ANGELA AHRENDTS
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Age
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50
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Job
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Burberry
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Nationality
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Indiana
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Family
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Is important
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Interests outside work
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To eat a takeaway pizza,
with her children or play basketball with them
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B. Decide whether these
statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.
1.
Burberry is an American company.
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(F). It’s a British company.
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2. Burberry is a global
fashion company.
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(V) the 2.2 billian fashion company
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3. All Anrendts’s children
are teenagers.
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(V) They have a son 15 and two daugthers (14 and 11)
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4. They are at school in
America.
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(F) The are at an american
international school in London
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5. Most mornings, Ahrendts
is up before 5 a.m.
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(V) she usually get up
aroun 4:30
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6. She is away on business
most weeks.
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(F) She travels on
business one week a month
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7. She has a lot of
interests outside work.
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(F) she don’t have time
for other things
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8. For Ahrendts, keeping in
contact with relatives is important.
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(V) it’s very important.
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2.1.2
Open
your Market Leader book on page 16, read articleBusiness
diary: Eugene Kaspersky, and develop exercises A to E. Send these exercises
in the Word file corresponding to Study Guide 1. DO NOT take photos of the
pages and paste them on the Word file; you have to type these exercises
(including the instructions).
A. Before you read the
article, discuss these questions.
1.
What do you think is a typical day in the life of the CEO of a big
company?
We think it should be very
busy, full of many meetings and attending multi requirements of all departments
2. How much time do CEOs
spend travelling
We consider must be the
majority of the time, obviously if the company does has a lot offices in
different cities or countries.
3. Do CEOs need holidays.
of course the ceos need days
off & share special days with her family for that this helps that will
reduce stress levels faced day by day.
B. Look through this article.
Can you find any of the ideas you discussed in Exercise A?
Probably we have the image
from the ceos are more rigid and formal, plus they are very distant with
regular workers, but in the case of the CEOs that shows us on article is a
person very warm and very human.
C. Answer these questions.
1.
Is Kaspersky a formal or informal CEO?
He is a
informal CEO
2. Is most of his business in
Russia or in orther countries?
The company is
Based in Moscow and has offices in 29 countries. The CEO spends 50 % of his
time in Moscow, But the other 50% his travels.
3. Does he work 24/7 (24
hours a day, seven days a week)?
No, he don’t
work 24/7. Although that sometimes during business trips he sleeps little, but
in his normal routine in the Moscow office he goes to gym with her personal
trainer, to relax.
D. Decide whether these
statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.
1.
Kaspersky travels a lot. (T)
2.
He wears formal business clothes in the office. (F
3.
He gets up early every day. (F)
4.
He goes to the gym after work. (T)
5.
He likes to have time to relax when he’s in Moscow. (T)
6.
He only has holidays in summer. (F)
A. In each box, match the words
that go together.
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2.1.3 Develop exercises A to E
on page 24 of your Market Leader book.
A.
Which of these adjectives describe work
in a call centre?
A. Three call-centre workers
answer the question ‘What are the biggest problems for you at work?’. Read
their replies.
B. Look at the chart and tick
the problems the call-centre workers talk about in the replies. Who talks about
each problem? Write Birgit (B), Vijay (V) or Kevin (K).
PROBLEMS
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NAME
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Long working day
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V
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Breaks too short
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K
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Long hours at Workstation
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B
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Boring work
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K
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No promotion
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K
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Angry customers
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V
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Low pay
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K
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No time between calls
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K
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High staff turnover
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K
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A lot of noise
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B
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D. Which three physical
problems are mentioned in Birgit’s reply?
Get headaches
Hearing Problems
Backache
E. Underline the adjectives
from Exercise A in the replies.
Badly Paid
Boring
Noisy
Stressfull
Well paid
2.2 Listening
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2.2.1 Go over Learning
Object 2 to get familiar with
common structures of the simple present tense and then be able to talk about a
common business daily routine. Now
you can try a similar dialogue with a classmate.
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2.2.2 Open your Market Leader book on page 8 and develop exercises A to B
on listening. 2.2.3 Go to page 18 of your Market
Leader book and
develop exercises A to E on listening.
A. CD1.8 Jeremy Keeley is a
consultant. Listen to him introducing himself in the first part of the
interview and decide whether these statement are true (T) or False (F). Correct
the false ones.
1.
He lives in London. (F) he’s live in a small a
city in england near London Called st albans.
2.
He has three very Young children. (F) He has
three teenage children
3.
He runs his own business (V)
4.
His business Works for organisations across the USA and Asia. (F) He has work for organisations across the UK and in Europe
5.
He helps leaders become better leaders. (V)
6.
He always shakes hands when he meets peaple. (V)
B. CD1.9 Listen to the second
part. Complete what Jeremy says about meeting new business contacts and
exchanging business cards.
I usually say, Hello, How 1 are you?, Where .2 do you come from?, What 3 do you do?, I usually
find out What’s 4 ‘s important to them, Why ….5 they’re there. I
usually wait until they’ve asked me a question before I talk too much about myself.
I usually…Wait..6 until the person i’m
meeting offers..7 me a business card before I offer them
mine, so we’ll…exchange…. them at that point.
A.
CD1.22 Listen to the first part of an interview with ros pomeroy.
What does she like most about her job?
She likes
work is that there is no such thing as tipycal day, she has work for
differents clients on differents projects and she has to be ready for any
client request she's can work in the
office, in the computer or in the phone.
B.
CD1.22 Listen again and complete these notes.
Ros can be:
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In Work…1
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…I can be running..2 a workshop or a …discussion..3
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In her own…office….4 in front of a …Computer…5 screen
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On the …Phone…6
C.
CD1.23 Listen to the second part of the interview and answer these
questions.
1.
What two things sometimes make it difficult to find enough time
for leisure?
She works very
long hours and 2 she have children teenage.
2.
Overall, does Ros have enough time for leisure?
Yes, she have
enough time for leisure
D.
In pairs, predict what Ros likes doing to relax.
She read to
newspaper the weekends and she likes to get outside a running and breathe fresh
air.
E.
CD1.24 Listen to the final part and check your answers
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2.2.4 Develop exercises A to C
on page 23 of your Market Leader book.
A.
CD1.34 Jeremy Keeley, a specialist in change leadership, talks
about problems he has at work. Listen to the first part of the interview and
decide whether these statements are true (T) or False (F). correct the false
ones.
1.
Jeremy often Works with a large number of people. (F) he's running her own
business and working on their own.
2.
His clients have quite complicated problems. (V)
3.
Jeremy’s biggest problema is having enough time to do a good job. (V)
4.
He also faces urgent requests for help when he is already very
busy. (V)
B.
CD1.35 Listen to the second part, in which Jeremy talks about the
biggest problems in companies, and complete these notes.
1.
Biggest problem – amount of…change….1 they have to go
through at speed.
2.
Second problem – difficult to plan their needs and resources
(staff…the equipment…2,…the property
the ….3, money they need to
satisfy their customers).
3.
Another problem – customers expect them to reduce……their prices…4 at the same time as companies have increasing.
C.
CD1.36 Listen to the third part of the interview and answer these
questions.
1.
What sorts of problem is Jeremy asked to salve?
Probably
biggest problem they face is the amount
of change they have to go through all
the time and they have to go through that change fast at speed
2.
What was the problem Jeremy had to solve?
Recently there
was a computer system that had to be introduced that affected millions of
customers and their bills.
3.
Which different groups did he bring together to salve the
problema?
He brought the
technical team, the business team, the project team and the suppliers together.
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2.2.5 Check your answers by
reading the audio scripts on pages 158, 159 and 160.
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2.2.6 Open this video http://goo.gl/Tk5SmN and answer the questions as follows in the Word file to be
delivered:
