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Office 1 The building
Individual offices (yes - not open plan)
Carpark (yes, but small)
Staff restaurant (yes, excellent)
Swimming pool (rx>)
Smoking room (yes - one smoking room on eocn floor)
The area
Railway station (no, but bus station;
Shops (some - not a. tot)
Fitness centre (yes, open to tne public)
Banks (yes, two)
Restaurants (yes, but only one - a good. Italian
restaurant)
There are 1,500 square metres of space.
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Communicating at work
Can I take a message?
STUDENT A
Call 1: Your name is Peter Wenk. You work for Zurich International Life Assurance. Your number is 00 41 1 4473322511. Call Florence Villemain to tell het that you are free on Friday morning from 9 to 11 o'clock.
Call 2: You work in the same office in Turin as Luigi Eranio. He is out of the office all day. Take a phone message for him and get the caller's name end number.
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STUDENT A
You prefer Ixmdon. You know il very well because you
have a holiday there every year. Prepare some reasons
for your choice and then discuss them with your
colleagues.
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STUDENT A
1 You work for Ihc Johnson Corporation. Be prepared to use Ihe information below to answer Student B's questions.
2 Prepare some questions to ask Student D about his/her organisation.
3 Now interview Student B and complete Ihe table on page 49.
| Name When slatted Head office Locations Main activities Other information |
Johnson Corporation
Chicago. USA
Chicago; and two factories - one near Chicago, the other outside Mexico City. Mexico
Manufacturing paints for the car industry
2,300 employees in total; 1.200 in Mexco. Business this year is good. The company wants to set up a factory in China next /ear
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STUDENT A
You are travelling to a trade fair in Tokyo. Japan. Telephone Ihe trade fair organiser (Student B} and ask for some travel information and about the culture of Japan. Use the information below.
Travel information You want ro know if:
• you have to get a visa to travel to Japan
• you have to buy a special mobile phone
• you should take traveller's cheques
• you should leave tips in restaurants
Cultural information You want to know if:
• you should use firs! names or not wilh business contacts
• you have to arriw on time for meelings
• you should wear casual clothes at business meetings
• you have lo shake hands with people every time you meet them
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| Building a new subway line from Heathrow airport to the centre of London. You are not enjoying things because you are having some technical problems. |
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| Job | Engineer |
| Company | DeltaCom |
| Hotel | Hilton |
| Current project | Building a i |
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STUDENT A
You receive this email from your boss.
Please could you call Jean Zidance and ask for the following information? I need to know asap. 1
Number of sales people Iron our company going to
the exhibition
Amount of exhibition space we have - 5m2 or 15m??
2 SalfiS
Number of new orders last month
Amount of money we spent on marketing last month
3 Travel
Number of days of foreign travel planned for next year.
Regards Martine Hugot
Plan Ihe quesiions you need to ask Jean Zidance. Then call Jean Zidance (Student B) and get ihe information.
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STUDENT A
You work with Anna Harland. Student B works with Simone Triquet. You need to arrange a management meeting early next week to discuss a trip to Poland. It is necessary to have a minimum of three people at management meetings. Look at your desk diaries below. Call Student B and arrange a time when THREE of you can meet.
| MON |
| am |
| am |
| am |
Remember to use the present continuous.
| You Anna | Student B | Simone |
| am am | am | am |
| Travel to HQ | ||
| to do job | ||
| interviews | ||
| pm pm | pm | pm |
| Travel to | ||
| Berlin for | ||
| conference. |
| TUES |
| pm |
| pm |
| am |
| am |
| WED |
| pm |
| pm |
am
| pm | pm |
| Meet Paolo | |
| Vterri | |
| am | am |
| Customer | |
| visit | |
| pm | pm |
| Leo-ve work | |
| tarUj - go | |
| to doctor |
26 Out of order
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STUDENT A
Imagine you have these problems.
• One of my customers always smokes in my office when he visits.
• My boss always arrives ten minutes late for our meetings.
• The coffee from the drinks machine tastes terrible.
• I work 60 hours a week. I don't have enough time for my family.
• My most important customer sends me too many emails. I get 20 or more from him every day.
Tell your partner your problems. Can he/she solve them for you?
2 Helping people to learn
Communicating at work 3
STUDENT B
Call 1: Student A phones you. Tell him/her you can email a copy of the new sales report today.
Call 2: Phone Student A and ask him/her for the time of the management meeting next week.
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Could you spell that, please?
STUDENT B
Ask your partner to write down these abbreviations:
VP VIP HR WTO PR
Check that he/she writes them down correctly.
Do you or your partner know what they mean?
Key to abbreviations Vice President Very Important Person Human Resources World Trade Organisation Public Relations
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