English Conversations 2

  "Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people" W. B. Yeats VOCABULARY Delete the verb that does NOT go 0 an email                        send/draft/ post 1. a phone call                    do/make/receive 2. a press release               put up/issue/put out 3. an advertising campaign               launch/run make 4. a presentation               give / make/ tell 5. a meeting or seminar          hold/attend/carry out 6. a report                         produce/run/publish 7. a notice                              put out/put...

 What would be your responses to this survey about significant aspects in the workplace? READING BOOST Read this extract from Business Strategies. Where do these four types of organisation belong to? stock brokers restaurants oil companies banks VOCABULARY & LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT SPEAKING SKILLS  Focus on an organisation you have worked for or have known. 1. How many ppl were employed there? 2. What was its business /specialty? 3. How was it organised? 4. How would you describe the culture? LANGUAGE SKILLS Let's play with Present Tenses https://create.kahoot.it/my-library/kahoots/db472f9f-0cab-4a49-b9c1-23235ffc9cde

 I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times" Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Watch the video and find   information on M&A  and other kinds of company growth. VOCABULARY Read the text below and label the diagram with the following words: subsidiary, headquarters, sales offices, warehouses, R&D division, main plant  We are based in La Défense, the business district of Paris, and new products are developed nearby at our labs in St Denis. Our principal manufacturing facility is just outside Lille and products go from there to the central distribution point at Compiègne. Three sales agencies cover the various regions of France with international offices in Frankfurt, Milan, and Madrid. The London office is run  by our UK subsidiary. What is the difference between: 1 a sales office and subsidiary 2 a warehouse and a plant 3 the headquarters and a division Find a synonym for each of the u...