Unit 1 Life at work

1 A. Personal information

• STARTING UP

Work in pairs. Complete the sentences with words from the box. There are two you do not need.

1. ……………. Emma. Emma Schneider, from Habermos in Hamburg.

2. Good morning. …………….. name's Shi Jiabao.

3. My …………. Akim, by the way. Akim Anyukov.

4. How do you do. I'm Nuria Sosa, ……………. RTA Seguros.

• LISTENING

A. Now listen to these four business people introducing themselves. Check your answers to Exercise 1. Then match the speakers (1-4) below to their business cards (A-D).

1. 2.

3. 4.

B. Listen to three conversations. Decide whether these statements are true or false.

Conversation 1

1 Patrick Keller is a Sales Assistant. True

2 Diana Vincent is a Sales Manager.

Conversation 2

3 Hiroshi Ita is Mayumi Nitta's assistant.

4 Dan Marshall is in Finance.

Conversation 3

5 jimmy is pleased to meet Dave.

6 Business is good.

Listen again and complete these conversations.

From conversation 1

A Hello …… Patrick Keller. ….. the new Sales Assistant.

B Oh, hello. ….. to meet you. I'm Diana Vincent.

From conversation 2

A Good morning. My ….. Hiroshi Ito. …… is Mayumi Nitta,

my assistant.

B Nice to ….. you both. I'm Dan Marshall from Marketing.

From conversation 3

A Hello, Jimmy.

B Hi, Dave.

A ….. to see you again.

B You, too. ….. …..?

A Not too good.

B Oh, really? Sorry to hear that. What's the ….. ?

C. Match expressions 1-6 to responses a-f.

1. Hello. My name is Alex James.	a. Pleased to meet you, Eva.
2. I’m Eva, Maria’s assistant.	b. No. How do you do.
3. This is my assistant, Elizabeth Colane.	c. How do you do. Mr. James
4. It’s good to se you again.	d. I’m fine
5.How are you?	e. Nice to meet you.
6. Do you know Sarah?	f. And you.

D. Put expressions in C into the following categories.

1. Saying hello and introducing yourself: ____, ____

2. Introducing someone: ___, ___

3. Saying hello to someone you know: ___, ___ .

• Vocabulary: nationalities

A. Complete the chart of countries and nationalities. Use the words from the box. Add other countries and nationalities.

Country	Nationality
Argentina
	German
Italy
	Russian
Ukraine
Portugal
	Thai
France
Switzerland
	Dutch
Norway
	Mexican
	Finnish
Egypt
	British
Greece
	American
Japan
India
	Chinese
Sweden
	Spanish
Europe
Brazil
	Iraqi
China
	Peruvian
	British
Canada
Poland
	Irish

B. Look at these people. Say where they are from, using words from the list.

Example: Dahila is from India.

C. Say the nationality of the people using words from the list.

Example: Dahila is Indian.

D. Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about the nationality of the companies.

Example:

A Is Sony Japanese? B Yes, it is.

A Is Givenchy Swedish? B No, it isn't. It's French.

Think of three companies you know. Give their nationalities.

• LANGUAGE FOCUS: BE, POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS, PRESENT SIMPLE

A. Study the present forms of the verb TO BE:

I	am	I’m (not)	Russian
You We They	are	You’re (not) We’re (not) They’re (not)
He She It	is	He’s (not) She’s (not) It’s (not)

B. Match personal and possessive pronouns in two columns.

Personal pronouns	Possessive pronouns
He	Your
They	His
You	Its
I	Their
We	Her
She	Our
It	My

C. Make true sentences using the correct form of the verb to be and possessive pronouns.

1. I __________ Spanish.

2. He _________ American. _____ company _______ in France.

3. They ________ from Italy. ________ customers _____ from all over the world.

4. My work colleagues _________ my friends.

5. English __________ important in ______ present job.

6. We like _______ job. It _______ very interesting and challenging.

7. My husband works in IT area. ________ company ________ a website for people with small businesses.

8. Money _____ very important in the world of business.

D. Complete the information about Ingrid with short forms of the verb to be.

My name …. Ingrid. I ..... a graphic designer. I ..... German and I …. from Munich.

I ….. married with two children. They ..... both in high school. Their school ….. near my office.

My husband ….. an engineer. We ….. interested in traveling and the cinema.

My sister …. an accountant. Her company ….. very famous. She ….. my best friend, but unfortunately she lives far from my place – she and her family ….. in Canada now.

E. Study Present Simple tense.

Affirmative

I speak French. He speaks French.

Negative

I don't speak French. He doesn't speak French.

Interrogative

Do you speak English? Does he speak Italian?

C. Make the present simple tense (choose positive, negative or question)

1. (we / not / work late) ____________________________________________

2. (they / think it's a good idea for their business) ________________________

3. (he / know how to develop this project?) _____________________________

4. (why / I / have to do this job?) _____________________________________

5. (she / not / work at the weekends) __________________________________

6. (you / love studying languages?) ___________________________________

7. (we / not / get a high salary) _______________________________________

8. (you / understand the question?) ____________________________________

9. (she / not / want to go to the company party) __________________________

10. (I / like getting new experience) ___________________________________

D. Correct the mistakes.

1. I really likes going to restaurants.

2. Mary are keen on sport.

3. In our free he goes traveling.

4. They is interested in languages.

5. Our colleague always go on holiday in autumn.

6. I enjoy don’t meetings.

7. Where you work?

8. My brother a head of the company. He run one of the departments.

9. What your busiest day in the week?

10. All my neighbours works in the centre of the city. They like his job, but they not like spending his time in traffic jams.

• READING: An interesting man

Before you read

Choose the correct words in italics to make true sentences.

a) If you have patience, you can / can’t wait for something to happen.

b) Hobbies are things which you do in your free / work time.

c) Treasures are things which are very new / valuable.

Now read the article adapted from the Financial Times and put the verbs in brackets in the correct form.