商务英语 Unit 8 People

商务英语Unit 8 People 教材：新视野商务英语（上）

Unit 8 People • Objectives • Key vocabulary • Lead-in • Language focus • Skills • Business communication • Homework

Objectives When the learners finish learning this unit, they should be able to • providing information on People • collecting information on People

Language focus • Going to for future plans and intentions • Will for the future • Pronunciation: weak forms of to /tə/, short form of will

Lead-in Look at the survey on page 84, then choose six factors which are important for you. Compare them with a partner.

Skills • Writing: clauses of contrast • Reading: management styles • Listening: aspects of work

Key vocabulary salary motivation job satisfaction social interaction status achievement asset higher productivity styles of management

Going to USE We use going to to talk about what we want to do or intend to do in the future. Plans may or may not already by made. §I am going to spend some time in the UK to improve my English. §I am not going to take that low-paid job. §What are you going to do at the end of the training course?

Form: be+going+infinitive with to (be+going+带to的不定式)

Will USE We use will to talk in general terms about the future, not about a particular time in the future. §The training programme will teach you about organisations. §Will I get any training?

will+infinitive without to (will+不带to的不定式) Form Will is a modal verb, so the form is the same for all subjects: I , you, he, she, it etc. We usually use the shortened forms ‘ll and won‘t in speech, but we use will and will not in writing.

Pronunciation: Notice how to is pronounced. • I am going to try to prioritise more. • I am going to set myself more realistic deadlines.

Reading: • The text is about the different styles that men and women have in the workplace. Look at the cartoons and say which figures you think represent men and which represent women? • Read the text and see if the writer’s ideas are the same as yours. • The text has eight main sub-sections. Match the cartoons on page 90 to the sections.

Writing: clauses of contrast 对比状语从句 Clauses of contrast give information that surprises, or contrasts with the main clause. We use the conjunctions although, however and but to show contrast between ideas.

although Although it is late, I am still at the office. I am still at the office although it is late. but I like her style, but I do not like her ideas. But is a co-ordinating conjunction and joins two contrasting ideas of equal importance. It comes in the middle of the two ideas.

however The new MD is a woman. However, her management style is quite masculine. The new MD is a woman. Her management style, however, is masculine. However is formal.It contrasts the ideas in the second sentence with the ideas in the first sentence.

Homework: • Why are goods more expensive in some countries than in others? • What verbs can we use to give possible reasons? • When do we use the passive? • Think of three verbs to describe a downward trend. • Think of three verbs to describe a upward trend.

Listening Job satisfaction 1. Three things that are important to Morna in ajob:____________________________. Management styles 2. She likes a manager to be________, but at the same time to be ________. In other words the manager allows her to get on with it, but is there to________her.

Workplace culture 3. Spain and Britain are probably similar now, but when Morna worked in spain she noticed that_______________________. Managers 4. Morna’s favourite manager was_______. She allowed her to get on with the work and to_______(it was not the end of the world) and Morna_____________.

商务英语 Unit 8 People