商务英语 Unit 10 Company Performance 教材：新视野商务英语（下）

Unit 10 Company Performance  Objectives  Language Focus  Skills  Business communication  Key Vocabulary  lead-in  Reading  Homework

Objectives When the learners finish learning this unit, they should be able to  providing information on company performance  collecting information on company performance

Language focus  Nouns prepositions  Fractions and percentages

Skill  Writing: a company’s report  Reading: Anatomy of an annual report  Listening: Business Skills Focus: presentations

Business Communication  Giving a presentation

Key Vocabulary management accounts data financial accounts revenue profits losses listed companies annual report FAS MCS TLS ABAS anatomy

Lead-in 1. Ask students what they know about PricewaterhouseCoopers and the services that they offer. A pre-listening exercises focuses attentions on some of the activities that the speaker mentions on the cassette. You may need to go over the answers to this section in order to make sure that students have grasped the main ideas. 2.Students should try to complete the exercise before listening to the cassette.

Words and expression  director: a member of the board  chief executive officer: responsible for all operations  stockholder: bought shares in the company  chief financial officer: responsible for finance  chairperson: in charge of the board  auditor: an outside financial specialist

Language Focus Fractions and percentages  Fractions: 1.Most fractions are expressed using ordinal numbers 2.There are some exceptions A half A quarter Three quarters Three and a half Two and three quarters

 Percentages: When talking about interest rates we say The central Bank raised/lowered interest rates by a quarter of one percent.(0.25%) Interest rates are up/down half (of) a percentage point. (0.5%)

Reading This text is part of an IBM guide to help people to understand how financial information is presented in an annual report. Although this is quite a complex area of business English, this text explains clearly and concisely exactly what types of information can be found in the different parts of an annual report. It is important to point out that this particular document deals with the required and standard sections for American listed companies. As mentioned earlier, each country has its own regulations in matters of accountancy and this also applies to how information is presented in an annual report.

Homework  1. listening to the tape after class.  2.reciting the new words and the text of key vocabulary.  3.writing a composition.