Sun oa Hobbs and Julia Starr Keddle Oxford English for Careers is a new, up-to-date course where you learn what you need to know for a career in commerce. Learn the English you need to do the job s Practise language in real work situations Learn specialist vocabulary on every page gives you the language, information, and skills you need to start your career: © Its my job~ real people talk about their work in commerce © 9 to 5— expressions for working and socializing with colleagues Business know-how— key interpersonal skills for business ¢ Writing bank — practice in business writing © Facts, figures, and quotations all about commerce ISBN 978 019 456983 5 © Online interactive exercises to revise and recycle language: www.com/elt/oefc And for the teacher: © The Teacher's Resource Book helps you to teach commerce — so you can prepare your students to work in commerce Background introductions give you the specialist knowledge you need to teach the unit with confidence ¢ Handy tips give you easy-to-understand explanations and advice Additional activities and unit-by-unit tests help you provide your students with extra practice and support © Online resources including Listening scripts, Glossary, and further help on how to teach commerce: www.com/elt, Available now: Commerce 1 Class CD ISBN 019 456982 9 Commerce 1 Teacher's Resource Book ISBN 019 456976 4 Your career in commerce starts here ++. With Oxford English for Careers. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS www.comjelt It’s my job/ Business Project Listening Reading Speaking Writing Company profile know-how Language spot Vocabulary Pronunciation 1 The business environment e p4 Amazon.com _ Getting onin Researching Describingdaily — Don'tdisturbme Meetingpeople Emailingafriend PresentSimple business a well-known office routine —|'m not working! Formingjobs Numbers about your job from verbs company Numbers 2 The company e p10 DanielDeroche Howtomanage Researching Describing E-commerce Making and Writing a web your time company's Present Departmentsin Phonenumbers current activities answering page Continuous acompany structure phone calls 3 Travel e p.16 bmi Travelling tips Researching Bad travel Hotel adverts Apologizing Fillinin an online.
g Past Simple Travel anairline experience Bookingahotel booking form 4 Sport e p.22 Ali Prasad Howto Researching Favourite sport Sport—it’s Leavingaphone — Writingajob concentrate Present Perfect Sports sponsorship Describing big business! message application letter qualificationsand experience 5 Sales ep.28 Ox Find your own Researching eBay Sales techniques Makingand USPs Emailing a Present Describing trends going to accepting schedule Continuous for invitations future, be going to Arranginga meeting 6 Cultural awareness @ p.34 Dermot Kincaid Howtomakea Researching Cultural fauxpas Howto talk to Writing a job Talking about must / musn't goodimpression adviceonhow recorded an American description obligation tobehaveina particular country messages Glocalization 7 Trade fairs © p.40 Yo! Attending a Researchingan Discussing Trade fairs and Giving advice Emailinga careers fair entrepreneur should / shouldn't freebies fora exhibitions Lemeat description ofa trade fair 6 trade fair Interviews with trade fair attendees 8 Advertising s p46 Ana Blume Improve your Creating an Radio adverts Advertising Checking Writin a description g Comparatives and creativity advert promoting Emphasising techniques information ofanitemforan superlatives information careers in sport Who's who in online auction advertising i Writing bank © p.52 Emails Making contact Emails 3— Arranging a meeting Emails4— Inviting Emails 5— Answering enquiries Letters 4—Job applications Emails 2—Hotel booking Letters 2 Enquiries Cvs Report Writing bank key p.65 Letters 1-Thanking Letters 3—Following up Faxes Giving directions Emails 6— Complaining 9 Fashion and style e p. How to dress for Presenting your Answering Campershoes Makingrequests Writing and Present Perfect Noun +noun the international company a fashion replying to combinations business world questionnaire invitations People who work in the fashion industry 10 Technology p.72 Gary Wilson Staying up to date Email tips Howthe internet Taking and Making requests The Passive Email addresses works leavingaphone byemail Netiquette— message email manners Bad experiences with technology 11 Job satisfaction e p.78 Lush Are you getting Researching good Talking about The best UK Checking and Writing about the Question tags job satisfaction? employers working conditions companies to reassuring jobyou would like work for 12 Market research © p.84 Matsuko Bea good listener Interviews in Amarket research Making polite First Conditional Describing Intonation Takahashi the street report requests percentages Interview with an Ethnographers~ ethnographer watching people shop 13 Bright idease p.90 AppleComputer Become more Researching Interview about Thebestoffice Agreeingand Writing about Past Continuous Inc, inventive Trivial Pursuit Trevor Baylis inventions disagreeing your hero The business of invention 14 Dealing with people © p.96 Anna Scarpino Dealing with Doanonline Emotional Making and Email Second Conditional Wordfamilies= Dark' your anger test about your Intelligence dealing with complaining about verbs and nouns Emotional complaints an incorrect order Intelligence 15 Getting a job e p.102 \ Key interview Findingasuitable Job interviews How not to impress Talking about plans Filling ina job will/ won't/ Getting, being off, questions jobonline ataninterview! gole.playinga application form may / might and leaving work jobinterview Speaking activities » p108 Grammar reference @ p.131 4 Unit1 1 The business environment Iva chon cty dé gidi thiéu - good working enviroment? examples (companies) Start up 1 Dothe questionnaire. Put a tick () for ‘yes’ or a cross (x) for ‘no’. Vl L6 ULL What kind of person are you? What's the right job for you? Find outwith this questionnaire.
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0 5 2 Compare your answers with your partner. 3 Read the texts below about Chloe and Markus, and EXAMPLE answer the questionnaire for them. Put a question mark (?) when there isn't enough information. What about you? B_ No,Idon’t actually, I like being independent.
Markus Chloe Buyer of luxury leather goods Exhibition organizer | work for a department store. My | really enjoy my job. | love working office is in New York, but I travel a lot. under pressure and | like dealing with | love travelling and | spend a lot of people.
The other thing | reallyenjoyis #ˆ time in Italy and Morocco. | enjoy meeting problem-solving. And when you * ` new people and seeing the newstyles. organize an exhibition, there are always [love the challenge of getting a good lots of problems to sort out! | enjoy Co contract for my company, negotiating a working as a team, but | hate ‘ good deal.| spend a lot of time on my own, dealing with money.
| wasn’t but that’s not a problem as | enjoy being good at maths at school, but independent. In fact, I'm nota great it’s a part of the job, and | have team worker. | don’t really like the to doit. Sometimes | work in routine paperwork when | get the office, but I’m really not back to the office— but it an office sort of person.
needs to be done! 'hate the routine! The business environment 5 „ma -.eannn In this unit @ talking about what you're good at and what you like @ Present Simple @ describing what people do at work @ saying numbers @ introducing people eLanguage spot 3 Nowwrite sentences as in the example. s EXAMPLE Present Simple p Jacob / © travel /® organize information @ We use the Present Simple for facts Jacob likes travelling, but he doesn't enjoy organizing 1enjoy teamwork. Oat Se 1 George/ © workina team /@® do routine activities y P ¬ 2_ Stephanie/ © deal with people /® deal with money. Read about Markus again and underline examples of 3 Lauren /© do research / ® solve problems the Present Simple.
4_ Andy /©use technology / ® be creative 5 Rachel/ 9 We can use certain verbs in the Present Simple dene coorle (Swick rider pressure (e. like / love / enjoy / be good at / don’t mind / hate) with an -ing form. Vocabulary Ilike organizing information. You're good at working ina team.
Form jobs from these words. She doesn’t mind doing routine activities. buy administrate organize operate research Read about Chloe again and find phrases with like / love / tran design control manage enjoy/ hate + -ing. EXAMPLES buyer administrator >> Goto Grammar reference p.116 1 Choose three jobs from A.
Use phrases from B to write Reading five sentences about each job. EXAMPLE 1 Workin groups. Discuss the questions. A bank clerk deals with money and meets people.
5 DO YOU EVER. @ send private emails? bank clerk = computer operator @ text your friends? database administrator personal assistant priatier researcher secretary @ do homework for another lesson? sales representative © gossip? — 8 @ surfthe Net? ask people questions doresearch arrange meetings travel. deal with money organize information ~ meet people make phone calls send emails and letters use a computer attend meetings write reports sell products ecco @ sleep? 2 Inpairs, compare your answers. @ listen to music? EXAMPLE @ look out the: A What does a personal assistant do? B He makes phone calls, arranges meetings, and sends emails and letters.5million Cost to UK companies of staff surfing the Net 2 Read the text and answer the questions.
5 What do some employers do to reduce ‘absenteeism 1 How much time each day do UK office workers inthe office’? spend not working? 6 What do some employers do to make their staff 2 What's their most popular non-work activity? happier at work? 3 How much time each day do they spend using the 3 Workin pairs. Discuss the questions. computer for non-work activities? e Didanything in the article surprise you? 4 What percentage of Italian office workers flirt in e Doyou consider these activities to be ‘time-wasting’? the office? Imagine you are the manager of a company. What would you do about these activities? ee isit ee Pi uot wordy OW do office workers spend their day? | Unsurprisingly, employers are not happy with | Well, they work of course, but they also this ‘absenteeism in the office’.
Many companies use find time for other things. A recent report filters to prevent surfing, and even turn off coffee | reveals that UK office workers spend machines to prevent gossip. In Milan, a worker who about an hour and a half a day on personal business. | regularly surfed unsuitable sites was suspended for They spend 54 minutes gossiping, 16 minutes ten days.
flirting, 14 minutes surfing the Net, 9 minutes | But is the best solution to stop workers socializing emailing friends and family, and 3 minutes | and surfing the Net? After all, you don’t stop thinking shopping online. about work when you go home, and your private life Surfing the Net in office time for personal | doesn’t stop when you go to work. A study of the best reasons is common throughout Europe. Nearly half employers in the UK says that laughing with of workers in Italy, the UK, and Germany confess to colleagues, socializing, and having fun creates a visiting sites for holidays and finance when they workplace where staff work the hardest! One should be working.
In Italy, 4 out of 10 office workers successful company has a room with perfumed oils flirt in the workplace and 1 out of 3 employees sends and music, where staff can relax. Another offers and receives text messages on their mobile during games rooms and satellite TV. It seems that only their working day. | motivated workers give 100% attention to their jobs.
® The business environment 7 Neer ee ee ee dot-com © (adj) relating to business done on the Internet @ (n)acompany which sells products or serviceson the Internet Listening Amazon. @ Listen to Maria, a customer sales assistant, Amazon.com is a website where millions of customers describing how she spends a typical day. Tick the in over 200 countries can buy a wide range of goods activities she mentions. They sell both products and services.