CENTRO DE COMERCIO Y SERVICIOS

READING ACTIVITY 1906035

INSTRUCTOR: Pedro Vélez Galvis
CÓDIGO: 1906035

PROGRAMA: Tecnólogo en regencia de farmacia

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English at Work
What do these people have in common?

A banker in Paris, a waiter in a five-star hotel in Moscow, and a worker in the Hitachi electronics factory in
Tokyo. They all speak English at work. Today, English is the common language used in multinational
companies in countries from France to Singapore.

Jean-Paul is working for a financial company in Paris. Every day he has meetings with other managers in
English. He also reads documents and writes emails in English, and speaks on the phone in English to offices
in other countries.
“We're a multinational company with offices all over the world,” says Jean-Paul. “We also have some people
in our Paris office who aren’t French. We need a common language to communicate, and that language is
English. I think it is a good idea, but some people don’t like speaking English in a meeting when nearly
everybody is French.”
Lina is from Costa Rica and works in Moscow. She is learning English to be able to talk with the customers in
the hotel’s restaurant. She gets good tips from foreigners.
Roberto is factory worker from Brazil. He is working in an electronics factory in Tokyo. All of the manuals for
his work are in English.
 1. Read the text and complete the grid:

Name Occupatio Origin Living Place of Reason to know English

n in work
Banker French Paris Paris because most of his
JEAn- coworkers are not French
and they need a language to
PAUl communicate and that
language is English
Waiter Costa rica moscow moscow The reason why Lina is

Lina learning to speak English is

to communicate with her
clients.

He is a Brazil tokyo Toky o because all the manuals for

worker in an your work are in English
Rober electronic
to factory

2. About you

NAME OCCUPATION ORIGIN LIVING IN PLACE OF WORK REASON TO KNOW

ENGLISH
katherine Maria la baja Maria la baja cartagena English is the
pharmacy language of
regency business, so if I
student can learn to
speak and write
English, this will
open many doors
for me, on the
 other hand,
because some
medications,
their storage
instructions come
in English.
Andres system Maria la baja Maria la baja barranquilla The reason why
engineer he speaks English
is because the
instruction
manuals for the
equipment come
in English.