English for Business Life Elementary

UNIT 4 Your business activities
1 Dialogue
- What does your company do?
- We're in the computer business. We import
programmes from the States and Japan.
- Where do you do most of your business?
- About eighty per cent of our business is in
Western Europe.
- Do you do much business in the Middle East?
- No, not much.
- How are things going at the moment?
- Very well. We're selling a new programmes for
managers in medium-sized companies, and it's going
very well.
UNIT 5 The location of your company
1 Reading a map: compass points
Manchester is about a hundred and sixty miles north-west
of London - that's about two hundred and sixty
kilometres.
Dover is about sixty-five miles south-east of London -
that's a hundred and five kilometres.
Ipswich is also sixty-five miles away from London, to the
north-east.
Brighton is about sixty miles to the south of London -
ninety-seven kilometres.
Note 1 kilometre = 1.609 miles
UNIT 6 The layout of your company
1 Identifying a building
- What's that place opposite the main gate?
- It's our service centre. Maintenance are on the
first floor.
- Do you have a showroom?
- Yes, that place on the right of the main gate is a
showroom. The one on the left of the gate is the admin
block. And that building past the admin block on the
left is a conference centre.
- Where's your production?
- It's behind that service centre in front of us.
- Oh ... And do you have a car park?
- Yes, it's next to the production building, between the
showroom and Goods Inwards. Goods Inwards and
Stores are in a building just behind the car park.
- Do you test your products on the site?
- Yes, the testing area is down there. Go down there and
it's next to the conference centre.
Note What's = What is
Speaker 2 has a US accent
UNIT 7 Meeting and welcomin
1 Greetings and introductions
e.g. Speaker 1: Hello, Maria. How are you?
Maria: Oh, hi. I'm very well. How are you?
a Walt Simpson: Mekka, this is Walt Simpson.
Mekka: It's nice to meet you.
Walt Simpson: It's nice to meet you, too.
b Angie Blep: Hello, my name is Angie Blep.
Glen Turno: Welcome to KPG. I'm Glen Turno.
c Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Hello, good morning.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful day.
d John Ginene: Mr Kuomi, this is John Ginene,
the manager.
Mr Kuomi: How do you do?
John Ginene: How do you do, Mr Kuomi?
e Rob: Hi, I'm Rob.
Jan: Hi, I'm Jan.
Rob: Pleased to meet you, Jan.
f Speaker 1: Hello, I'm back.
Speaker 2: It's nice to see you. How was your flight?
g Speaker 1: Mustafa, come and meet Gerry. Gerry, this
is Mustafa.
Gerry: Hi Mustafa. It's nice to meet you.
h Speaker 1: Good afternoon Pierre.
Pierre: Good afternoon.
Speaker 1: How was your trip to Moscow?
UNIT 8 The first two minutes
1 A chance meeting in Japan
- How do you like Tokyo?
- I really like it. It's very interesting.
- Is this your first visit to Japan?
- Yes, it is.
- How long are you here for?
- Three days.
- When are you leaving?
- On Tuesday evening.
- Well, nice talking to you. Enjoy your stay.
- Thanks. Nice talking to you too. Bye.
UNIT 9 Partings and thanks
1 Goodbyes and thanks
- Hi John. I have the documents here, but I need
your signature.
- OK.
- Sign here and here, please.
- Right.
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