学术英语管理Unit-1

• Common sense • Feng shui (geomancy) of the office/factory/house
Try to establish social network
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His experience of starting business
The social influence of his success
American Dream
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Subheadings
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。 • The film has been adapted from a play of the same title. 电影改编自一部同名戏剧。
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.
Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Text structure
• Text A
Your Future in the Changing World reading
• • • • Theme sentence Subheadings Summarize Discussion
─ Language building-up
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Complete the following tables about the main idea of Joe Dudley in Para.2.
• Started his business in the kitchen; • Employed his wife and kids as staffs; • Developed the whole line of products and opened schools and stores; • Built one of the most successful minority-owned firms; • Won the Horatio Alger Award An ordinary person who had a dream and worked hard to turn his dream into a reality.
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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3 For whom this question might not be that difficult?
People willing to work hard, continue to learn and adapt to change.
Language points in Text A
adapt
Try to establish social network
• • • • • • • • • • • 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
To be a successful employee (infinitive phrase) To start your own business (infinitive phrase)
To become a better informed consumer and investor (infinitive phrase)
学术英语 管理
Academic English for Business
Unit 1 Studying Business
Unit Contents
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Lead-in Text A Text B Researching Listening Speaking Writing
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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)
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
• 6 What are the skills that you can learn from university courses? • What are the skills that you need to learn outside the university?
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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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Lead-in
Lead-in Activity
3 What do you think others study business for? All business people are profiteers. 4 Do you notice any changes in business field? 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) 5 Employers and capitalistic economic system are more demanding, what skills make you employable?
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?) 2.Can you list some example for omnipresent business in our life?
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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)
Fast Reading
• Let‘s do skimming and scanning, read Text A quickly and write down the theme sentence.
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
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Lead-in
Lead-in Activity Exchange Time
In a group
Go around in turns Take notes as you listen Summarize your discussions
• Specialized vocabulary • Signpost language • Formal English
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Text A
Critical reading and thinking
Complete the following notes.
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. • 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.
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? College students taking courses or employees starting a career.