新编剑桥商务英语(高级)第三版 1.1
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1.1 Working life
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What does this
quotation mean to you?
`Life
is what happens to you while you're busy making
other plans.'
john Lennon,
English singer& song writer
(1940-19830)
2
Discuss these questions.
1
How many jobs
do you expect to have in your life ? 1-3
4-7
8or more
2 Would
you prefer to be self-employed or an employee? Why
?
3 in fifteen
years’
time
, do you expect to work more or
less than now ?
4 at what age do you expect
to stop working ? 55
65
75
3Underline
tire best word to complete each
sentence.
1
At the moment, people generally
retire/resign at 65
2
I joined/applied for
the company when I was 25
and have worked there ever
since
3
What's the best way to
pay/reward our employees for good
performance?
4 About 700
staff were laid off/dismissed when the company
lost the contract to
supply Toyota
5
We
have educated/trained our staff in the use of
laser equipment.
6
I'm going to leave/change the company at the end
of the year.
7
E and C Consultants
recruits/employs from the top business
schools.
8
Companies
need
to
offer
parents
of
young
children
more
flexible/overtime
hours-
9
they used only to offer permanent posts, but now
most new contracts are
temporary/part-time
ones.
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10
I have one day off/ holiday a week to
attend a course at college.
4
Make sentences
with the words you didnt use in Exercise
3.
5
Make nouns from thefollowing
verbs.
verb
1
employ
2 promote
3 retire
4
resign
5 train
Attitude to work
6
Do you think
that people starting work now have a different
attitude to work than
their parents did? if so,
in what ways?
7
Look at the newspaper article and read
the title. What does the title suggest to
you?
Read the article arid
check if you were r fight.
Young workers
Want it all, now
Oh, and they
’
ll
need to take next Friday off ,too
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noun
verb
6
recruit
7 apply
8 dismiss
9 pay
10 reward
noun
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TETROIT
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Kurt
Jennings, hoping to start a career in radio sales,
thought he
was prepared to
answer any question during his recent interview.
Then the
radio
executive
opened
the
interview
with,
`So,
we
call
you
guys
the Entitlement Generation
There is an impression that the current
generation of young workers has high
expectations
for
salary,
responsibility
and job flexibility, but little
appetite
for hard work and
little sense of loyalty to a company
`A
lot of twenty-
somethings have a hard time making the transition
to work
typically Kids who've had
success early in life and who've become used to
getting
instant
gratification,'
says
Dr.
Levi
Cohen,
a
peadiatrics
professor.
He
says
that coddling parents
and colleges often fail to prepare students for
the realities of
adulthood and working
life.
Many
employers,
from
corporate executives to
restaurateurs, agree.
`It seems they expect to
hove in then first week everything that the
veteran has
worked 20 or 30
years to earn,' says Mike Amor, the owner of a
Salt Lake
City chain of
restaurants.
Kurt had this reply 'for
his interviewee at the radio station:
`Maybe we were
spoiled by your Generation. But
think we're deserving if
we're doing to go out there and break our backs
for you'?
Yes..'
He ended up
getting the-job.
But some experts say that'
having high
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expectations, and tellin}}
your boss what they are, isn't necessarily a bad
thing.
`It's true they're not all rushing to
bury themselves in a cubicle
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follow orders
for the next 40
years, but
why
on earth
should
they?'
asks
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Bartlctt,
a
University of
Carolina psychologist
8
Do you think the younger
generation is spoiled and expects too much? .or do
you think the older generation
sacrificed their lives (and fun in their lives)
for work?
9
What do the following phrases from the
text mean?
1 little appetite
for hard work
2 twenty-
somethings
3 instant
gratification
4 coddling
parents and colleges
5 we
were spoiled by your generation
6 break our backs for you
7 bury themselves in a
cubicle
Gerund and
infinitive
1
Which of the verbs or phrases in the box take the
gerund (-ing) and which ones
take to infinitive (to do)?
Be good at
plan/intend /aim
be worth
fail
be reluctant
have trouble/difficulty
hope/expect
manage
succeed
in
decide
think about/consider
enjoy
avoid
involve
have
be used to/accustomed to
be willing/prepared
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2 Which of the following
pairs of phrases is the odd one out grammatically?
Why?
1
be good at
一
be bad
at
2 be
willing
一
be
reluctant
3 succeed
in
一
fail
4
enjoy
一
dislike
3
Complete these sentences.
0 when I retire, I plan to do some
voluntary work for charity
1
When I retire,
I plan…
2
I think I'm quite good at…
3
Before
attending a job interview
, it's
worth…
4
My job involves…
5
When speaking
English, I often have difficulty…
6
At work I feel
satisfied if I manage…
7
For my summer holiday this
year, I am considering…
8
If I was offered more
money, I would be willing…
9
The hardest thing
abo
ut starting a new job is getting
used to…
10
I get annoyed with colleagues if they
fail…
4 Choose
five of the phrases
working life.
in
exercise 1 and make sentences about your own
working life
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The
future of human resources
5
You will hear five human
resources (HR) manages0s talking shout the
key
issues in human
resources facing companies today.
·The first time you listen, indicate
which employee group in the workforce they
are
talking
about.
·The second time you
listen indicate what actions the
y
propose to take to deal with
each
issue.
TASK ONE
一
EMPLOYEE
GROUP
A older
employees (50-GO)
B new
recruits
C
trainees
D senior
management
E young highly
qualified employees
F
women
G retired
employees
H disabled
workers
A
efforts to retain good employees
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