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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)