体验商务英语第二册Unit 8 Planning

Do you agree with these statements? Why/why not?
Vocabulary Ways to plan
A Match the verbs in the box to nouns 1 to 5. estimate collect consider estimate 1 __________ costs 2 __________ sales 3 __________ forecast do
4 _________ information 5 __________
options research B Match the verbs to the nouns. a schedule, a plan, a report Write Rearrangea deadline, a schedule, a meeting a deadline Meet Arrange a deadline, a schedule, a meeting Prepare a schedule, a budget, a plan, a report Keep within deadline, a schedule, a budget a Implementa schedule, a budget, a plan, a report
Reading Planning for tourism A Match the words 1 to 10 to their meanings a) to j). a) things such as pots or baskets which are 1 a complex made at home and sold to tourists 2 inflation b) a poor area of a city where the houses are in bad condition 3 devaluation 4 a challenge c) buildings and equipment that are used for a particular purpose 5 slum d) removing sewage and rubbish and 6 handicrafts providing clean water e) the speed at which prices increase 7 facilities f) a goal that is difficult to achieve 8 infrastructure g) a reduction in the value of a country’s 9 sanitation currency 10 a decade h) a group of buildings that are built close together i) a period of 10 years
Reading Planning for tourism
C
Read the first paragraph of the article and check your answers
Reading Planning for tourism Coastline & Rainforest in Brazil
Reading Planning for tourism
Vocabulary Ways to plan E
Choose one of the following events and tell your partner how you will plan it. Try to use some of the vocabulary from the exercises in this part. A training weekend for your department
Listening The secret of good planning
C Listen to the third part of the interview and answer these questions. 1 What is outside our control on a mountain? The weather. 2 What is outside our control in business? Unforeseen changes in the economic climate. 3 When things change it is important to: step back ________. reassess the ____________. situation redefine one’s goal __________. 4 What is the most important thing according to Knowing exactly what it is you want to achieve. Rebecca?
B Listen to the second part and answer the question
1 What did she want to do? To climb the highest mountain on each of the 7 continen 2 Why was time important? The sponsors might want them to climb at 3certain was the key to her planning? What times. Communication with the people she was climbing with.
Listening The secret of good planning
D Tell your partner about something you planned well 1 in business or at work
2 in your life
Then tell each other about something you planned badly.
Rebecca says the secret of good planning is to: 1 know exactly what it is that you want to _________ achieve 2 set adeadline ___________. 3 identify thetasks _________ that are necessary. 4 get on with the tasks to a ___________. timetable
A party to celebrate your company’s 100th anniversary An event to relaunch 百度文库 singer’s career
Listening The secret of good planning
A Listen to the first part of the interview and complete the following sentences.
Vocabulary Ways to plan
C A managing director talks about the planning of a new sales office in the US. Complete the text.
Recently we decided to open a new sales office in New York. First I arranged a _________ with the meeting finance departmentbudget to discuss the project. We information prepared a _______ with details of the various costs involved. Then we collected _____________ about options possible locations for the new office. We considered research report two ________ - one in Greenwich Village and the other near Central Park. After doing some more costs ___________, I wrote a ________ for the board of directors. Unfortunately, we made a mistake when we estimated budget the _______ schedule as the exchange rate changed, and so we didn’t keep within our ________. We overspent by almost 20 percent. We had to rearrange the deadline __________ for moving into the building because the office was not redecorated in time. The board of sales directors was unhappy because we didn’t meet the D Listen & check your answers. ___________ for opening the office by 15 December. It finally opened in January. However, we forecast
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969), 34th President of the United States
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. Video (Italian Job) Dwight D. Eisenhower
Starting up
C Discuss these statements
1 Making lists of things to do is a waste of time.
2 You should plan your retirement from an early age.
3 If you make a plan, you should stick to it.
Starting up
A What do you consider when you are planning these things?
Holiday trip Family celebration
Daily work
Future career
Starting up
Which of the following do you use to plan B your day or week? Which do you prefer? Why?
Reading Planning for tourism Do the following pictures remind you of Brazil? What else could you associate with Brazil?
Carnival & Samba
Soccer
Reading Planning for tourism B Which of the following pictures do you associate with Brazil?