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Unit 5 Working together

Unit 5 Working together. Objectives Focus Warming up 5.1 Getting to know the workplace 5.2 Different kinds of companies 5 .3 Company organization 5.4 Company developments 5 .5 Working with others Sum-up Assignment. Objectives.

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Unit 5 Working together

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  1. Unit 5 Working together

  2. Objectives • Focus • Warming up • 5.1 Getting to know the workplace • 5.2 Different kinds of companies • 5 .3 Company organization • 5.4 Company developments • 5 .5 Working with others • Sum-up • Assignment

  3. Objectives When the learners finish learning this unit, they should be able to • Show someone physically around the office or premises • Describe how the business is organized or structured • Describe to outsiders or friends what their company actually does

  4. Focus • Getting to know the workplace • Sectors of industry and company organization

  5. Warming up A foreigner met you on your road and asks you to help him to direct him to the library, how would you describe?

  6. 5.1 Getting to know the workplace This section covers the important question of finding one's way about a company's premises either as someone who is new to the company or as a visitor. It concentrates on office life and how offices are laid out.

  7. ListeningListen for the recording, where are the different offices? Related vocabulary Accounts department canteen Coffee machine General manager gents toilet reception marketing dept. Lifts Photocopying room purchasing dept. Sales dept. conference room

  8. Sales Accounts Marketing Conference room Purchasing Canteen Stairs Lifts Personal Manager Mr. Robinson General Manager Coffee machine Gents Photocopying Ladies reception

  9. 5.2 Different kinds of companies • In this section various aspects of describing companies and referring to their activities are covered. • It deals with types of business and occupational structure in various sectors of industry and product groups.

  10. 5.2 A Do you know them? • Goods-producing companies belong to the secondary sector. • service-producing firms to the tertiary, etc. • The companies listed have been selected to fit into these two main categories.

  11. Answer to 5.2 A • Secondary: e.g. manufacturing Bayer Pepsi Saab-Scania Ford • Tertiary: e.g. services, banking, insurance, tourism, leisure BNP British Airways Sears Hilton International

  12. 5.2 B Fill in job • look through the article and then fill in the missing information

  13. Suggested answers to 5.2 B • business /major /secondary /services/ workers/ another /most /countries /work • Primary / labor /basic /fully /productive / economic / fishing /percent

  14. 5 .3 Company organization • This section deals with the divisions and departments of a company and the use of job titles within the company.

  15. 5.3 A Listening • Listen to the recording in which a man talk about the structure of his company. • Repeat how the three missing names are pronounced: Robert Leaf George Harris Chow Fung

  16. Answers to 5.3 A Managing Director: Robert Leaf* Finance Director: Weimin Tan* Marketing Manager: Rosemary Broo Production Manager: George Harris Personnel Manager: Deirdre Spence Research and Development Manager Dr Tarcisius Chin Planning Manager: Chow Fung General Manager, Singapore Factory: Lee Boon Eng member of the board of directors

  17. These are the equivalents USA GB President Chairman CEO MD Director Vice President Financial Accountant Controller Director Manager

  18. 5.4 Company developments • This section reviews the history of two well known companies. (This exercise should be completed at home to save time.)

  19. Answers to 5.4 A (1) • Suggested answers • DatesWhat happened?Who did what?1847Simens was foundedWerner Siemens & Johann Georg Halske1849Company was established in SprendilingenJohann Phiipp Holman1866Invention of dynamo machineWerner Siemens

  20. Answers to 5.4 A (2) • DatesWhat happened?Who did what?1882First large foreign order begunHolzman Co.1885Workforce exceeding 5,000Holzman Co.1917Aktiengesellschaft foundedHolzman Co.1950Foreign business restartedHolzman Co.1979Acquisition of J. A. Jones Construction CompanyHolzman Co.1981Purchase of Lockwood Greene Engineer, Inc.Holzman Co.1989Takeover of Steinmüller GroupHolzman Co.1992/3Recorded annual sales of DM 82 billionSiemens

  21. Answers to 5.4 A (3) • HolzmanSiemensLocations of the company's activitiesAmsterdam, Baghdad, East Africa, South AmericaIn more than 50 countriesActivities of both companies up to 1940sRailroad and railroad projects, all fields of building construction and civil engineeringPower engineeringRecent activities of the companiesPurchase of American companies and one of the most important German corporationsAn innovative leader on electrical and electronic market

  22. 5 .5 Working with others • This section deals with the functions of agreeing and disagreeing.

  23. 5.5 A 1) • Read the article about a different company: Samco. • Answer the questions given .

  24. Suggested answers 1 Workers 2 The assembly line and economies of scale 3 A quarter of employees fix their own 4 The workers decide 5 Employee 6 Employees 7 There are no central computers 8 There are no controls over expenses and business travel 9 He makes his own

  25. 5.5 A 2) read the second extract • Find the answers to these questions: 1)Who makes decision? 2) What have been abandoned ? 3)How are salaries decided? 4) How are profits shared? 5) Who recognizes the factories? 6) Who chooses new sites for development? 7) What role do computer play in the factory? 8)Who controls expenses and business travels? 9) Who makes the boss’s tea?

  26. Suggested answers • 1 Workers • 2 The assembly line and economies of scale • 3 A quarter of employees fix their own • 4 The workers decide • 5 Employee • 6 Employees • 7 There are no central computers • 8 There are no controls over expenses and business travel • 9 He makes his own

  27. 5.5 A 3）Read another extract Answer the questions: • What products dies the company make? • How have the profits of Semco developed recently? • What is the sales situation? • What happens to its output? • How would you describe Semco’s financial situation?

  28. Suggested answers • 1 Pumps, dishwashers and cooling units • 2 They have increased fivefold • 3 Good, $30 million • 4 23 per cent is exported • 5 Free of debt

  29. Sum-up In this unit, we learnt: • How to describe your workplace • The structure and organization of a company.

  30. Assignment • Write a letter to introduce a company. • Search for some information about a company on Internet (Group-work).

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