sábado, 26 de abril de 2014

ACTIVITY TWO GRAMMAR

1.2 Grammar

1.2.1 Develop the activities proposed in Tell me more for this section. Go to http://www.tellmemorecampus.com/ 



1.2.2 Open your Market Leader book on pages 10 and 11: Develop exercises A to F of Language Focus 1, and A to C of Language Focus 2.

A. Complete this information about Maristella with short forms of the verb to be.

My name’s…IS.1 Maristella. I’M….2 Brazilian and I’M….3 from Sao Paulo. I’M….4 a research analyst for an investment bank in Nex York. I’M….. 5married with two children, a boy and a girl. They’RE….6 at high school in Scarsdale. My husband’S….7 American and he’S …..8 a doctor. My sister’S…..9 in New York, too. She’S…..10 a student at Columbia University. We’RE…..11 all interested in sports and movies. My son’S…..12 a good tenis player.

B.   CD1.10 Listen and check your answers.


C.   Complete this chart about yourself. Then introduce yourself to a partner.

1.    Name……………Yovany
2.    Job    I’m a(n)……Coordinator
3.    City    I’m from …Bogotá
4.    Nationality    ………Colombian
5.    Interests       ……Listen music
6.    Favourite sports   …Soccer

D.   Now write a paragraph about your partner. Use the text in Exercise A as a model

My partner’s name is Gehovell

My partner’s job is coordinator

My partner’s city is from Bogota

My Partner’s nationality is Colombian

My Partner’s interest is to read


My Partner’s favorite sports is swimming

A.   Complete these sentences with negative forms of to be

1.    She’s Russian, but she isn’t from Moscow.

2.    They’re Japanese, but they aren’t from Tokyo.

3.    He’s German, but he isn’t from Munich.

4.    I’m in sales, but i am not the manager

5.    The office is in Paris, but the office isn’t in the centre

Her name is Sophia, but She isn’t Italian


F.   Match the questions and answers about Sergio.



1.2.3 Now go over exercises A to B on page 17 of your Market Leader book about present simple.

Language Focus 1

A.   Darren Throop Works for Entertaiment one, a media company in Toronto, Canada. Complete the article below about his working day using the verbs from the box.


Darren Throop Gets up at 6 a.m. and does Some exercise in the gym in his house. At about 6.30, he Market breakfast for his two daughters. The he Checks his e-mails in his home office. He Driver to work. At lunch time, he has A salad at his desk. At work, he spends a lot of time in meetings and on conference calls. He Finishes his office day at about 5 p.m. He travels on business a lot, so he likes to spend all his free time with his family.

A.   Complete this information about Masami Kimura. Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

I’m Masami Kimura and i’m married with two children, Aiko an Katsuki. They go (go) to an international school. My husband’s name is Seito. He…works (work) for a shipping company, and I work (work) for an international securities company.
We live (live) in Tokyo, near Shinjuku. I travel (travel) to work by subway, but Seito driver (drive) to work. We bot like………. (like) sports and travelling. At the weekend, we…play (play) golf or we…go…… (go) camping.

A. Write the words in brackets in the correct place in these sentences.

1. She usually gets up early (usually)

2. They always start their first meeting at nine o’clock. (always)

3. We are never late for meetings. (never)

4. I am  often in the afternoon. (often)

5. The office sometimes closes at 3 p.m. (sometimes)

B. Read these pairs of sentences. Cross out the incorrect Word in sentence b) of each pair.
1. 
a) He reads the papers every day.
b) He alway/semetimes reads the papers
2.
a) We eat in the company cafetería four times a week
b) We usually/sometimes eat in the company cafetería.
3.
a) I work late once a month
b) I usually/sometimes work late.
4.
a) The managers don’t go to business dinners at the weekend
b) The managers never/ sometimes go to business twice a week
5.
a) the company Director travels on business twice a week
b) The company Director alway/often travels on business


A.   CD1.25-1.27 An interviewer asks three peaple about their typical day. Listen and complete this table.


MARK
ISABELLE
DAN
What do you do when you get to work?
Say hello to colleagues, check e-mail
Always check emails and the diary
Check my blackberry and reply important emails
Where do you have lunch?
Sometimes go home for lunch
Sandwich in the desk
Usually have lunch in the company restaurant
How often do you travel on business?
Always travel fashion show parís an new york
Never travel
South africa three time in year and europe  one time for week
What do you do at the weekend?
On Saturday night goint to clubbing
On Saturday evening dinner and sometimes go to the cinema
Listen to music and some the morning play golf


A.   Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in Exercise C.

1. What do you do when you get to work?
    I always check my agenda and e mail.

2. Where do you have lunch?
    I usually lunch in the company’s restaurant.

3. How often do you travel on business?
    I never travel.

4. What do you do at the weekend?
    I study and rest with my wife, we sleep, we see movies and we go to mall.


A.   Work in pairs. Ask and answer these questions. Add your own questions.

How often do you…
1.    Play sports?
1.    Entertain at home
2.    Use a mobile pone?
2.    Go on business trips?
3.    Drive to work/college/university?
3.    Go abroad on holiday
4.    Go to gym/ fitness centre?
4.    Buy a newspaper/ magazine

1. How often do you play sports?
    Sometimes at the weekend.

2. How often do you use a mobile phone?
    I always use my phone.

3. How often do you drive to work?
    I always drive to work.

4. How often do you go to a gym?
    I usually go to a gym in the mornings.

5. How often do you entertain at home?
    Sometimes at the weekend.

6. How often do you go on business trips?
    Never i go on business trip

7. How often do you go abroad on holiday?
    Usually i like go abroad on holiday

8. How often do you buy a newspaper or magazine?
    I never buy a newspaper or magazine

1.2.5 Complete exercises A to E on page 25 and A to B on page 26 of your Market Leader book.

A. Work in pairs. Match the questions (1-6) to the answers (a-f).


B. Put these words in the correct order to make questions.

Weekend / work / they / do / at / the / ?
Do they work at the weekend?
Pierre / in / sales / Does / work / ?
Does Pierre sales in work ?
You / do / travel / abroad / How / often / ?
How often do you travel abroad ?
You / spell / How / business / do / ?
How do you spell business?
Finish / does / the / meeting / When / ?
When does the meeting finish?

C. Ask and answer these questions

Student A: Turn to page 132
Student B: Turn to page 144
What time/ start work?
What time do you start work?
When / finish work?
When do you finishwork?
When / finish work?
Where do you report to ?
Who/ report to?
Who do you report to  ?
How often/ work at the weekend?
How often do you work at the weekend?

Student A                                                          Student B

1. I start work at 7:30 a.m.                                  I start work at 9:30 a.m.

2. I finish work at 4:30 a.m.                                 I finish work at 7:00 p.m.

3. I work in Frankfurt.                                           I work in London.

4. I report to the financial director.                     I report to the customer care manager.

5. I never work at the weekend.                         I work on Saturdays morning

A.   Make negative sentences. Use don’t (do not) or doesn’t (does not).

1.    I like meetings. (presentations)
I like meetings, but I don’t like presentations

2.    We waste a lot of paper. (electricity)
We  waste a lot of paper, but we don’t waster electricity

3.    They agree about most things. (money)
They agree about most things, but they don’t agree about money

4.    Susan sends a lot of e-mails. (faxes)
Susan sends a lot of e-mails, but susan doesn’t sends faxes

5.    Our management team discusses business strategy. (employee problems)
Our management team discusses business strategy, but don’t discusses employee problems.

A.   Tick the sentences that are true for you. Chance the other ones to make them true. Then compare and discuss your sentences in pairs.

1.    I agree with my manager about everything.
2.    I don’t work in teams very often.
3.    I always come to work / college on time.
4.    I don’t like giving presentations
5.    I never take work home in the evening or at the weekeng

A.   Make sentences about what Marco has and doesn’t have.
1.    Marco has a company car. He doesn’t have a sat-nav.

1.    A company car  Bien                                                  a sat-nav       Mal
2.    An IPone                        Mal                                                    an IPand       Bien
3.    An interesting job   Bien                                             a high salary            Mal
4.    A nice boss        Mal                                         some great colleagues Bien
5.    A desktop computer at work   Mal                             a laptop         Bien

A.   Complete these questions with does have an do have.

A.   Complete these questions with does have an do have.

1.    Do you have a new mobile pone?
2.    What kind of car Does She Have?
3.    Do the company Have a restaurant?
4.    Do  all the romos Have Air conditioning?
5.    Do I Have time to finish this?


2.1 Reading
·         2.1.1 Read article From small town to global leader on page 9 of your Market Leader book and develop exercises A to B.

A.   Read this article. Then complete the chart below.
                    ANGELA AHRENDTS

                                    Age
                                      50
                                   Job
                                Burberry
                             Nationality
                                Indiana
                              Family
                             Is important
                   Interests outside work
         To eat a takeaway pizza, with her children or play basketball with them

B.   Decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones.
1.    Burberry is an American company.
             (F). It’s a British company.
2.    Burberry is a global fashion company.
          (V) the 2.2 billian fashion company
3.    All Anrendts’s children are teenagers.
       (V) They have a son 15 and two daugthers (14 and 11)
4.    They are at school in America.
     (F) The are at an american international school in London
5.    Most mornings, Ahrendts is up before 5 a.m.
       (V) she usually get up aroun 4:30
6.    She is away on business most weeks.
       (F) She travels on business one week a month
7.    She has a lot of interests outside work.
       (F) she don’t have time for other things
8.    For Ahrendts, keeping in contact with relatives is important.
         (V) it’s very important.

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.

·         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

NAME
       Long working day

V
      Breaks too short

K
      Long hours at Workstation

B
      Boring work

K
      No promotion

K
     Angry customers

V
     Low pay

K
     No time between calls

K
     High staff turnover

K
     A lot of noise

B

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
·         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.
·         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:
·         In Work…1
·         I can be running..2 a workshop or a …discussion..3
·         In her own…office….4 in front of a …Computer…5 screen
·         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
·         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.
·         2.2.5 Check your answers by reading the audio scripts on pages 158, 159 and 160.


·         2.2.6 Open this video http://goo.gl/Tk5SmN and answer the questions as follows in the Word file to be delivered:
·         2.2.6 Open this video http://goo.gl/Tk5SmN and answer the questions as follows in the Word file to be delivered:


Write at least three different greetings Anna uses to say hello to her friends.

Good morning, how are you?
Hi dev are you doing?
Good morning everybody

Where is Mr. Cho from?
He's from taipei

What is Mr. Méndez profession?
He’s the programmer.

Why is the Japanese girl travelling?
She travels for his studies

What time does the class suppose to start?
Class to starts eight o’clock

Who is the first person the Japanese girl talks to when she gets inside the room?
He’s the instructor of the class

Why is the brown-skin woman mad at Sam?
She has mad because sam is clutter


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