商务英语Unit 5 International Business

Styles教材：新视野商务英语（下）

Unit 5 International Business Styles

Objectives Language focus Skills Business Communication Key Vocabulary Lead-in Reading Homework

Objectives

When the learners finish learning this unit, they should be able to

providing information on international business styles

collecting information on international business styles.

Language focus

Modal verbs: talking about possibility

Pronunciation : word linking stress patterns

Skill

Writing: connectors to show addition of information

Reading: Marks& Spencer

Listening: world competitive scoreboard

Business Communication

Describing trends: interpreting graphs

Key vocabulary

characteristic availability of labor labor cost availability of raw materials state of the economy economic recession unemployment national culture hierarchy subordinates delegate initiative

Lead-in

1.Read the portraits of managers in five different countries and decide which country each one corresponds to

Germany Poland Sweden the united kingdom

2.In which country is the shopping basket of everyday goods most expensive?

3.In which country is it least expensive?

Words and expression

recession: withdrawn, out of receding slump hampers: n. packing-case or basket with a li

d, esp one used for sending food. balance: capital optional: which may be chosen or not as on

e wishes; not compulsory assembly: mass come together

Language Focus Modal verbs: talking about possibility may, might It takes a long time to earn enough to buy a

machine. There may be a luxury tax on it. can’t , could I could be wrong. adverbs: maybe, perhaps, probably Note: maybe is one word when it means

perhaps. Compare the two sentences: Maybe demand is very high in Chicago. Demand in Chicago may be very high.

Reading

empower: to give sb. more control to bomb: to go badly to go a bomb: to be successful exuberant: happy, cheerful, full of energy etiquette: polite behaviour premises: statement on which reasoning is based. valve: (sort 0f ) mechanical device for controlling t

he flow of air, liquid or gas into or through a tube, pipe etc, by opening or closing a passage.

exhaust: ( outlet, in an engine or machine, for) steam, vapour etc that has done its work exhaust pipe

Homework

1.listening to the tape after class.

2.reciting the new words and the text of key vocabulary.

3.writing a composition.