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Presenters: NGUYEN NGOC AI THO VUONG UT BACH LAN

Language focus I. Listen to three extracts from interviews for a business magazine. Complete the information about the three people. Extract 1: Click here to listenhere Name: José Manuel Faria Job: …………………………………….Food Division Company: Unilever Place of work: ………………………….

Extract 2: Click here to listenhere Name: Genèvieve Cresset Job: Team Coordinator Company: Téléimages Place of work: ………………………………… Extract 3:Click here to listenhere Name: Kensuke Matsumura Job: ………………………… Company: Electrolux Place of work: …………………………………

II. Listen to the interview extracts again. José Manuel, Genèvieve, and Kensuke all need English for different activities at work. Which activities? Extract1Extract2Extract3 III. Work in group. Answer the questions 1.Do you need English for any of the activities you listed in II? 2.Make a list of needs for your group.

Focus on Functions I.Work in pairs. Answer the questions 1.When do people in your country shake hands? 2.What do you say in English when you don’t hear a person’s name? 3.When do you say Good morning/ Good afternoon/ Good evening/ Good night? INTRODUCTIONS, GREETING AND GOODBYES

II. Look at the introductions and greetings from three conversations. Underline the phrases people use when they meet someone for the first time 1. Excuse me, are you..? Hello, how are things? May I introduce myself ? I’m... How do you do?

2. Nice to see you again How are you? How’s life? How’s the family? 3. Let me introduce you to… I’d like to introduce you to… Please to meet you… Good to see you again… III. Walk around and introduce yourself to other people in the group. Greet some one you know. Practice introducing people and saying goodbye.

Skill Focus ENGLISH IN THE WORLD A.Do the quiz in pairs. What do you know about English? 1.More than…….people speak it as second or foreign language. 2.Over…….of the information on the Internet is in English 3.……of the people who use the Internet communicate in English. 4.About…....the population of the European Union speak English. 5.……of the people in the European Union who don’t speak English as a first language think it’s the most important language to learn. 6.The estimated number of people in the world who are learning English at present is over………..

Listen to an interview with a language expert about English and check your answer. II. There’re about English words in Japanese today. Can you say which English words these Japanese words come from? Food and drink – hambaagaa, chikia, biirie, jyusu Communication – ratio, terebi, iimeeru Think about different topics

III. Discuss your opinions 1.Why do you think there are a lot of English words in other languages? 2. The governments of some countries are against the use of English words. What do you think? Are you for or against the use of English in your language?

IV. Complete the article about Genèvieve Cresset. Use the Present Simple or Present Continuous form of the verbs in brackets. Genèvieve Creset…(1)..(start) work at 9 a.m and …(2)…(finish) around 6 or 7 p.m. The company she …(3)…(work) for - Téléimages…(4)..(produce)TV programmes and…(5)…(sell) them to TV channels in France and other countries. About a hundred people…(6)...(work) full-time in the company’s Champs - Elysée office Genèvieve …(7)...(no have) much time outside work but at present she…(8)…(work) on an important project – she ….(9)....(write) a book.

The book is about the wartime memorized of two World War II soldiers. “They were heroes”, she says, “so right now I …(10)...(record) their stories for the future. I think it …(11)...(be) important we ….(12)...(not forget) the enormous courage of people like them.” 1. starts4. produces7.10. am recording 2. finishes5. sells8. is working11. is 3. works6.9. is writing12. don’t forget

Practice I.Students work in pairs. Each student is given a reading text and a list of unscrambled questions. Each pair will ask and answer each other’s questions according to the information provided in the two reading texts.

Student A: Read the text about Kensuke Matsumura and answer student B’s questions a. Reading text Kensuke Matsumura works in Tokyo but he doesn’t live there, he goes to work by underground and his journey takes one and a half hours. He works nine hours a day or more and usually takes work at weekends. He spends about five hours a day on phone calls and s. He doesn’t get much time to relax but he enjoys watching TV, and once a month he does kendo. Like a lot of managers in Japan he has two weeks’ holiday a year, and usually takes one week in the summer and the other in the winter.

b. Prepare questions about José Manuel Faria to ask student B. Use the words below and the Present Simple 1. How many children / José Manuel Faria / have? 2. What language / he / speak at home? 3. What work / his wife / do? 4. How often / he / travel to Bilbao? 5. Why / he / go / to Bilbao? 6. He / like / living in Barcelona? 7. What / he / enjoy doing / in his free time?

Student B: Read about José Manuel Faria and answer student A’s questions a. Reading text José Manuel Faria lives with his wife and two sons in Barcelona. After seven years in Spain they all speak Spanish, but at home their language is Portuguese, and his wife works as a translators in both languages. José Manuel spends most of his tome working in Barcelona but every Monday h goes to Bilbao to visit his company’s factory and have meetings with people there. He likes living in Barcelona and in his free time he enjoys swimming with his sons and walking in the mountains.

b. Prepare questions about Kensuke Matsumura to ask student A. Use the words below and the Present Simple 1. Where / kensuke Matsumura / work? 2. He / live in Tokyo? 3. How long / his journey to work / take? 4. How many hours a day / he work? 5. how much time / he / spend / on phone calls and s? 6. What / he / do / to relax? 7. What / he / do / once a month? 8. How many week’s holiday a year / he / have?

II. Describing a company Read the phrases for describing a company 1.(Unilever / Renault) started in……./ dated from………….. 2. (It) has companies in…..../ subsidiaries in…………. 3. (Its) head office is in (It) produces / manufactures….../ sells………….. 5. (It) employs ……/ has.?...employees 6. (Its) worldwide turnover is……….. 7. (It) has (two) divisions / (five) business groups/ (many) well-know brands

III. Student work in group A and group B Group A: Look at the information about Unilever. Prepare a short presentation about the company. Use the suitable phrases from II UNILEVER Nationality: British - Dutch Started: 1930 Head offices: Rotterdam and London Employs: 247,000 people in 57 countries Worldwide turnover: € 48,760m Spending on R + D: 2.3% of sales Global divisions: Food – over 50% of sales Home and Personal Care

Business groups: 10 regional groups to meet needs of local markets Sells its products in : 150 countries to 150 m customers Unilever’s well-known consumer brands includes: Food Home and Personal Care KnorrOmo Lipton’s teaCif Hellmann's mayonnaise Domestos Magnum ice-creamDove FloraLux (Figure for 2002)

Group B: Look at the information about Renault. Prepare a short presentation about the company. Use the suitable phrases form II. RENAULT Nationality: French Started: 1898 Head offices: Paris Employs: 132,351 people in 36 countries Worldwide turnover: € 36,336m Spending on R + D: 5,6% of revenue Global divisions: Automotive – 93,1% of revenue Finance – 5% of revenue

The automotive Division: The Renault Group: + Renault, Samsung (South Korea), and Dacia 9Romania) + 3 rd largest company in France + 4,4% world market share Top selling cars – megane, Clio, laguna Renault Nissan Group: world’s 5 th largest automobile manufacturer (figure for 2002)