Unit 3 Where do you work

 Unit Goals Unit Goals  Part 1 Practical Listening & Speaking Part 1 Practical Listening & Speaking  Part 2 Business Speaking Part 2 Business Speaking  Part 3 Listening Practice Part 3 Listening Practice  Part 4 Fun Listening Part 4 Fun Listening

Unit Goals When the students finish learning this unit, they should be able to know how to describe a company know how to talk about types of business understand the dress code in the workplace

Lesson 5 Part 1 Practical Listening & Speaking  A. Word Study A. Word Study  B. Functional Listening B. Functional Listening  C. Language Check C. Language Check  D. Controlled Practice D. Controlled Practice  E. Business Culture E. Business Culture

A. Word Study huge multinational 大型跨国公司 client 客户 office 办公室；办事处 turnover 营业额 branch 分公司 base 立基于；以... 为基础 subsidiary 子公司 employ 雇佣 found 成立、建立 pre-tax profit 税前利润 specialize in 专营 export 出口 office furniture 办公室家具 headquarters 总部 manufacturer 制造商、生产商

B. Functional Listening Task: Describing a company: listen to the recording and fill in the blanks. Sally: Where do you work, John? John: I work for HDF. Sally: Is that a German company? John: No, (1) ___________________________. Sally: Where is the head office of your company? John: Our head office is in Boston. Sally: How many people are there in your company? John: There are(2) ____________________________________. Sally: Wow, that's a big company. John: Yes, it's a multinational. Sally: How many branches do you have? John: We have a subsidiary in India, and 20 branches all over the world. (3) _________________________________ in Shanghai. Sally: When was your company founded? it's an American company 30,000 employees in our company We are now opening a sales office John: Our company was founded in Sally: And what's the main activity of your company? John: (4) ______________________________. We specialize in office furniture

How to talk about your company? the head office and branches the number of employees and company’s history types of business markets and clients turnover and profits talk about

C. Language Check  Task One: Talking about the head office and branches A: ________ is the headquarters of your company? B: Our headquarters is in Boston. A: _________branches do you have? B: We have a subsidiary in Hong Kong, and we have 30 branches all over the world.  Task Two: Talking about the number of employees and company’s history A: __________ people are there in your company? B: There are 30,000 employees in our company. A:________ was your company founded ? B: Our company was founded in Where How many When

 Task Three: Talking about types of business A: And what's the ____________ of your company? B: We _____________ in office furniture. A: Do you ___________ office furniture? B: Yes, we are a ______________of office furniture.  Task Four: Talking about markets and clients A: ___________ are your main markets? B: Our main markets are in Europe. We are now expanding in Asia, especially in China. A: Do you have any ____________ in China now? B: Not at the moment. main activity specialize make manufacturer Where clients

 Task Five: Talking about turnover and profits A: Could you tell me your ___________of last year? B: Sure. It was about $ 20 billion. A: And would you mind telling me your pre-tax __________ of last year? B: Sorry. i'm afraid I don't know that. turnover profits

D. Controlled Practice  Work with your partner to make a dialogue on the following chart. YOU Where do you work? Based? Founded? Main activity? Main market? Employees Turnover of last year? Branches? An office in China YOUR PARTNER I work for J&Q. in Oxford in 1985 deal in office furniture the UK and the U.S.A 1,000 just over $11.5 million 10 branches in the world one in Shanghai

E. Business Culture--- Dress Code Listen to a passage and discuss the following questions with your partner. (1) How should you dress in the workplace? Formal or informal? (2) Which workplace is more formal, the American one or the Chinese one? (3) Do you think people can wear casual clothes in the office on Friday?

Pair Work A Role Play B Part 2 Business Speaking

A. Pair work Task: Work with your partner to match the sentences on the left with the similar sentences on the right. 1) Our company was founded in ) Where are you based? 3) How many people are there in your company? 4) There are 30,000 employees in out company. 5) what’s the main activity of your company? 6) We deal in office furniture. 7) We specialize in office furniture. 8) We manufacture office furniture. 9) How much money did your company make last year? A. How many people work for your company? B. We employ 30,000 people. C. Where is your company? D. Our company was established (set up) in E. We are a manufacturer of office furniture. F. We are in the office furniture business. G. What were your company’s profits of last year? H. What does your company do? I. We are only in the office furniture business.

B. Role play Task: You work in one of the following companies. Describe your company to your partner with the help of the information provided, and then change roles. CompanyNationalityHeadquartersProducts JapanTokyoConsumer electronics GermanyStuttgartMotor vehicles AmericaOak BrookCatering AmericaAtlantaSoft drinks