English for Business Speaking

English for Business Speaking

Section 1
Networking
Unit 2
Talking about jobs

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Outline:

A. Preparation
a. Useful tips
b. Vocabulary
B. Conversations
C. Understanding
D. Get speaking

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A. Preparation

a.USEFUL TIPS: When telling people about your job:

• Be brief and precise.
• Show how your job benefits people or organizations.
• Make sure that your description is relevant to the person you are talking to.
• Avoid technical terms or acronyms unless talking to a fellow expert.
• Accentuate the positive aspects rather than the negative.

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b.Vocabulary:
Charity 慈善（行为）
Mechanical 机械的
Crop up 突然发生，出现
Somalia 索马里
Challenging 有挑战性的
Rewarding 有意义的
Demanding 要求严格的

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B. Conversation
CD Link: http://www.acadsoc.com.cn/IES/Aplayer.aspx?code=0172149CCF6B09C6
Jenny Harris works for a charity organization called Foodaid. She’s attending a careers
fair at a university where students can talk to representatives from lots of companies to
see if they would like to join them.

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C. Understanding

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D. Get speaking
Your old school or college has approached you and asked you to send them a short
recording describing your job. It will be played to students who are interested in following
your chosen field.

Record yourself if possible. Then, review your recording and consider how you can
improve. Repeat the exercise.

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Answer key:
Understanding

Be brief and precise: ‘Well, actually I’m a lawyer. I’m in charge of managing the legal
department and we make sure that Foodaid understands any legal issues there
might be in the work it does.’
Show how your job benefits people: ‘You feel you are doing something useful with
your skills, not just making some company shareholders richer.’
Make it relevant to the person you’re talking to: ‘J: There are lots of different jobs at
Foodaid. What subject do you study at university?/ S: Engineering. /J: Very
important for Foodaid.’

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Answer key:
Understanding

Accentuate the positive: ‘ You’ll never be rich working for Foodaid. But you get paid.
Very often people like you work with us for a new years to gain experience and then
they move onto other jobs. Lots of companies like that.’; ‘And even if the work is
demanding, it’s never boring.’

Jenny’s mistake was using the acronym ‘NGO’, which she needed to explain to the
student.

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