learning page. presenters: nguyen ngoc ai tho vuong ut bach lan
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Learning page
Presenters:
NGUYEN NGOC AI THO
VUONG UT BACH LAN
LanguagLanguage focuse focusI. Listen to three extracts from interviews for a
business magazine. Complete the information about
the three people.
Extract 1: Click here to listen
Name: José Manuel Faria
Job: …………………………………….Food Division
Company: Unilever
Place of work: ………………………….
Extract 2: Click here to listen
Name: Genèvieve Cresset
Job: Team Coordinator
Company: Téléimages
Place of work: …………………………………
Extract 3:Click here to listen
Name: Kensuke Matsumura
Job: …………………………
Company: Electrolux
Place of work: …………………………………
II. Listen to the interview extracts again. José
Manuel, Genèvieve, and Kensuke all need English for
different activities at work. Which activities?
Extract1 Extract2 Extract3
III. Work in group. Answer the questions
1. Do you need English for any of the activities you
listed in II?
2. Make a list of needs for your group.
Focus on Focus on FunctionsFunctions
I. Work in pairs. Answer the questions
1. When do people in your country shake hands?
2. What do you say in English when you don’t hear a
person’s name?
3. When do you say Good morning/ Good afternoon/
Good evening/ Good night?
INTRODUCTIONS, GREETING AND
GOODBYES
II. Look at the
introductions and
greetings from three
conversations. Underline
the phrases people use
when they meet someone
for the first time1. Excuse me, are you..?
Hello, how are things?
May I introduce myself ? I’m...
How do you do?
2. Nice to see you again
How are you?
How’s life?
How’s the family?
3. Let me introduce you to…
I’d like to introduce you to…
Please to meet you…
Good to see you again…
III. Walk around and introduce yourself
to other people in the group. Greet
some one you know. Practice
introducing people and saying
goodbye.
Skill Focus
ENGLISH IN THE WORLD
A.Do the quiz in pairs. What do you know about English?
1.More than…….people speak it as second or foreign language.
2.Over…….of the information on the Internet is in English
3.……of the people who use the Internet communicate in English.
4.About…....the population of the European Union speak English.
5.……of the people in the European Union who don’t speak English as a first language think it’s the most important language to learn.
6.The estimated number of people in the world who are learning English at present is over………..
Listen to an interview with a language expert about
English and check your answer.
II. There’re about 20.000 English words in Japanese today.
Can you say which English words these Japanese words
come from?
Food and drink – hambaagaa, chikia, biirie,
jyusu
Communication – ratio, terebi, iimeeru
Think about different topics
III. Discuss your opinions
1.Why do you think there are a lot of
English words in other languages?
2. The governments of some
countries are against the use of
English words. What do you think?
Are you for or against the use of
English in your language?
IV. Complete the article about Genèvieve Cresset. Use
the Present Simple or Present Continuous form of the
verbs in brackets.
Genèvieve Creset…(1)..(start) work at 9 a.m
and …(2)…(finish) around 6 or 7 p.m. The
company she …(3)…(work) for - Téléimages…(4)..
(produce)TV programmes and…(5)…(sell) them to
TV channels in France and other countries. About
a hundred people…(6)...(work) full-time in the
company’s Champs - Elysée office Genèvieve …
(7)...(no have) much time outside work but at
present she…(8)…(work) on an important project
– she ….(9)....(write) a book.
The book is about the wartime
memorized of two World War II soldiers.
“They were heroes”, she says, “so right
now I …(10)...(record) their stories for
the future. I think it …(11)...(be)
important we ….(12)...(not forget) the
enormous courage of people like them.”
1. starts 4. produces 7. 10. am recording
2. finishes 5. sells 8. is working 11. is
3. works 6. 9. is writing 12. don’t forget
PracticeI. Students work in pairs. Each student is
given a reading text and a list of
unscrambled questions. Each pair will ask
and answer each other’s questions
according to the information provided in the
two reading texts.
Student A: Read the text about Kensuke Matsumura and answer
student B’s questions
a. Reading text
Kensuke Matsumura works in Tokyo but he doesn’t live
there, he goes to work by underground and his journey takes
one and a half hours. He works nine hours a day or more and
usually takes work at weekends. He spends about five hours a
day on phone calls and emails. He doesn’t get much time to
relax but he enjoys watching TV, and once a month he does
kendo. Like a lot of managers in Japan he has two weeks’
holiday a year, and usually takes one week in the summer and
the other in the winter.
b. Prepare questions about José Manuel Faria to ask student B.
Use the words below and the Present Simple
1. How many children / José Manuel Faria / have?
2. What language / he / speak at home?
3. What work / his wife / do?
4. How often / he / travel to Bilbao?
5. Why / he / go / to Bilbao?
6. He / like / living in Barcelona?
7. What / he / enjoy doing / in his free time?
Student B: Read about José Manuel Faria and answer student A’s
questions
a. Reading text
José Manuel Faria lives with his wife and two sons in
Barcelona. After seven years in Spain they all speak Spanish,
but at home their language is Portuguese, and his wife works
as a translators in both languages. José Manuel spends most
of his tome working in Barcelona but every Monday h goes to
Bilbao to visit his company’s factory and have meetings with
people there. He likes living in Barcelona and in his free time
he enjoys swimming with his sons and walking in the
mountains.
b. Prepare questions about Kensuke Matsumura to
ask student A. Use the words below and the
Present Simple
1. Where / kensuke Matsumura / work?
2. He / live in Tokyo?
3. How long / his journey to work / take?
4. How many hours a day / he work?
5. how much time / he / spend / on phone calls and
emails?
6. What / he / do / to relax?
7. What / he / do / once a month?
8. How many week’s holiday a year / he / have?
II. Describing a company
Read the phrases for describing a company
1. (Unilever / Renault) started in……./ dated from…………..
2. (It) has companies in…..../ subsidiaries in………….
3. (Its) head office is in........
4. (It) produces........./ manufactures….../ sells…………..
5. (It) employs ……/ has.?...employees
6. (Its) worldwide turnover is………..
7. (It) has (two) divisions / (five) business groups/ (many)
well-know brands
III. Student work in group A and group B
Group A: Look at the information about Unilever. Prepare a
short presentation about the company. Use the suitable
phrases from II
UNILEVER
Nationality: British - Dutch
Started: 1930
Head offices: Rotterdam and London
Employs: 247,000 people in 57 countries
Worldwide turnover: € 48,760m
Spending on R + D: 2.3% of sales
Global divisions: Food – over 50% of sales
Home and Personal Care
Business groups: 10 regional groups to meet
needs of local markets
Sells its products in : 150 countries to 150 m customers
Unilever’s well-known consumer brands includes:
Food Home and Personal Care
Knorr Omo
Lipton’s tea Cif
Hellmann's mayonnaise Domestos
Magnum ice-cream Dove
Flora Lux
(Figure for 2002)
Group B: Look at the information about Renault. Prepare a short
presentation about the company. Use the suitable phrases form II.
RENAULTNationality: French
Started: 1898
Head offices: Paris
Employs: 132,351 people in 36 countries
Worldwide turnover: € 36,336m
Spending on R + D: 5,6% of revenue
Global divisions: Automotive – 93,1% of revenue
Finance – 5% of revenue
The automotive Division:
The Renault Group:
+ Renault, Samsung (South Korea), and Dacia 9Romania)
+ 3rd largest company in France
+ 4,4% world market share
Top selling cars – megane, Clio, laguna
Renault Nissan Group:
world’s 5th largest automobile manufacturer
(figure for 2002)