2. Dictionary Race Break down Trailblazer Turnaround Moustache Tarnished
Saloon
Dramatic
Decade
To change a situation from bad to good
Something you cant touch is damaged
A type of car with 4 doors which is usually quite big
10 years
When a motorized vehicle doesn’t work
When a man* grows hair between his lips and his nose
Something that happens in a big and exciting way
The leaders in new ideas and/or fashion for a particular area or business

3. What do you think of these cars?
Do you like them?
If your company was giving you a car would you want one?
What do you think of when you think of Mercedes Benz?

4. Success of Mercedes Benz 2000 to 2015
Read the article quickly, draw a line on this graph to show how successful Mercedes were between 2000 and year by year S U C E

5. Success of Mercedes Benz 2000 to 2015
Example only…this is not correct!!!
Read the article quickly, draw a line on this graph to show how successful Mercedes were between 2000 and year by year S U C E

6. Success of Mercedes Benz 2000 to 2015
Example only…this is not correct!!!
Read the article quickly, draw a line on this graph to show how successful Mercedes were between 2000 and year by year S U C E

7. True or False Game

8. The fall of Mercedes Luxury brand was not as severe as other brands

9. In 2002, Mercedes’ losses were its first for three decades

10. Dieter Zetche is the boss of Mercedes and Daimler

11. Mercedes consider BMW its biggest rival

12. The total redundancies were 29,000

13. Nobody used to get fired from Mecedes

14. The C-Class saloon is considered the top car by Mercedes

15. Mercedes future may focus on fuel efficiency

16. Read-in pairs-Which of these factors helped Mercedes improve its performance according to the article
Mr Zetsche’s walrus moustache
Having BMW as a rival
Being hard
Increasing jobs
Giving workers security for life
Using Mr Zetche’s operational experience
Cutting jobs
Building cars the experts want them to build
Lowering product quality
Improving the looks of new Mercedes cars
Producing new models
Using a team approach

17. Find your partner

18. Luxury-brand
Chief-executive
Parent-company
Fourth-quarter
Management-style
Fuel-efficient-models
Team-approach
Dramatic-effect

19. Viet-Cars

20. Viet Cars
Your company has decided to start making cars in Vietnam for Vietnam as they’re so expensive to import
But they don’t know what people in Vietnam would want that would get them to buy the car.
Your job is to design a car that would be very suitable for Vietnamese people to encourage people (who can afford it) to buy the car
Remember this will be cheaper just because it was made in Vietnam so more people will want to buy it

21. Your job
Discuss with your group what the car should look like and what features it should have.
Think about
Seats
Size
Engine features (fast, reliable, fuel efficient, loud, quiet etc)
Gadgets inside the car(air conditioning, radio, etc)
Color
Price (realistic for what type of car you have made –luxury, racing, budget etc)
Why people in Vietnam would really like it
Oh and you have to draw a picture of it!