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Ex. 15. Listen to the dialogues and finish the sentences in the course book.
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Interviewer Why did you choose the engineering programme at Saint – Petersburg State
Technical University?
Simonov I thought that engineering was a very promising career.
Interviewer What subjects did you like best?
Simonov Mathematics. I was good at it.
Interviewer What subjects did you like least?
Simonov Technical drawing. It was not my strong point.
Interviewer Why did you take your first job when a student?
Simonov I wanted to get experience.
Interviewer What were your responsibilities?
Simonov I developed systems of power supply for individual customers.
Interviewer Did you work under pressure?
Simonov Yes, we had tough deadlines..
Interviewer Thank you, Mr Simonov. We’ll call you in a week.
Simonov Thank you for the interview. Good bye.
Ex. 25.1 Listen and repeat
Hard, tough, staff, subject, department, production, unemployed, under, demand, part time, customer, much, father, uncle, after, bath, Sunday
Ex. 25.2 Listen and repeat
Applicant, flexible, plan, get, salary, health, pension, bad, relax, develop, manager, forget, thanks, everything, resume, analyst, reference
Ex. 25.3 Listen and repeat
Broker, doctor, driver, engineer, manager, lawyer, programmer, developer, free lancer, supervisor, PR officer, designer, customer, promotion, career, production, advertisement
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Ex. 16. Listen to the text and mark if the sentences are True or False.
Helen Hi, Mary. I know you moved on to SBM. What kind of business is it?
Mary Well, we produce a wide range of household goods of high quality.
Helen Is it a big company?
Mary SBM employs over 3000 people all over the country. There are around 200 employees
in this factory. There are three shifts and the production process never stops.
Helen Oh, that’s impressive. Is business going well?
Mary Yes. Now we have eight branches and are planning to open new ones.
Helen What are your responsibilities?
Mary I work in the Advertising dep. I’m responsible for promotion of our goods. I regularly
give on site presentations for our customers.
Helen Do you work in a team?
Mary Yes. In fact there are only four of us and we all come from an economical background.
We work in close cooperation with the Marketing dep. They do market research
before they can say that this product has sales potential.
Helen I wish you good luck in your business.
Mary Thank you, Helen.
Ex. 29. Listen and repeat
Human, two, supermarket, you, could, recruit, popular, interview, full-time, good, contribution, supervisor, who.
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Ex 8. Listen to the text and finish the sentences.
Todd and Thompson is a highly profitable company with a workforce of 100.
The company was founded by Mr. Lee Todd and Joseph Thompson in Birmingham. The founders of the company were still at University when they decided to go into business. The idea was to earn some extra money. Their business turned out to be a success and now Todd and Thompson is well established in the market. We have been in this business for 5 years. Our main products are frozen fruit and vegetables from South East Asia and Africa. Although the competition on this market is strong, we have been growing fast and have increased the turnover by 40% since 2004. This is mainly due to the fact that Todd and Thompson made a point of giving their customers the very best. Initially the target customers were families with average income from big cities. Lately we have changed our market strategy and turned to corporate customers. Todd and Thompson has ambitious plans of expansion. Later this year we will put a brand new product on the market. I’m sure, “4for4” will make company future even brighter.
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Ex 21. Listen to the numbers and put them into your notebook.
For and a half million, eighteen square inches, forty eighth, ninety two thousand six hundred and forty two, twelfth, twelve, fifty three per cent, twenty minutes to seven in the morning, plus sixteen degrees Centigrade, seventy two, three point two one seven.
That, three, office, is, sure, production, pass, through, third, third, see, they, everything, present, with, division, surname, advertise, television, please, pension, then, second, usually, think, shop, brother, result, distribution.
Ex. 26. Listen and repeat
That, three, is, office, sure, division, they, with, pass, present, television, production, usually, does, see, contribution, third, everything, surname, pension, then, advertise, please, second, shop, thank, brother, think, result, distribution
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Ex 12. Listen to the dialogues and fill in the blanks.
A Good afternoon everybody.
Thank you for coming to today’s meeting.
Who’s taking the minutes?...Miss Bryant? Fine.
There are two points to discuss today – outsourcing some non-core functions and the future
of our store in Birmingham.
E Sorry to interrupt, but aren’t we going to talk about reorganization of in-company
communication?
A I think we could discuss that under AOB, Philip. Now let’s start with the first item on the
agenda. I know there are different opinions about it, so the main purpose of today’s meeting
is to explore your views. Yoko, could you give us your report?
B As we all know, the key issue today is cost savings. We have done research into the
company cost structure and identified some non-core functions that eat into the budget. I’m
talking about document management and printing. If we outsource these functions, we will
dramatically reduce capital and operational expenditure.
C How much, Yoko?
B We will have reduced capital expenditures by 10% and operational expenditures by 12% by
the end of the year.
C That sounds interesting but can you just clarify how you worked out the figures.
B Certainly. I’ll do a quick break down for you on the flipchart. Look. Here are the figures for 2009 and here are the projections for 2010.
Ex 6.2
A OK Yoko, thanks. Em, Wanda, what do you think?
D I agree with Yoko about financial benefits of outsourcing, but...
C You’ve got a point here but what about security?
A Todd, let Wanda finish, please.
D Actually, that is what I was going to say.
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B I’m pretty sure that we needn’t worry about security too much. We are talking about non-
strategic departments not leading directly to senior management. The other point I want to
make is human error factor. This year our office staff have filed 5% of files incorrectly. That
means that company executives will have spent extra 150 hours searching for documents by
the end of the year.
D And if we outsource scanning and archival service...
B we will make time management much more efficient.
A OK then. We have looked at all your views. Could we take a vote now? All those in favour
raise your hands... Those against?... one. Any abstentions? None. The motion is carried by
four votes to one. Let’s move on to the next item on the agenda.
C Mmm. Can we have a short break now?
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