He phones his colleague, Thomas Hart.

 

1 Where was Thomas yesterday evening?

_______________________________________________________________________

2 Where was his wife Angela?

_______________________________________________________________________

3 Where were their children?

_______________________________________________________________________

5 Read and listen to the conversation again. Check your answers.

A:	Thomas Hart.
B:	Hi, Thomas. This is Martin.
A:	Martin! Welcome back. How was your course?
B:	Really good. I called yesterday evening, but there was no answer. Were you all out?
A:	Actually, yes. I was in a restaurant with a client. I wasn’t home until midnight.
B:	Was Angela with you?
A:	No, she was at a friend’s house, I think. The children were at the cinema with friends.
B:	Right. Well, are you free now? Can I come and see you?
A:	Yes, of course.

6 Dramatise the conversation with your partner.

 

7 Listen to the questions and answers. If the answer is positive, put a tick (√) in the space provided.

If it is negative, put a cross(×). (BB, T.30, 01’16-02’30)

Situation: Martin Kellerman is talking about his management course at the University of Buenos Aires.

Listen to the example.

Did you enjoy the course?

√Yes, I did. It was really interesting.

1) Did you improve your English?

____________________________________________________________________

2) Did you attend any Spanish classes?

____________________________________________________________________

3) Did you do any sport?

____________________________________________________________________

4) Did you live on the university campus?

____________________________________________________________________

5) Did you like the city?

____________________________________________________________________

6) Did you pass all your exams?

____________________________________________________________________

 

8 Listen again and check your answers. Write down the full answers in the space provided under the questions. Practise the questions and the answers in pairs.

9 Put the conversation in the right order.

Situation. Yuji Ishiguro visits Paco Reverte in Madrid. Paco meets him at his hotel.

 

a) Yes, that’s right. You must be Paco Reverte. Thanks for coming. ……………………

b) By car. I parked just outside the hotel. This way. ……………………..

c) Yes, it is. ………………..

d) Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Did you sleep well? ……………….

e) About midnight. My plane was late. ………………………….

f) Yes, thanks, I did. What time is our meeting? ………………………

g) That would be nice. Do we get to the centre by car or on foot? …………………..

h) What time did you arrive? ………………….

i) Excuse me. Are you Yuji Ishiguro? … 1 ……………

j) At 10.00. Shall we go? We can have a coffee in the city centre. …………………..

k) No problem. Is this your first visit here? ………………….

 

10 Listen to the dialogue and check your answers. Practise the dialogue in pairs.

(BB, T.31, 02’30-03’17)

GRAMMAR FOCUS 1 – PAST SIMPLE TENSE

i The Past Simple is used to talk about a finished action in the past. We usually know when the action / event happened or didn’t happen.

e.g. I was at the meeting last week.

I received your message yesterday.

You didn’t send me the document.

 

Affirmative (+)	Negative (-)	Question (?)
I You He She We They	worked.	I You He She We They	didn’t work.	Did	I You He She We They	work?

 

ii Spelling

• Most regular verbs: verb + -ed

start – start ed

• Verbs ending in –e: verb + -d

decide – decid ed

• Verbs ending in consonant-vowel-consonant: double the last

stop – stop ped

• Verbs ending in consonant + -y: replace –y with –ied

try – tr ied

iii Past Simple irregular verbs

Many of the most common verbs in English are irregular. Some of the irregular verbs from this module are given below. For a full list, see the table of irregular verbs.

buy	bought	leave	left
fly	flew	meet	met
go	went	take	took
have	had	write	wrote

ASSIGNMETNTS

A Fill in the gaps using the verbs below in the correct form.

get	leave	see	have	be
visit	arrive	make	meet	go
travel	attend	go	return

Mike Hodgkinson is the Chief Executive of British Airports Authority. This is his diary for last week.

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
I ………...……1 up early and ……………..2 at the office at 8.00 a.m. At 9.00 I ……………..3 a meeting with Gabriele Renzully, the Director of Naples Airport. After a nice lunch I ……….4 to the bank to discuss future investments. At 5.00 p.m. I ………..….5 the office and …….…..6 to the Millennium Dome by boat. I ……..……7 delegates for the ACI conference. In the evening there.………..8 a conference dinner at the Dorchester Hotel.	I …………..9 the opening speech for the ACI conference and then …………….10 different talks and seminars during the day. I ……………11 lots of old contacts.	A normal morning at the office. I had lunch with a journalist who wanted to hear about our future plans. In the afternoon I attended a board meeting and made a presentation on our future strategy. In the evening my wife and I …………….12 our son and daughter –in–law for dinner.	Trip to Stansted Airport. I met a lot of staff and customers. I …………13 to London in the evening and …………14 to the opera to see La Bohéme.

B Change the order of these words to make questions, as in the example. Then answer the questions.

1) morning who he Monday on he meet?

e.g. Who did he meet on Monday morning? He met Gabriele Renzully.

2) the Dome time he did what visit?

…………………………………………………………………………………………

3) travel how he there did?

…………………………………………………………………………………………

4) he evening on dinner where have did Monday?

………………………………………………………………………………………….

5) on did lunch he who Wednesday have with?

………………………………………………………………………………………….

6) he who on evening did visit Wednesday?

………………………………………………………………………………………….

7) did Thursday on where he evening go?

………………………………………………………………………………………….

8) see he did what?

…………………………………………………………………………………………

C Now answer these questions with full sentences.

1) What did he discuss with Gabriele? – e.g. He discussed Naples Airport.

2) What time was his first meeting on Monday? - ……………………………………..

3) What did he make on Tuesday morning? - ………………………………………….

4) Where did he spend the day on Tuesday? - ………………………………………….

5) What did he attend on Wednesday? - ………………………………………………..

6) What did he do there? - ………………………………………………………………

7) Where did he go on Thursday? - ……………………………………………………..

8) Who did he meet? - …………………………………………………………………..

 

 

TEXT B

1 Study this vocabulary and definitions and think of Russian equivalents:

acquisition – the act of buying something such as a company, a building, or a piece of land

(приобретение чего-л.; процесс)

brand – the name of a product produced or sold by a particular company

customer – a person or an organization that buys a product or service

developing country – a country with little industrial and economic activity and where people generally

have low incomes (развивающаяся страна)

division – one of the main separate parts that a company, or group of companies, is divided into (отдел,

отделение (в учреждении)

market leader – the company that sells most of a product or service in a particular market

market share – the number of products or services that a company sells compared to the number that

other companies sell (доля рынка (удельный вес компании в общем объеме

рыночных продаж)

production site – an area of land or place where a particular manufacturing activity happens or is planned

to happen (местоположение производства)

research centre – the part of a business that tries to find ways to improve existing products, and to

develop new ones (отдел исследований и разработок)

staff - all the people who work for a particular company or organization, or in a particular place (штат

служащих)

subsidiary – a company that is controlled by another (дочерняя компания)

takeover – taking control of a company by buying enough of its shares to do this (поглощение (другой компании); приобретение контрольного пакета акций)

turnover – the amount of money that a company gets from sales during a particular period

(товарооборот)

2 Read and translate the text. Pay attention to the words in bold..

PERRIER VITTEL

Perrier Vittel is a subsidiary of the Nestlé Group. It has millions of customers all over the world. It is the water division of the group and has many famous brands such as San Pellegrino, Contrex, Panna and Aquarel. There are sixty-seven production sites producing billions of litres of bottled water. The main research centre of the Nestlé Group is Lausanne and there is a network of seventeen other centres on four continents employing 2,500 staff. This research helps produce safe and affordable water for everybody.

A recent new product is Nestlé Pure Life. The company bottles this water locally in developing countries such as Pakistan and Brazil.

Nestlé’s interest in water began in 1969 with the acquisition of 30% of Vittel. After the takeover of Perrier in 1992 the new company Perrier-Vittel became a major part of the Nestlé Group. Today water sales represents 8.8% of the groups turnover. The group is international market leader for bottled water with 15% market share. A new CEO, Frits van Dijk took over in 2000 and he aims to keep Perrier-Vittel at the front of the bottled water market in both sales and technology.

 

3 Look at this organization chart. Use the information from the text above to complete the missing information.

1 Parent company

Nestlé

2 ………………..

Perrier Vittel

 

3 ………………. 4 ……………….. 5 … ……………..North America,

Perrier, Nestlé Pure Life Frits van Dijk Europe, Asia, South America

4 Issac Cady is on a visit to Milan. Piera Macaluso introduces him to some colleagues. Listen to the dialogues and write down what jobs they do. (BB, T.34, 05’00-06’25)

a) William Bernstein b) Marianna Tardelli c) Carla Dendena

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d) Gianni Baresi e) Danial Jones f) Erika Chang g) Frank Jensch

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5 Listen again and check your answers.

1) PM: Hello, William. Could I introduce you to Isaac Cady from Washington? This is William

Bernstein. He’s an accountant.

WB: Nice to meet you, Isaac. Do you know Marianna Tardelli? She’s our Marketing Director.

MT: How do you do.

IC: How do you do.

2) PM: Hello, Carla. Meet Isaac Cady. This is Carla Dendena. Carla’ s in charge of Human

Resources.

IC: Nice to meet you, Carla. Are you busy at the moment?

CD: Very.

3) PM: Isaac, I’d like you to meet Gianni Baresi, our company lawyer, and Daniel Jones, our Sales

Director, who I think you met last year.

GB: Nice to meet you.

IC: Nice to see you again.

PM: Oh, and this is Erica Chang. She’s Daniel’s Personal Assistant.

EC: How do you do.

4) PM: Can I introduce you to Frank Jensch? Frank here is our Head of Research.

IC: A very important job. Pleased to meet you.

FJ: Pleased to meet you. Come and see my laboratory if you have time.

IC: Thank you. I’d like to.

 

6 Match the jobs in the box with the descriptions below.

managing director personal assistant sales representative training officer purchasing manager laboratory technician quality control manager

 

1 I organize training courses for members of staff – languages, computers, etc.

2 I set up the equipment and do experiments and tests.

3 I am the senior executive.

4 I check that products are made to the right standards.

5 I visit customers and try and increase business.

6 I work with the Managing Director. I am responsible for his diary, organize his travel, and take calls for him.

7 I buy everything the company needs, from raw material* to stationery**.

raw material*- сырье

stationery**- канцелярские принадлежности

7 At a budget meeting four managers talk about their departments. Listen and fill in the gaps with the words you hear. (BB, T.35, 06’30-08’37)

 

1. Thank you so much. I would like to talk about the ___________ __________. As you know there are _________ scientists in the department plus ________ technicians. Our main activity is ___________ ____________. We have a well-equipped laboratory and __________ offices. We are _____ in the main building. We work a lot with computer companies in the _______, so we spend _____ _____ ______ our budget on travel.

 

2. I am in charge of the ______________ Department. There are _________managers in the team and ___________ administrative _________. We are responsible for all ___________, raw material, components, and other supplies. We travel a lot to _________, the Philippines, and Korea. We have a large ________ ________ office on the second floor and two more offices on the top floor. We use fax and e-mail a lot.

 

3. My department is the _______________ _____________ Department. We are on the _________ floor of the main building. We are responsible for the _______________ and training. As you know, we spend a lot of our ___________ on computer and __________ training. There are _________ of us in the department, plus the Director.

 

4. Hello. I am the Head of the ________________ Department. It’s very small. There are _________ of us in one large open – plan ___________ on the ground floor. We are in charge of internal and external _________________ and public relations. Our main projects are the company ______________, which we produce four times a year and we are also responsible for the ____________ of the annual report.

8 Complete the grid below with the missing information.

Department			Human Resouces
Staff		12 (5+7)
Office				large, open-plan office – ground floor
Activity	software research
Other information

9 Listen again and check your answers.

 

10 Speak about the departments with the help of the grid.

11 Study the language to talk about a department.

1 Describing the activity of a department

My department deals with / is responsible for marketing / administration, etc.

We organize test / studies / research.

We work wit customers / suppliers / subsidiaries / other companies in the group.