Products and services

Grammar: Present Simple tense

Reading: Online services
 What do the following companies produce or
provide?
• Pharmaceuticals
• Real Estate
• Electronics
• Recruitment
• Hotel
• Software
• Financial Services
• Automobile
 What type of company is your company?
Does your company produce products or provide
services?
2.1 Listen to three people at a job fair and complete the sentences below
• Natasha works for a _____ company. She provides staff in the _____
industry.
• Malik’s company produces _____ for _____ companies.
• William works in _____. He wants a job in the _____ industry.
Complete the table with proper products or services from
the list:

pharmaceuticals product, staff service, cars product, software product, finance service,
electronic equipment product

A B C
GlaxoSmithKline Produces/provides
Microsoft Produces/provides
Sony Produces/provides
Manpower Produces/provides
Toyota Produces/provides
Deutsche Bank AG Produces/provides
 2.3 Listen to the presentation about Kikkoman
and complete it with the verbs from the list:
employ, sell, export, provide, buy, develop

Kikkoman is a Japanese company and we _____ 400 million liters of soy sauce
every year. We _____ around 6,000 people in total. We _____ soy sauce all over
the world, including Asia, North America, Australia and Europe. We also _____
new products for the pharmaceuticals industry. Restaurants, supermarkets
and Asian food shops _____ our products and we also _____ lessons in
Japanese cooking – using Kikkoman products, of course!
 Language Tip
work + for/with/in
We use the verb work in different ways: Prepare a short presentation about your
company, including the ideas below:
• Work for (an employer/company): I
work for BMW. • I’m…
• Work with (people or another • I’m from…
country): I work with colleagues. • I work for…
• Work in (department or area of • We produce/provide…
business): I work in Production.
• We employ…
• We develop…
• We export to…
 Present Simple: other verbs
I, you, we, they - work every day

He, she, it - works every day

I, you, we, they do not = don’t work every day

He, she, it does not = doesn’t work every day

Do I, you, we, they work every day?

Does He, she, it work every day?

2.4 CJ is a Korean company with different business areas. Match these areas to
the descriptions below A-D:
BioPharma, Food and Food Service, Home shopping and Logistics,
Entertainment and Media

A B
We produce/produces sugar and We export/exports medicines to
cooking oil. The company have/has countries around the world and we
restaurants, cafes, and food shops. It develop/develops new
provide/provides meals for biotechnological products.
restaurants, schools, and hospitals.
2.4 CJ is a Korean company with different business areas. Match these areas to
the descriptions below A-D:
BioPharma, Food and Food Service, Home shopping and Logistics,
Entertainment and Media

C D
The company produce/produces films We provide/provides a home
for the Korean market and abroad. We shopping service. We have/has a
import/imports films from foreign logistics center. It provide/provides
production companies… and we transport and delivery service.
have/has eight cable TV channels… and
a chain of cinemas.
 2.5 Listen to an interview about CJ and
complete these questions and answers:
1 A : _____ _____ export these products?
B Yes, we _____.
2 A: _____ the _____ import films, too?
B: Yes, _____ _____.
3 A: _____ CJ provide financial services?
B: No, it _____ provide financial services.
4 A: _____ you _____ medicines?
B: No, _____ _____. We export medicines.
 • you work for?
Roleplay the dialogue with • your company export/import?
a partner • your company produce/provide?
• your company develop/deliver?
Ask and answer questions • you have?
using the prompts
• your department employ?
• your customers buy?
 Grammar Practice
Correct the mistakes
• You do work for Terranova?
• Nokia doesn’t works in the automobile industry.
• Does Jane work for HBBC? Yes, she do.
• Do you work in the recruitment industry? Yes, I
work.
• Max doesn’t develops software. He provides
software training.
• Your company employs 500 people.
Complete the email with the correct form of the verbs:
employ, have, produce, (not) work, sell, (not) export
To: Klaudia@bme.cz
From: s.field@bme.com
Subject: New customer information
Hello Klaudia,
Here’s some information about your new
customer: The company _____ computer
components. It _____ 800 people in Europe. Its
head office is in Barcelona. It _____ to America,
but it _____ to most Asia. We _____ with their
offices in the UK, but we ______ contact with their
factories in France and Italy.
Good luck with your meeting on Tuesday.
Best regards,
Sandy