. He resigned ____ director of the museum. (He was the director, but he isn’t anymore).
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He’s still working on his doctorate. You mean he’s still _____ it? (continuing)
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The Board asked him to step ________ _____ the CEO. (leave the job)
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I’d like to ______ a meeting for tomorrow, (invite people to a meeting)
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We need ________ a search for a new president, (do)
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The negotiations were endless. The buyer seemed to want to drag the process ______ forever. (prolong it)
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