Lexica- grammatical exercises

III.Answer the questions:

1. What kind of activities does the network group start?

2. What do the meetings focus on?

3. What problems do the participants of the meetings discuss?

Discuss the questions in groups of two or three.

4. What kind of networking activities do you know?

5. What helps you establish networking relations with your partners or partner organizations?

6. Do you personally represent any network groups?

IV.Your organization is participating in a project within a counter- trafficking framework. You will need to collect as much information as possible about your partner organizations in different countries and their contact details. You will also need to arrange a network group meeting.

TASK 1

Make a telephone call to your colleague to talk about a network group meeting for the upcoming project.

A: You want to do the following during the phone call:

1) Note down when and where the network group meeting will take place.

2) Suggest that these people attend the meeting:

Irina Pavlovskaya, telephone number (095) 249 08 16;

Bozena Lenat, telephone number (361) 108 08 57.

They are country representatives for Russia and Slovenia. Their participation is crucial for establishing the future network.

B: You want to do the following during the phone call:

1) Tell your colleague when and where the network group is meeting.

Details are as follows:

Location: Commercial Institute

19 Langdon Street

London

Date/time: Friday, 29th August, at 13.00

2) Note down the names and phone numbers of two people you need to invite to the meeting.

TASK 2

Write an enquiry to the Interpol asking for contact details of one of your prospective partners.

V.Which of the following are good ways of dealing with conflict in a negotiation? Discuss with a partner.

1 avoid eye contact	6 say ‘I see what you mean’
2 smile a lot	7 find out why the other side is unhappy
3 sit back and appear relaxed	8 focus on the issues, not on personalities
4 stop the discussion and come back to it later	9 say something humorous
5 say nothing for a long time	10 speak calmly and slowly

VI. Look at the extracts from the meeting and decide whether each underlined expression is interrupting or clarifying.

1. I think July would be the best time. It’s very quiet then, isn’t it?

You mean, we don’t do too much business then? – Clarifying

2. Could I just say something? – Interrupting

3. In my opinion, we should do it department by department.

How do you mean exactly? –…………

4. We’ve contacted two companies, National Transport and Fox Removals.

Sorry, could I just comment on that, Mark? –………….

5. You know, there’s another possibility. We could get our own people to do the moving.

What? You think our transport department could do the job? – ……….