ao) 11 Top jobs 0 men on the same job agree all the time, then all the time, then both are u ne is useless. If they disagree jess. Dany! F Zanuck, US film producer Prese! Read the information about Shimano. Complete it using the words in the box. opens enters incorporates. manufactures sets up celebrates moves founds | SHIMANO 1821 Shozaburo Shimano the Shimano iron Works to produce bicycle components, 1938 Shimano to present-day headquarters in Sekai City, Osaka. 1987 frst bicycle gears. 1971 factory in Dasseldort. Produces frst Dura-Ace components for racing bikes. 1972 market for fishing equipment. Launches fist speciic components for mountain biking - Shimano Deore XT. 1997 {Action Sports Division to produce new products for snowboarding. 1999 Launches first products for gotf market under the name Uttegr. 2001 80th anniversary. 2002 hydraulic breke system in the XTR top mountain bike range. Complete the sentences about Shimano using the verbs in the boxes. still produces has produced started to produce | bicycle components in 1921 + bicycle components today -ck bicycle components since 1921. | hashed sills opened Shimano a factory in Diisseldorf over 30 years ago. tek a factory in Diisseldorf today. -ft a factory in Diisseldorf for over 30 years.Weta tink ‘or mara onthe Prosant Ports see cago 110 50 11 Top jobs Match the sentences in 2 to the tenses below. i Past Simple 1 Li Present Simple 1 LI Present Perfect Make similar sentences about Shimano with the ince and for. prompis using the Present Perfect, a have / headquanters / Sakai City bo manufacture / bieycle gears make / fishing equipment produce / components / mountain bikes @ have / snowboarding / products divis f be / in the golf equipment market Put the following time expressions in the correct cohumn. five minutes last year 195 20 years a longtime Twas born yesterday he arived months a few years 3 o'clock this morning a couple of days Write sentences which are true for you. Use the Present Perfect, since and for Make questions with ‘you' using the prompts. Use the Present Simple, Past Simple and Present Perfect, as appropriate, a What kind of car / have? How long / have / it Why / choose it? b have / a mobile phone? How long / bave / it? use it / aloe © Where / live? How long / live / there? Where / work? How long / work / there? What / job? @ How long / have / present joh? Like / ie f know 9 be interested inw a Work with a partner, Ask and answer the questions in 1, Tiy to get more information about each subject, if you can. Change partners, Tell cach other about your previous partner. For example: Lucien tives just outside Toulouse. He bas lived there for three years. He works as a research scientist at the university. He's worked there since last june, EI The words and phrases below are ftom a zidio profile of Steve Ballmer, che CEO of Microsoft. Listen to the profile and number the words in the order you hear them. 1 deadline Cisales and support [1 Proctor and Gamble chief executive C1 chairman (J wealthiest man Oo first business manager wedding Oi baskerball 2 Read the script of the radio profile and correct the ten mis and check your answers BILL AND STEVE - two men and a destiny ‘then listen again an hey wiley he mega ah BH Ges Bu no, 3 ising Klin, Gates cle hn oh Oe and Gamble, Graduate Schoo! of Business. 1d atlend the Manchester University way our software cin make leisure time more enjoyable, and Duninesses more ceessful,” Ballmer plays squash and loves baskethall. Ballmer has worked for Microsoft since: 1980, when Gates remembered his college mate s and hired him as the company’s fist business manager. Over the last 20 years Ballmer has been in charge of several Microsoft divisions, including operations, marketing, and sales and suppoxt. In July 1998 he was promoted (o managing director, a role that gave him day- to-day responsibility for running the company. However, since Gates becune ‘Chief Software Aechitect’, Ballmer has assumed ‘Underline three examples of the Present Perfect in the script which tell us when 4 present situation started, 11 Top jobs 514 How much of the script can you remember without looking? Use the words in 1 to reconstruct the story with a partner. Vocabulary 8 Find words and phras in the script in 2 which mean the same as the following: resign/leave a job found/establish finish a university course university qualification employ responsible for give someone a better job dismiss or sack sate aoce spare time @ Use the words and phrases in 3 to complete the following sentences. a If they you, you'll get more money. b He the company with the money he got from his family. © Whois marketing at the company? d= Last year the company 350 new production line workers. e Johns from Oxford with a degree in economics. f She has an MBA as well as a in law. @ They her because she wasn't doing her job properly. bh The managing director _____ after the financial scandal. Wien” i With this new job I don't have much and I miss being able Ste to do spon. vocal of ecxmpary news see page 111 7 Write sentences which are true for you using the words and phrases in 6. Headhunters 82 11 Top jobssion Fluency Ed is. Peter Davis isin the office when he receives an urtexpected call from John Lindsay. Listen to the conversation and answer the questic a Why does John Lindsay call Peter Davie b When did Peter Davis stat work for Blueprint International? © What did he do before? How long bas he been in charge of the international division? @ When did he get married? {Has he got any children? 9 Ishe interested in what the caller has to say? Discuss the following questions with other people in the class a What type of management consultants does John Lindsay work for? b Do you think what he does is ethical? How would you react in this situation? Interview your partner about his/her career history and make notes. Ask questions about work, education, home, family and possessions, Use the prompts in the box to help you. How lon; you ..2- When / Where did you ... before? ‘When did you start / leave / finish ..? Using your notes, write a report for People Search on your partner. Use the model below Peter Davis has worked for Blueprint ntemational singo 1997 where he nas been head of ‘hor Intemational Dhsion for one your. Bofore Bluperit Intemational he was st Nevigete for three years, This was hs fret job alter unhersily where he studied engineering. He graduated from Nottingham Universi in 1998, He has been mate! fortwo years and hs one hi 11 Top jobs 5