1. Business Vocabulary and Creating an oral Report
Lecture 3

2. Vocabulary

3. Meetings Vocab. Agenda Conference call Videoconference Unanimous
Power Point

4. Review Examples
“Did you all get copies of the agenda before the meeting?”
“We are waiting for a conference call from Tokyo.”
“Every week Microsoft has a videoconference with all of its regional offices.”

5. Examples
“If the vote is not unanimous that means someone is still unsatisfied with the plan.”
“Please design a Power Point for the meeting tomorrow.”

6. People in a company
Staff
Clerical
Executive
Personnel
Secretary

7. Review Examples
“The manager disagrees, so it doesn’t matter what the staff thinks.”
“We almost never leave our desks because most of our work is purely clerical.”
“He was not born as an executive. It took more than 15 years of hard work.”

8. Examples “The company headquarters has over 300 personnel.”
“In the past we could give all our clerical work to secretaries, not anymore.”

9. Parts of Companies Head of…. Marketing R & D Research and Development
Purchasing Department
Production
Board of Directors

10. More Parts of Companies
Accounting Department
Advertising Department
Public Relations Department
Human Resources Department
Sales Department

11. Review Examples “Murdoch is the head of Newscorp.”
“Bill is the head of marketing for Microsoft.”
“If R & D came up with some new ideas, we could make some more money.”
“What is wrong with purchasing? We already have too many items to sell.”
“Tell production that it’s not producing quickly enough.”

12. Examples “The Board of Directors works for the shareholders.”
“Accounting helps us make money without breaking the law.”
“The Advertising Department may be the department most responsible for Coke’s success.”
“After the accident, the Public Relations (PR) Department was busy day and night.”

13. Examples “If you want to apply for a job here, go to Human Resources.”
“Bob, the head of sales, can sell 40 cars a month.”

14. Creating an oral Report
Decide on a purpose
-Example: “Convince management to expand into Korea.”
Outline (Introduction, Body, Closing)
Note card
Practice
Visuals?

15. Speech Outline To help you organize your ideas
To give to the audience?
Especially for longer speeches
Don’t forget parts of speeches discussed in first lecture

17. Speech Note card To take to the speech To help you remember
Do not look at it too much!
Only has your main points
More than one card may be needed for many points or facts

19. Practicing Imagine Use only your note card
Remember to practice your voice and movements too
Pay attention to time
Pretend you are looking at and speaking with audience

20. Homework Read chapter 6 (visual aids)
Review your notes from the first lecture about oral reports (planning, openings, closings, differences between written and spoken work)