Project One---Starting Your Business Business Equipment

Teaching Objectives 1. To enable Ss to talk about business equipment 2. To review languages for giving instructions and practice form filling

Teaching steps Step 1. Lead in Step 2. Vocabulary and grammar Step 3. Text A: office equipment Step 4. Text B: Giving instructions Step 5. Classroom exercises

Lead-in

Questions: 1 How much business equipment have you seen? List them. 2 What business equipment have you used before? Can you describe its instructions for use?

Vocabulary

Grammar - ImperativesImperatives Positive forms use the infinitive e.g. Press ‘delete’ to remove the file. Negative forms use Don’t or Never. e.g. Don’t /Never leave the photocopier on overnight. Imperatives are used in the following ways. ·To give orders or instructions e.g. Call the engineer if it doesn’t work. ·To make informal requests (often made more polite with will you?) e.g. Pass me that pen, will you?

Some and any some and any are used in the following ways. Some refers to an unspecified quantity. e.g. We’ve got some new computers. e.g. I don’t like some of their products. Any refers to a complete lack of something. e.g. There isn’t any coffee left. Any is used to form questions.( Some is also used in polite requests.) e.g. Do you have any photocopier paper? e.g. Would you like some coffee? Note! Negatives with there is /are can be formed two ways. e.g. There isn’t any paper left. There aren’t any disks left. e.g. There’s no paper left. There are no disks left.

Countable and uncountable nouns Countable and uncountable nouns have the following forms. Countable ： a computer, two computers Uncountable ： equipment, a set of equipment Uncountable nouns take a singular verb. Countable and uncountable nouns are used in the following ways. There is a printer. There is some equipment. There are some disks. There are a lot of books. There is a lot of paper. There aren’t many staples. There isn’t much toner. We only have a few computers. There is a little stationery left.

Text A Office equipment Reading Practice Read the two ads for photocopiers and do the following exercises.

Two Advertisements

Read the ads again and look at the sentences below. Choose “Right” or “ Doesn’t say” for each sentence. 1 The Agfa X220 has a lot of functions and is a convenient size A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say 2 Both copiers can make documents bigger and smaller. A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say 3 Agfa will back the photocopier after three years. A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say 4 The Xerox has a 5- year guarantee. A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say 5 The copiers can be bought or rented. A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say 6 The Xerox is a faster copier than the Agfa. A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say 7 If the customer buys the Xerox, the printer costs only ￡ 198. A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say 8 The Agfa can staple documents together. A Right B Wrong C Doesn’t say

Speaking

Reading

Text B Giving the instructions Listening The Accounts Dept at PYRAMID HAS bought a new shredder. The secretary Anna, has a problem. She telephones Becky in the Purchasing Dept.

B= Becky A = Anna B Purchasing A Hi, Becky. It’s Anna from Accounts here. B Hi. A Becky, you know that shredder we’ve just bought? B Yes? A Well, everyone keeps asking how to use it and I can’t find the operating instructions. B Ah! Now I think they may still be here. Hold on a second …yes, I have got them here, Anna, What do you want to know? A Well, What to do if it doesn’t work. You know, things like that. B Well, it says here that the machine jams if you insert too much paper into it. If that happens, press the red button, remove the excess paper and start again with less paper. A Right. Are there any other possible problems? B The motor overheats sometimes. If switches off automatically. Just leave it for minutes before you switch it on again. A Ok, I’ve got all that. Is there anything else I should know? B Yes, there are a few things to be careful about—like never put your fingers in the shredder. A That’s a bit obvious,isn’t? B And be careful with long hair and loose articles of clothing like ties. And that’s it. A Thanks, Becky. I’ll put a notice with the instructions on the wall next to the shredder. B Good idea. Listening materials

Answer

Speaking Give operating instructions for the following equipment

Exercises Imperatives: Use the correct form of the following verbs to complete the instructions below. Install delete dial file phone tick stop 1. Don’t install the new program until you have removed the old version first. 2. To get an outside line, _______________ nine first and then the number. 3. _______________ it to her –she hasn’t got the right software. Fax it to her instead. 4. Make a copy of the invoice and_______________ it in the payments folder. 5. _______________ the video until they’ve seen the bit about our new products. 6. Look at the list and_______________ the ones you want. 7. _______________ him now-he’s in a meeting and doesn’t want to be disturbed. 8. _______________ the old files. Copy them onto a floppy disk and keep it safe.

Thank you!