NGÂN HÀNG NHÀ NƯỚC VIỆT NAM TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC NGÂN HÀNG TP.HCM SÁCH THAM KHẢO TÀI LIỆU BỔ TRỢ MÔN HỌC TIẾNG ANH – ĐỌC NÂNG CAO Chủ biên: ThS. PHẠM LÊ SÙNG CHÍNH Thành viên: ThS. Phan Anh ThS. Hoàng Anh Thư ThS.
Võ Thanh Tuấn Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh – Năm 2024 THE STATE BANK OF VIETNAM HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF BANKING FOR REFERENCE READING PLUS - Advanced Chief author: PHẠM LÊ SÙNG CHÍNH, M.A Members: Phan Anh, M. Hoàng Anh Thư, M. Ho Chi Minh City – 2024 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the following for their precious contribution to the body of professional knowledge and English study, without the citation, quotation, and adaptation of which the workbook cannot have been compiled: Accounting Simplified; Achilles; Ali, A.; Allen & Overy; Allsop, J.; Bank of England; Beers, B.; Cambridge Online Dictionary; Cengage Learning; Charnovitz, S.; Chron; Collins Online Dictionary; Connecticut Law Review; The Conversation; CUP; Curwen, L.com; Divestopedia; Dubicka, I.; EUI Working Paper RSCAS; Fazal, H.; Financial Times; TheFreeDictionary.; The Guardian; Haines, S.; InfoScipedia; Investopedia; Jones, A.; Johnson & Johnson Services; Kagan, J.; KPMG; Littler; Longman Online Dictionary of Contemporary English; Macmillan; Macmillan Online Dictionary; Mascull, B.; Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary; Mindmesh; Moran, R.; Oxford Online Learner’s Dictionaries; Parker, T.; Pearson Longman; PK A/C; Pilbeam, A.; Projections; ReasearchGate; Samovar, L.; Swoop Funding; Trappe, T. Department of Labor Website; The United States Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division et al.; University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations; University of Michigan and NBER; Wikipedia; Witzel, B.
ii [This page intentionally left blank] iii ABBREVIATIONS (adj.) adverb [C] countable noun CD Cambridge Dictionary CED Collins Online English Dictionary cf. See DC DICTIONARY.COM E entertain I inform (idm.) idiom IOD Investopedia l. line LDCE Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Dictionary Online MD Macmillan Dictionary MW Merriam-Webster Dictionary OLD Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries p. page P persuade para.
pages RS Reading Skill [S] singular sb. something iv [U] uncountable noun (vi.) intransitive verb (vl.) linking verb (vt.) transitive verb WOD World of Dictionary v INTRODUCTION The workbook is designed to accompany Nigel A. Caplan and Scott Roy Douglas’s Q Skills for Success 5 – Reading and Writing 3rd ed. The workbook which is composed of various basic vocabulary and reading exercises with a focus on Business English serves the purpose not only to consolidate the reading skills tailored in Nigel A.
Caplan and Scott Roy Douglas’s course book but also to facilitate these EFL students’ needs to introduce themselves to the world of business. Moreover, to express a support to the HUB’s objective (to foster students’ active and positive academic role), the workbook serves to provide the EFL students an opportunity to improve their reading skills through continual practice and self-study. The workbook is divided into 6 modules with respective topics as follows: 1. Culture and Business 2.
Strategy and Consultancy 3. Finance, Tax, and Auditing 4. Ethics in Business 5. Business and the Environment 6.
Law in Business Each module comprises five parts with several reading ranging from simple question types to difficult ones such as blank-filling reading texts, reading texts with True/False statements, reading texts with multiple-choice questions, reading texts with short/full answers, etc. so that ESL students can improve their reading skills through their incessant practice. Longer texts (in parts 3-5) are supplemented with vocabulary exercises in order to motivate learners to stay active during the learning of vocabulary and through their incessant practice. Vocabulary annotations – most of which are excerpted from authoritative famous dictionaries with accurate IPA transcription, simple definition/explanation, and meticulous notes of language usage, etc.
- are complemented after a majority of reading texts to facilitate students’ reading comprehension. They are especially of importance when some reading texts at the highest level of difficulty in comparison to the other three previous workbooks of the series are fully authentic with no adaptation for ESL students. To the Teacher: The content-based reading workbook is designed to assist students in developing all the 8 Reading Skills (RS) that the two authors Nigel A. Caplan and Scott Roy Douglas vi highlighted in Q Skills for Success 5 – Reading and Writing 3rd ed.
(Oxford, 2020), namely as follows: 1. Distinguishing main ideas from details (unit 1), 2. Identifying contrasting ideas (unit 2), 3. Anticipating content through questions (unit 6), 7.
Identifying the author's intent (unit 7), 8. Organizing notes and annotations in a chart (unit 8). However, the teacher should encourage students to improve and exploit other skills (in reading comprehension) which are classified in this workbook as: 9. These reading skills are respectively abbreviated as RS 1-9, and they are listed after the direction of each reading exercise as a suggestion so that the teacher may offer appropriate guidance to help their students both directly and indirectly use some or all of them to do the reading exercise better, faster, more actively, and more comfortably.
The teacher should, in addition, support their students to apply other reading skills than the one that are mentioned at the beginning of each reading exercise. The teacher may assist their students in using the reading skills (RS) indirectly to do parts 1, 2 (i. the capitalization of a word or punctuation may also be a clue to help the student complete the reading task, an item of new vocabulary annotation is another hint, etc. Part 3 of Modules 1-3, and Part 4 of Modules 4-6 may help students deal indirectly with the reading skills (RS), while the rest may do both directly and indirectly.
However, the advice is tentative; students’ active creative role in their study should be nurtured. Each module of the workbook, which covers 8 out of the 9 reading skills mentioned above, may be used separately in the class or assigned to students as homework according to the teacher’s approach and students’ competence. Save all the best for our students. vii To the Student: The workbook aims to cover several common question types found in standardised reading tests while it suggests which reading skills (RS) may be applicable in each exercise.
The student is at first advised to do the exercise without any pause until the end of the task. After that, when faced with a difficult question or with some doubt about the answer, they should refer to the reading skills (RS) suggested at the beginning of each reading exercise to help them find out or confirm the answer. These reading skills (RS) can also be reviewed thoroughly after the exercise has been done as a post-reading activity to help the student develop the skills and do reading comprehension actively. The reading passages of Parts 3-5 tend to be longer and to include more technical terms, especially the one in Part 5, to familiarize the student themselves with more challenging reading texts of higher levels.
Don’t panic and be demotivated. Overcome the difficulties and take the opportunity not only to refine your skill of guessing meaning from its context but also to manage uncertainty, especially in international tests to be faced with in the future. Where there's a will there's a way. viii [This page intentionally left blank] ix CONTENTS Section A: TOPICS 1 Module 1: CULTURE and BUSINESS 3 Module 2: STRATEGY and CONSULTANCY 17 Module 3: FINANCE, TAX, and AUDITING 31 Module 4: ETHICS in BUSINESS 45 Module 5: BUSINESS and the ENVIRONMENT 63 Module 6: LAW in BUSINESS 81 Section B: SUGGESTED ANSWERS 101 Suggested Answers – Module 1 103 Suggested Answers – Module 2 111 Suggested Answers – Module 3 117 Suggested Answers – Module 4 127 Suggested Answers – Module 5 135 Suggested Answers – Module 6 143 NOTES 153 INDEX 177 REFERENCES 183 x [This page intentionally left blank] 1 SECTION A: TOPICS 2 [This page intentionally left blank] 3 MODULE 1: CULTURE and BUSINESS 1.
Part 1: Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals next to the gap to form a word that fits the gap. (RS:1, 3, 5, 9) Companies moving into international markets will usually first feel the effects of culture on their marketing and advertising. Every (1)_____ (INTERNATIONALLY) marketer has their collection of mistakes, where the values of one (2)_____ (CULTURAL) fail to translate into another.
Sales of the Vauxhall Nova in Hispanic-speaking (3)_____ (COUNTRY), for example, suffered because in Spanish no va (4)_____ (MEANINGFULLY) ‘won't go’. Other failures are more complex and (5)_____ (BASICALLY) on deeper cultural divides. Toyota's luxury car, the Lexus, (6)_____ (BEEN) an immediate hit in the US, where the luxury-car (7)_____ (MARKETING) had been the preserve of a few (8)_____ (DOMESTICALLY) companies, and the Lexus offered something appreciably different. The Lexus has been much less (9)_____ (SUCCEED) in Europe, where there is a stronger tradition of (10)_____ (LUXURIOUSLY) car-making and strong loyalty to local brands on the part of their buyers.
Part 2: Read the text below. In each of most of the sentences, there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the meaning of the text. Some sentences, however, are correct.
If a sentence is correct, write CORRECT. If there is an extra word in the sentence, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS. (RS:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9) EYE CONTACT (1)In many Western cultures, a person who does not maintain good eye contact is regarded as the slightly suspect. (2)Those who avoid eye contact from are unconsciously 4 considered unfriendly, insecure, untrustworthy, inattentive, and impersonal.
(3)In contrast, Japanese lower their eyes when they speaking to a superior, a gesture of respect. (4)In Latin American cultures and some African cultures, prolonged eye contact from an individual of lower status is considered disrespectful gesture. (5)In the United States, it is considered rude to stare - regardless of who is looking at whom. (6)The polite English person is taught to blink his or her eyes to let the speaker to know he or she has been understood as well as heard.
(7)Americans signal interest and comprehension by bobbing their heads or else grunting. (8)A widening of the eyes can also be interpreted differently. negotiator may be interpret a Chinese person’s widened eyes as an expression of astonishment instead of its true meaning of politely suppressed Asian anger. Vocabulary: Read the text below and choose the best definition/explanation (A, B, C, or D) in English that matches up the word/expression in each of the following sentences.
I really didn't mean to give any offence to your brother - I was just stating my opinion. an illegal act B. upset and hurt or annoyed behaviours, often because someone has been rude or shown no respect D. upset and hurt or annoyed feelings, often because someone has been rude or shown no respect 2.
His casual behaviour was wholly inappropriate for such a formal occasion. informal but suitable for special occasions B. not formal or not suitable for special occasions C. not serious or considered, or done by chance D.
not intended or planned 3. It's difficult to interpret these statistics without knowing how they were obtained. to change what someone is saying into another language 5 B. to decide what the unintended meaning of something is C.
to decide what the intended meaning of something is D. to express your own ideas about the intended meaning of a play or a piece of music when performing it 4. The prime minister is to meet his European counterpart to discuss the war against drugs. one having the same function or characteristics as another B.
something that completes C. one remarkably similar to another D. You have to wait for the host to let you join the meeting. a person who introduces guests and performers B.
someone who sets up a meeting C. a guest for a special event 3. Reading: Read the text below. Choose the best phrase from the following ones to fill each of the gaps.
In Rio, on the other hand, B. So, before opening your mouth in this country, C.