Actividad 2

2.1 Reading

·         2.1.1 Read article From small town to global leader on page 9 of your Market Leader book and develop exercises A to B.

A.  Read this article. Then complete the chart below.

ANGELA AHRENDTS
Age	50
Job	Burberry
Nationality	Indiana
Family	Is important
Interests outside work	To eat a takeaway pizza, with her children or play basketball with them

B.  Decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.

1.    Burberry is an American company.	(F). It’s a British company.
2.    Burberry is a global fashion company.	(V) the 2.2 billian fashion company
3.    All Anrendts’s children are teenagers.	(V) They have a son 15 and two daugthers (14 and 11)
4.    They are at school in America.	(F) The are at an american international school in London
5.    Most mornings, Ahrendts is up before 5 a.m.	(V) she usually get up aroun 4:30
6.    She is away on business most weeks.	(F) She travels on business one week a month
7.    She has a lot of interests outside work.	(F) she don’t have time for other things
8.    For Ahrendts, keeping in contact with relatives is important.	(V) it’s very important.

·         2.1.2 Open your Market Leader book on page 16, read article Business diary: Eugene Kaspersky, and develop exercises A to E. Send these exercises in the Word file corresponding to Study Guide 1. DO NOT take photos of the pages and paste them on the Word file; you have to type these exercises (including the instructions).

A.  Before you read the article, discuss these questions.

1.    What do you think is a typical day in the life of the CEO of a big company?

We think it should be very busy, full of many meetings and attending multi requirements of all departments

2.    How much time do CEOs spend travelling

We consider must be the majority of the time, obviously if the company does has a lot offices in different cities or countries.

3.    Do CEOs need holidays.

of course the ceos need days off & share special days with her family for that this helps that will reduce stress levels faced day by day.

B.  Look through this article. Can you find any of the ideas you discussed in Exercise A?

Probably we have the image from the ceos are more rigid and formal, plus they are very distant with regular workers, but in the case of the CEOs that shows us on article is a person very warm and very human.

C. Answer these questions.

1.    Is Kaspersky a formal or informal CEO?

He is a informal CEO

2.    Is most of his business in Russia or in orther countries?

The company is Based in Moscow and has offices in 29 countries. The CEO spends 50 % of his time in Moscow, But the other 50% his travels.

3.    Does he work 24/7 (24 hours a day, seven days a week)?

No, he don’t work 24/7. Although that sometimes during business trips he sleeps little, but in his normal routine in the Moscow office he goes to gym with her personal trainer, to relax.

D.  Decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.

1.    Kaspersky travels a lot. (T)

2.  He wears formal business clothes in the office. (F

3.  He gets up early every day. (F)

4.  He goes to the gym after work. (T)

5.  He likes to have time to relax when he’s in Moscow. (T)

6.  He only has holidays in summer. (F)

  

E.  In each box, match the words that go together.

·         2.1.3 Develop exercises A to E on page 24 of your Market Leader book.

A.  Which of these adjectives describe work in a call centre?

Badly paid.

boring

interesting

noisy

quiet

relaxing

stressful

Well paid

B.  Three call-centre workers answer the question ‘What are the biggest problems for you at work?’. Read their replies.

C. Look at the chart and tick the problems the call-centre workers talk about in the replies. Who talks about each problem? Write Birgit (B), Vijay (V) or Kevin (K).

PROBLEMS	NAME
Long working day	V
Breaks too short	K
Long hours at Workstation	B
Boring work	K
No promotion	K
Angry customers	V
Low pay	K
No time between calls	K
High staff turnover	K
A lot of noise	B

D.  Which three physical problems are mentioned in Birgit’s reply?

Get headaches

Hearing Problems

Backache

E.  Underline the adjectives from Exercise A in the replies.

Badly Paid

Boring

Noisy

Stressfull

Well paid

2.2 Listening

·         2.2.1 Go over Learning Object 2 to get familiar with common structures of the simple present tense and then be able to talk about a common business daily routine. Now you can try a similar dialogue with a classmate.

·         2.2.2 Open your Market Leader book on page 8 and develop exercises A to B on listening. 2.2.3 Go to page 18 of your Market Leader book and develop exercises A to E on listening.

A.  CD1.8 Jeremy Keeley is a consultant. Listen to him introducing himself in the first part of the interview and decide whether these statements are true (T) or False (F). Correct the false ones.

1.    He lives in London. (F) he’s live in a small a city in england near London Called st albans.

2.  He has three very Young children. (F) He has three teenage children

3.    He runs his own business (V)

4.    His business Works for organisations across the USA and Asia. (F) He has work for organisations across the UK and in Europe

5.    He helps leaders become better leaders. (V)

6.    He always shakes hands when he meets peaple. (V)

B.  CD1.9 Listen to the second part. Complete what Jeremy says about meeting new business contacts and exchanging business cards.

I usually say, Hello, How 1 are you?, Where .2 do you come from?, What 3 do you do?, I usually find out What’s 4 ‘s important to them, Why ….5 they’re there. I usually wait until they’ve asked me a question before I talk too much about myself.

I usually…Wait..6 until the person i’m meeting offers..7 me a business card before I offer them mine, so we’ll…exchange…. them at that point.

A.    CD1.22 Listen to the first part of an interview with ros pomeroy. What does she like most about her job?

She  likes  work is that there is no such thing as tipycal day, she has work for differents clients on differents projects and she has to be ready for any client request    she's can work in the office, in the computer or in the phone.

B.    CD1.22 Listen again and complete these notes.

Ros can be:

·         In Work…1

·         …I can be running..2 a workshop or a …discussion..3

·         In her own…office….4 in front of a …Computer…5 screen

·         On the …Phone…6

C.   CD1.23 Listen to the second part of the interview and answer these questions.

1.    What two things sometimes make it difficult to find enough time for leisure?

She works very long hours  and 2  she have children teenage.

2.    Overall, does Ros have enough time for leisure?

Yes, she have enough time for leisure

D.   In pairs, predict what Ros likes doing to relax.

She read to newspaper the weekends and she likes to get outside a running and breathe fresh air.

E.    CD1.24 Listen to the final part and check your answers

·         2.2.4 Develop exercises A to C on page 23 of your Market Leader book.

A.    CD1.34 Jeremy Keeley, a specialist in change leadership, talks about problems he has at work. Listen to the first part of the interview and decide whether these statements are true (T) or False (F). correct the false ones.

1.    Jeremy often Works with a large number of people. (F) he's  running her own business and working on their own.

2.    His clients have quite complicated problems. (V)

3.    Jeremy’s biggest problema is having enough time to do a good job. (V)

4.    He also faces urgent requests for help when he is already very busy. (V)

B.    CD1.35 Listen to the second part, in which Jeremy talks about the biggest problems in companies, and complete these notes.

1.    Biggest problem – amount of…change….1 they have to go through at speed.

2.    Second problem – difficult to plan their needs and resources (staff…the equipment…2,…the property the ….3, money they need to satisfy their customers).

3.    Another problem – customers expect them to reduce……their prices…4 at the same time as companies have increasing.

C.   CD1.36 Listen to the third part of the interview and answer these questions.

1.    What sorts of problem is Jeremy asked to salve?

Probably biggest problem they face  is the amount of change they have  to go through all the time and they have to go through that change fast at speed

2.    What was the problem Jeremy had to solve?

Recently there was a computer system that had to be introduced that affected millions of customers and their bills.

3.    Which different groups did he bring together to salve the problema?

He brought the technical team, the business team, the project team and the suppliers together.

·         2.2.5 Check your answers by reading the audio scripts on pages 158, 159 and 160.

·         2.2.6 Open this video http://goo.gl/Tk5SmN and answer the questions as follows in the Word file to be delivered:

• Write at least three different greetings Anna uses to say hello to her friends.

Good morning, how are you?

Hi dev are you doing?

Good morning everybody

• Where is Mr. Cho from?

He's from taipei

• What is Mr. Méndez profession?

He’s the programmer.

• Why is the Japanese girl travelling?

She travels for his studies

• What time does the class supposed to start?

Class to starts eight o’clock

• Who is the first person the Japanese girl talks to when she gets inside the room?

He’s the instructor of the class

• Why is the brown-skin woman mad at Sam?

She has mad because sam is clutter