Unit 8 - Business Partner

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Unit 8 - Business Partner

Lesson 1

This year

- Sit your 4 general English exams

Reading and Listening (CE Engels)

Speaking (monologue)

Speaking (conversation)

Writing

The exams

One final grade

CE Engels (R&L) - 50%

Speaking (m) - 16%

Speaking (c) - 16%

Writing - 16%

Period 4

- unit 8 in Business Partner

- Final test

Text messaging is

convenient

a time-waster

an annoying interruption

something I never use

I receive … emails.

way too many

a manageable number of

very few

no

My phone is

one of my most important possessions.

useful, but I don't use it very often.

an annoying interruption.

something I almost never use.

VIDEO

You are going to watch a programme about how a company improved communication in the office. Answer the questions.

- What types of communication do you think people in an office use frequently?

- What kinds of problems with communication in an office do you think people might have?

Video - exercise 3

1    the type of communication that is causing problems

2    what employees were not allowed to do
     3    the type of communication employees must use in the office
   4    the employees' feelings about the changes    
5    the two things Cary Cooper wants employees to balance
     6         the atmosphere in the office after the experiment

Watch the video again and decide if these sentences are true or false. Correct the incorrect sentences.Watch the video again and decide if these sentences are true or false. Correct the incorrect sentences.

Watch the video again and decide if these sentences are true or false. Correct the incorrect sentences.

 

1  Mike Brogan feels that it's important for his employees to work after hours.    

2 One employee says he checks his email on holiday and at the weekends.     

3 Cary Cooper doesn't want the employees to use email at all – even with customers or people outside of the office.

4 Cooper says there is no connection between what happens at
work and what happens at home.

5 Most of the employees couldn’t stop working after hours.

6 One result of the experiment was that the workers got to know
their colleagues better.

7   The experiment was a success.

Wrap up

Would you be happy to stop using communication technology for a day? A week? A month? Why / Why not?

How would it change your life if you couldn't use communication technology? What would become more difficult? Would anything become easier?