Transcript Intelligent Business

Unit 5：Development
UNIT OBJECTIVES
Reading: Gas for Peru vs green imperialism
 Language: Development and the environment
Word form
 Career skills: Showing cause and effect
 Culture at work: Dealing with nuclear situations
 Dilemma & Decision: Striking a balance
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Unit Focus
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This unit focuses on particular development,
Camisea in Peru, and the advantages and
disadvantages for the region. On 5 August
2004 the Peruvian President, Alejandro
Toledo, switched on the taps of Peru’s
natural gas project ‘Camisea’ 20 years after
the gas reserves were originally discovered.
Keynotes
What do you understand by prosperity
(wealth) and preservation (keeping alive)
in the title?
 What do you think the title links to the
unit’s topic of development?
 What do you think the picture represents?
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Listening 1
1. OECD was established after World
War 2 to help countries develop their
economies.
 2. It provides data and statistics on a
wide range of subjects (e.g. economic
performance).
 3. It was a forum for more economically
developed countries but now sharing the
lessens they have learnt with LEDCs.
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Reading 1
Peruvian government: For- Peru will become
an exporter of natural gas, GDP will increase
by 0.8%.
 Pluspetrol: For- it will make a profit from
developing the field
 IDB: Unsure – it was willing to grant a loan but
was dissuaded by lobbying
 Amazon Watch: Against- it believes the
project threatens the environment.
 US Import-Export Bank: Unsure- it appears to
be following the decisions of the IDB.
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Reading 2
1T
2T
3T
4T
5F
6F
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Reading 3
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Rainforest, rare species, marine reserve,
isolated tribes
Vocabulary 1-1
1n
2n
3n
4n 5v 6n
Vocabulary 1-3
1.benefit
 4. tests
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2.estimate
5.plants
3.award
6.concerns
Vocabulary 2
Construction: drilling sites, terminals, gas
field, plants, pipeline
Environment: reserves, tribes, rainforest, rare
species.
Language check
Certainty: 1, 2, 5, 7 (is going to, will, would,
must)
 NB: would refers to certainty only if
another event happens first.
 Probability: 6 (should)
 Possibility: 3, 4 (might, may)
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Practice 1
2b
3c
4c
5c
6a
7a
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Practice 2
2. will
3. would
4.could
 5.would
6.might / may 7.will / could /
might / may 8.would / may /might 9.will
 10. should / might/ may/ could
 11.will
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Listening 2
Extract 1: Phone update on new orders
expected for next month. The customer now
wants a bigger order than expected, resulting
in extra time for production staff and maybe
sub-contracting. Phrase: it’ll mean that…
 Extract 2: The IT network will be down for the
rest of the day because of a virus attack,
which will mean that it is possible to send out
the monthly report today.
 Phrase: it’s caused…to…
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