学术英语管理Unit

Before Be Back Later Frequently Asked Questions Laughs Out Loud Your/ you’re W/ Face to Face In my opinion Are You OK Got to go
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• Social customers • Cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough. • Don’t greet people with a kiss. • Don’t pick your nose in public. • Do say “sorry”. • Open doors for other people. • Say “Excuse me” ,“Please”and “Thank you”. • Smile • Respect other elders. • Social taboos • Ask for woman’s age, weight
Tip
• Subheadings enable readers to find detailed information quickly. Effective subheadings represent distinct aspects of a topic. They also give the reader an idea of how deeply a topic is covered.
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Subheadings
Find out the subheadings in Text A.
For help in choosing a career (prepositional phrase) To be a successful employee (infinitive phrase) To start your own business (infinitive phrase)
• Common sense • Feng shui (geomancy) of the office/factory/house
Try to establish social network
----Keep learning, advance with the times
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Theme sentences
The theme sentence for Text A is:
“Learning about business and how you can be involved as an employee, business owner, consumer, or investor can be fun!” (last paragraph)
An ordinary person who had a dream and worked hard to turn his dream into a reality.
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Subheadings
学术英语 管理
Academic English for Business
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Unit Contents
• Lead-in • Text A • Text B • Researching • Listening • Speaking • Writing
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To become a better informed consumer and investor (infinitive phrase)
Fast Reading
• Let’s do skimming and scanning, read Text A quickly and write down the theme sentence.
Lead-in
Lead-in Activity
1.Our course is called Academic English for Business, can you give me a definition of business? ( what does business mean to you?)
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Text structure
There are four types of people who may benefit from studying business.
• The film has been adapted from a play of the same title. 电影改编自一部同名戏剧。
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Complete the following tables about the main idea of Joe Dudley in Para.2.
College students taking courses or employees starting a career.
3 For whom this question might not be that difficult?
People willing to work hard, continue to learn and adapt to change.
• 6 What are the skills that you can learn from university courses?
• What are the skills that you need to learn outside the university?
Try to establish social network
opened schools and stores;
The social influence of his
success
American Dream
• Built one of the most successful minority-owned firms;
• Won the Horatio Alger Award
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Theme sentences
Where is the theme sentence for Text A?
Tip
Theme sentences are usually found at the introductory part or the conclusion part of a piece of business writing. If not, try looking at the subheadings.
2.Can you list some example for omnipresent business in our life?
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Lead-in Activity Exchange Time
Lead-in
In a group Go around in turns Take notes as you listen Summarize your discussions
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• Subheadings are usually marked out in a different font from the rest of the text. Or there is space inserted above and below them. They are either gerundial phrases, participle phrases, prepositional phrases or infinitive phrases.
Shop,food market-supermarket; diapers; Post officeexpress delivery; e-commerce; digital camera, book store-online reading; bus-car; parking fee; application of smart production line; (cut staff)
• Specialized vocabulary • Signpost language • Formal English
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Complete the following notes.
His experience of starting business
• Started his business in the kitchen; • Employed his wife and kids as staffs; • Developed the whole line of products and
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Lead-in Activity
Lead-in
3 What do you think others study business for?
All business people are profiteers.
4 Do you notice any changes in business field?
1 What is the question mentioned in the Para.1? When faced with both economic problems & competition, what do we do?
2 For whom this question is difficult to answer?
Language points in Text A
adapt
v.习惯于,适应于[+to]; 改写，改编
• The world will be different, and we will have to be prepared to adapt to the change. 世界将会与众不同，我们必须做好准备以适应变化。
• Text A
Your Future in the Changing World of Business
─ Critical thinking and reading
• Theme sentence • Subheadings • Summarize • Discussion
─ Language building-up
5 Employers and capitalistic economic system are more demanding, what skills make you employable?
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Text structure
Identify the structure of Text A by completing the table on Page 7.
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