商务英语 Unit 1 Customers

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商务英语
Unit 11 Corporate
Responsibility
教材:新视野商务英语(上)
Unit 11 Corporate Responsibility
 Objectives
 Key vocabulary
 Lead-in
 Language focus
 Skills
 Business communication
 Homework
Objectives
When the learners finish learning this unit,
they should be able to
 providing information on corporate
responsibility
 collecting information on corporate
responsibility
Language focus
 Conditional 1: events and consequences
 Gerunds and infinitives
 Pronunciation: short forms
Lead-in
responsibilities:
1. there should be good communication
2. The company should pay suppliers on
time.
3. the company should have an equal
opportunities policy.
4. It should train its employees.
Skills
 Writing: both…and
either…or
neither…nor
 Reading: late payment of commercial debts
 Listening: the ethical consumer
Key vocabulary
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market research
ethical consumers
behave responsibly
spending power
environment
itinerary foreign business
trip
make good use of colleagues
business partner
social conventions
nationalities
itinerary: plan for details or records of a) journey,
route
convention: general consent ;practice or custom
based on general consent
Conditional 1:
events and consequences
We use Conditional 1 to talk about future
situations the speaker thinks are probable, and
their consequences.
Will expresses certainty about the
consequence. When we are less sure of the
consequence, we can use may and might.
Form:
if+present simple,+will+infinitive
Gerund and infinitives
 When there are two verbs together in a sentence,
we must be careful about the form of the second
verb.
 After most verbs we use the infinitive with to
The company agrees to change its ethical policy
 After some verbs we use the gerund ing form.
We considered making the changes last month.
 Some common verbs which are followed by the
gerund are:
stop finish delay practice imagine consider
risk avoid delay involve
Pronunciation:
short form of will/ will not
Listen to the sentences then repeat.
1. How are will/ will not pronounced in
Conditional 1 sentences?
2.How is will pronounced in the question form?
Reading:
 Hefty: big and strong
 Deterrent: deter; discourage; hinder
 A bill: a proposal for a new law
 On the continent: continental Europe
 League table: a public list of all the worst
payers
Writing:
both…and, either…or, neither…nor
Both…and shows that two things, are
compared.
We use neither…nor to show two options
are excluded i.e. to say that the two options
are not possible or ture.
Either…or shows one of two possible
options.
Homework:
 in the following sentence, is the
consequence probably going to happen?
 Name three responsibilities that
companies have?
 What pattern follows these verbs?
Refuse consider could
 What is an important grammatical
structure to use when you are
negotiating?