1、Unit 16,2014.12,Business English: A Reading Course,Background information,I. Competition among corporations turns to knowledge and skills. II. Competition among corporations is that of employees qualities.,Background information,III. How to handle employees is the key to a corporations success. 1. t
2、o be humble to win support; 2. good at collecting ideas 3. concerned with the interests of the staff. How to handle employees is a great challenge. The greatest obstacle is communication.,Warm-up Questions,1. Suppose you were a boss, how would you handle your men in the office so as to make business
3、 prosperous?2. In a community of people from all over the world with different cultures and languages, such as a multinational, what can you do to help them to overcome the difficulties in communication?,Business English: A Reading Course,5,Reading Skills: Introduce the Basic Information about Busin
4、ess English Reading,Business English: A Reading Course,评论性阅读：读者在正确理解作品的基础上,对作品做出鉴别、判断、评论。 有效的评论性阅读三步骤： 1. 理解文本： 标志着观点出现的词语： 2. 评价文本： 3. 做出反应：,Notes on the Text:1. That doesnt mean that you ought to coddle idleness, or to be slack with viciousness, or even to carry on the pay-roll well-meaning incomp
5、etence. 那并不是说你应该纵容懒惰，或疏忽恶意，甚至给善良但不胜任的员工发放薪水。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A： Handle Your Men In the Office,Notes on the Text:2. For a fellow who mixes business and charity soon finds that he cant make any money to give to charity; and in the end, instead of having helped others, hes only
6、added himself to the burden of others. 对一个把企业和慈善机构混淆起来的人来说，他很快就会发现赚不到任何钱捐给慈善机构了，并且最后他不但不能帮助别人，自己反而成了他人的负担。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A： Handle Your Men In the Office,Notes on the Text: 3. sits around waiting to be hunted up. 坐等被人发现。 4. Indiscriminate blame is as bad as undiscriminating
7、 praiseit only makes a man tired. 不分青红皂白的指责和不加区别的褒奖一样，是不可取的只会使人感到厌烦。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A： Handle Your Men In the Office,Notes on the Text:5. Once you do, and its only a matter of time before youve got to place the remnants in the hands of a doctor as receiver. 一旦你这么做了，那么何时把你的余生
8、交到医生手里就只是个时间问题了。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A： Handle Your Men In the Office,Text B： How to Make the Multicultural Work Force Work,Notes on the Text: 1. Immigrants will account for nearly two-thirds of the countrys population growth between now and 2050, according to the US Department o
9、f Labor.account for: (在数量方面)占。如： Petrochemicals today account for one fourth of all the chemicals made, and in 10 years this account is expected to double. 石油化工产品现在已占所有化学制品的四分之一，预计十年后这个数目还要翻一番。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text B： How to Make the Multicultural Work Force Work,Notes on the Text
10、: 2. To learn how to stack a cooler, for instance, employees study photos of how the contents can be arranged so that drivers dont have to reach deep inside to grab any drinks. 例如，为了学会如何在冰箱里放置食品，雇员研究食品能够被如何放置的照片，这样司机就不用把手伸得很深去抓取饮料。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text B： How to Make the Multicult
11、ural Work Force Work,Notes on the Text:3. Otherwise, he says, ESL classes come and go without much to show for them. 他说，否则的话，非母语英语课程昙花一现，对他们并没有什么效果。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text B： How to Make the Multicultural Work Force Work,Notes on the Text:4. Chefs from the Caribbean know how to whip
12、 up such specialties as mondongo (cow intestine), stewed goat, and salted codfish. 来自加勒比地区的厨师知道如何迅速准备好他们的特色菜，如“焖炖沟”（牛肠）、炖羊肉和腌鳕鱼。,Business English: A Reading Course,Keys to Exercises,I. T F T T T II. B A A B C III. 1. 我所说的谦卑并不是指在大街上为了乞讨5分镍币而卑躬屈膝和为了1000美元在办公室里阿谀奉承；这是使一个人为有机会在世上工作而感到骄傲的谦卑，是使一个人想成为一个诚实的
13、商人、一个医术高明的医生或者一个公正的律师的谦卑。 2. 成为一个优秀管理人员的诀窍是其预防员工犯错误的警觉程度超过其惩罚犯错误员工的迫切程度。 3. 当你为你的客户开启酒瓶时，你的客户敞开了心扉。从前的情况也许如此，不过在当今时代，只有能力差的销售员才会选择饮酒的方法。把业务和饮酒扯在一起的人大部分都以失败告终。,Business English: A Reading Course,Text A,Text B,I. C B C D A II. D B B A A III. 1. 的确，当决策者们努力寻求能够解决边境安全问题的妥当方法时，劳埃德正努力解决他自己最紧迫的问题。2. 当移民司机不能
14、回答客户问题时，他也很乐意接电话来解决可能发生的问题。3. “城市新鲜”公司也用数字作为通用语言。4. 但是任何想要进入管理层的人必须掌握英语。,Business English: A Reading Course,Keys to Exercises,1. Try to remember new words and expressions in Unit 16; 2. Make a summary for Part IV Supplementary Reading with no more than 50 words; 3. Finish Part V Test Yourself, five minutes for each passage. 4. Review all contents learned in this book.,Business English: A Reading Course,Assignment,
