Activity 2 - Reading and listening

Activity 2 - Reading and listening

·  2.1.1 Read article From small town to global leader on page 9 of your Market Leader book and develop exercises A to B.

A Read this article. the complete the chart below

Angela ahrendts
Age	50
Job	Burberry
Nationality	American
Family	husband, 15 year old son and two daughters aged 11 and 14
Interests outside work	she likes to eat pizza with her children and play basketball with them

B Decide wheter these statementsare true (T) or false (F).Correct the false ones

1.          Burberry is an American company

F (It’s a British company)

2.          Burberry is a global fashion company

T

3.          All Arendt’s children are teenagers

F (  that their 11 year old daughter is not adolescent and his son is 14 and her daughter 11 years if they are teenagers)

4.          They are school in American

T

5.          Most morning , ahrendts is up before 5 a.m.

F ( she usually gets up around 4:30 a.m. )

6.          She is away on business most weeks

F (she travels on business one week a month)

7.          She has a lot of interests outside work

F (family)

8.          For ahrendts , keeping in contact with relatives is important

T

2.1.2 Open your Market Leader book on page 16, read article Business diary: Eugene Kaspersky, and develop exercises A to E. Send these exercises in the Word file corresponding to Study Guide 1. DO NOT take photos of the pages and paste them on the Word file; you have to type these exercises (including the instructions)

 A  Before you read the article ,discuss these questions

1.          What do you think is a typical day in the life of the CEO  of a big company?

spend all his time in office pending the company who is in charge, will not have much time for your family and personal life

2.          How much time de CEOs spend travelling ?

  two weeks a month

3.          Do CEOs need holidays ?

relajarce need accommodation for a season quue he spends all day working and has no time for him and his family

B   Look through this article .Can you find  any of the ideas you discussed in Exercise A?

In comparisons of exercise reading I can say that Kaspersky spend your half time Moscow and the other spends traveling, the time he spends traveling is three weeks vacation needs but leaves in winter to ski and summer is going to the mountains where you can use the internet and mobile phone

C  Answer these questions

1.          Is Kaspersky a formal or informal CEO?

Kaspersky speaks informally with colleagues at your desk or in the restaurant business, and all dresses are informal, but when meeting with the president or his ministers have formal attire

2.          Is most of his business in Russia or in other countries ?

most of its sales of the company are outside Russia

3.          Does he work 24/7 (24 hours a day , seven days a week )?

not only sleep three to four hours and working twenty hours a day

D  Decide whether these statements are true (T) or False (F) .Correct the false ones

1.      Kaspersky travels a lot  T

2.      He wears  formal business clothes in the office F

3.      He Gets up early every day F

4.      He goes to the gym after work T

5.      He likes to have time to relax when he’s in Moscow T

6.      He only has holidays in summer  F

2.1.3 Devepaidzlop exercises A to E on page 24 of your Market Leader book.

Blady paid       boring    interesting     noisy    quiet    relaxing    stressful    well paid

A Which of these adjectives describe work in a call center

ü  Boring

ü  Noisy

ü  Stressful

ü  Well  Paid

B  There call Centre workers answers the question ‘what are the biggest problems for you at work ? . Read their replies

Decisions take the team playing that there are people who never placed under the noise of the machines that have a protective but not enough to leave a little noise.

C  Look at the chart and tick (" " ) the problems the call center workers talk about in the replies .Who talks about each problems ?write Birgit (B) ,Vijay (v) or kevin (K)

Problems		Name
Long working day	(" )	V
Breaks  too short	(")	V
Long hours at workstation	(" )	B
Boring Work	(" )	k
No promotion	(" )	k

                                           

Problems		Name
Angry customers	(" )	k
Low pay	(" )	k
No time between calls	(" )	k
High staff turnover	(" )	k
A lot of noisy	(" )	b

          

D Witch three physical problems are mentioned in Brigit’s Reply?

ü  The noisy of the stations are adjacent jobs

ü  Birgit has a hearing problem

ü  Back pain from his colleagues that touches them all day sitting

ü  Headache from being so long in front of a screen

E Underline the adjectives from Exercise A in the replies