1. Company Structures

2. Contents Key Vocabulary: SB – pg. 4-5 Company Structures
Departments in a Company
Language Focus: SB – pg (exercise classes)
Verbs and prepositions
Past Simple vs. Present Perfect
Describing Changes
Skills: SB – pg
Describing jobs
Presenting companies

3. Unit 1. Company structures
Key vocabulary: Listening, New Insights into Business, page 4
SHAREHOLDERS
MANAGEMENT
COMPANY STRUCTURES
WORKFORCE
The Board (of Directors)
Chairperson/President
Organisation chart
Senior managers OR company officers
Managing Director or Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

4. Various departments or functions within a company
Key vocabulary: Listening New Insights into Business, page 4
Marketing
Public Relations
Information Technology, IT
Personnel or Human Resources
Finance
Production
Research and Development, R and D

5. KEY VOCABULARY shareholders - people who provide capital
workforce – all the people working in a company
Board of Directors – a group of persons who govern the corporation
Chairperson/ President – a person who heads the Board of Directors
Managing Director (MD)/ Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – person who has overall responsibility for the running of a company
Senior managers – monitoring and correcting the work of a group of people
Middle managers - lower executives and employees who supervise day-to-day operations

6. POSSIBLE EXAM QUESTIONS
Who is at the top of a company?
2. Which departments in a company do you know?

7. POSSIBLE ANSWERS
1. Who is at the top of a company? (Ko se nalazi na vrhu kompanije?):
At the top of a company hierarchy is The Board (of Directors). New Insights into Business pg. 4
2. Which departments in a company do you know? (Koje sektore u okviru kompanije poznaješ?):
Some of the various departments within the company are: Research and Development, R & D; Marketing, Public Relations, Information Technology, IT; Personnel or Human Resources, Finance, Production etc. (New Insights into Business pg. 4)

8. DESCRIBING JOBS I am (was) employed as I work (worked) in
I this role, I report directly to
The job involves
I am in charge of doing sth
I am responsible for doing sth
I was promoted to
The next position I held was…

9. Speaking How old are you? How much money do you earn?
What kind of a company do you work for?
Where did you study?
How long have you been with this company?
What are you responsible for?

10. PRESENTING COMPANIES Name of the company Headquarters Chairman
Number of employees
Business activities
Main markets
Sales in (year)

11. Speaking Where is the company based?
Where are the company’s headquarters?
How many people does the company employ?

12. TESCO

13. Unit 1: Company structures. Practice.
Fill in the gaps with the words given below. There are two words extra you do not need to use.
___________________________ IS A PERSON WHO PROVIDES THE CAPITAL. THE MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF A TYPICAL COMPANY IS SHOWN IN ITS ___________________________. AT THE TOP OF THE COMPANY HIERARCHY IS THE ___________________________, HEADED BY THE ___________________________.
THE ___________________________ IS RESPONSIBLE FOR POLICY DECISIONS AND STRATEGY.
___________________________ HAS THE OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RUNNING OF THE BUSINESS.
MANAGING DIRECTOR (CEO), SHAREHOLDER, WORKFORCE, CHAIRPERSON, PERSONNEL, ORGANISATION CHART, BOARD OF DIRECTORS (2X)
SHAREHOLDER
ORGANISATION CHART
BOARD (OF DIRECTORS)
CHAIRPERSON / PRESIDENT
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MANAGING DIRECTOR (CEO)

15. 1
Accounts Dept.
1. senior director after the chairman responsible for day-to-day direction 2
A.G.M.UK
2. the place where visitors and clients report on arrival at a company 3
board of directors
3. a company's principal or main office or centre of control 4
chairmanUK
4. department responsible for finding and buying everything needed by a company 5
director
5. Annual General Meeting of a company's shareholders 6
executive officerUS
6. the highest executive officer of a company; head of a company 7
headquarters
7. department responsible for Research and Development of (new) products 8
manager
8. department responsible for administering a company's financial affairs 9
managing directorUK
9. any of several executive officers, each responsible for a separate division 10
Marketing Dept.
10. person who holds or owns shares in or a part of a company or corporation 11
organisation chart
11. a member of the board of directors 12
Personnel Dept.
12. a group of people chosen to establish policy for and direct or control a company 13
presidentUS
13. department responsible for finding customers and making sales 14
Production Dept.
14. a table or plan showing a company's structure graphically 15
Purchasing Dept.
15. person who manages the affairs of a corporation - chief executive officer n. 16
R & D Department
16. dept. responsible for putting goods on market, inc. packaging, advertising etc 17
reception
17. department responsible for recruitment and welfare of staff or employees 18
Sales Department
18. person who heads a Board of Directors; head of a company; chairperson 19
shareholder
19. department responsible for physical creation of product 20
vice presidentUS
20. person responsible for day-to-day running of a dept.; executive officerUS

16. PAST Simple vs. Present Perfect

21. Describing changes
Intransitive verbs – verbs which do not have objects
Transitive verbs – verbs which have objects
Porast
Intransitive verbs: increase, rise, go up
The population is increasing.
Transitive verbs: increase, raise
The government has raised taxes.
Pad
Intransitive verbs: decrease, go down, fall, decline, drop
The prices have fallen.
Transitive verbs: decrease, reduce, drop
We reduced our prices.

23. Fill in the gaps with the suitable form of rise, arise and raise.
1. Sales ______________ (rise, arise, raise) by 20% over the 2014 Christmas period. 2. Last month, the bank ______________ (rise, arise, raise) interest rates to 15%. 3. If any problems ______________, (rise, arise, raise) let me know. 4. House prices are likely to ______________ (rise, arise,raise) towards the end of this year. 5. I shall certainly go to Scotland next year, if the opportunity ______________ (rise, arise, raise).
rose
raised
arise
rise
arises

24. Describing changes. Describing graphs.at
from of
under by of to

25. VERBS + PREPOSITIONS
Apply ……FOR………something/…TO………..somebody Benefit……………FROM……. Approve ………OF…….. Succeed………IN…………. Depend………ON……………….. Result …………IN……… Believe………IN…….. Refer…………TO………….. Belong……… TO Report………TO………..somebody/……ON……something

26. Practice, pg. 8

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