Unit 6 Contact the World

Teaching procedure

Warm-up questions

1.Do you think a manger in a Chinese company needs to master English?

2. What qualities do you think a successful manager should have?

Check Ss understanding

1. This passage says that it is hard to find global mangers.

2. According to the author, now all the companies in the world are searching for multi-faceted mangers.

3. The companies are short of Euromanagers because the managers don’t like to go to Europe.

4. Jan Prising now lives in the U.S. because he is working for a U.S. company.

Check Ss understanding

5. In the Paris headquaters of Alcatel, many changes have taken place in terms of recruiting mangers.

6. Alcatel’s finance department recruited a lot of managers from abroad.

7. The Swede, Harald Bauer is quite confident of the management in his new position.

8. Previous job experience with other companies is particularly emphasized in today’s recruitment.

Text organization

Practical writing: Itinerary

Practical writing: AgendaItem Description Notes

1. Apology for absence

An apology has been received from Anna. She has been ill for one week

2. Minutes of the meeting held on Jan.10,2002

A copy is enclosed (copied circled).

3. Matters arising from the minutes

a) Minutes 3 should be amended as follows: for “$4000”reads “$400”

b) Minutes 5 Miss Zhang “report on the progress of restructuring the sales team”. She has finished the preliminary report.

4. Winter promotion program

One proposal has been received(enclosed) Free gifts (by Irving)

5. To review last month’s sales records

6. Date of next meeting

10 May, 2008

Useful expressions

1. Allow me, on behalf of the school, to extend our warm welcome to Dr. Zhang.

2. We feel greatly honored to received a visit from a distinguished group of people like you.

3. All of us are deeply impressed by his kindness and patience.

4. It will be very difficult, if not impossible, to replace Professor Stein.

5. We are looking forward to the pleasure of greeting you again on our campus.

Assignments