1. BUSINESS CONFERENCE Tight-budget conference

2. 1.What skills do you think makes a great organizer? What additional skills would you need if you wanted to do the job? How would you develop them? 2.Would you enjoy organizing actions, conferences, meetings, or business presentations as your job? Why or why not? 3.Imagine you want to invite a group of investors to your school to persuade them to sponsor your school. What things would need to be arranged? What arguments would you use to convince them to invest their funding into your needs. How would you organize their day in your school? Discuss your ideas with the class. Exercise 1

3. 1.The boss read Larry’s e-mails. 2.It is more expensive to organize a conference in a big hotel than in an independent conference centre. 3.The boss would prefer to hold the conference in a conference centre near the airport. 4.The boss will stay in a hotel near the conference centre. 5.Larry should send the participants a list of hotels which are near the conference centre. 6.The boss decided to serve drinks during the conference but no meals because it costs too much. 7.Larry shouldn’t look for a catering company because it would be too complicated. 8.Larry and Collin were supposed to prepare a video about their company but they weren’t sure how to do it. Exercise 2 Are these statements TRUE or FALSE?

4. Listen and fill in the gaps Exercise 3

5. Match the English expressions with their Czech equivalent Exercise 4

6. ROLE PLAY 1. Watch the video again and try to remember as much as you can about what was discussed. 2.Create your own dialogue with a follow-up phone call to the boss. Use some of the expressions from the video Larry has not been able to follow the boss’s directions for the catering. He needs to convince the boss of some major changes to the directions he gave him. Larry found an alternative menu at a cheaper price. Larry explains to his boss, “The problem is that……” Use your imagination to complete the sentence and create a role play that uses humor to solve Larry’s problems. 3.Take turns being the boss and Larry. Perform your dialogue. Exercise 5

7. Exercise 6 TEST