File cards 1Bto 199B

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CARD
You receive a visitor
the town where you now live, or to your birthplace.
to

You agree to have a meal in a restaurant. Either use a menu from a local restaurant, printedin
4B your own language (explain in English what the various dishes are), or use the menu below, Tulk
about what there is to eat, choose what to have, comment on the restaurant, talk about the town
and the number of visitors, tourism, places of interest, etc.
If you like, develop small talk about business, work the state of the
or country's economy and/
or business prospects.
Act out parts of the meal. Comment on the food.

Finally, ask for the bill. You intend to pay- you are the host. Final comments on the meal.
Decide what to do next.

ABNO
Jlarles Val
Chilled Andaluz Gaspacho L3.50 Siloin Steak
A superb reat from Southern Spain. A cold soup rich in EI5.5.00
Grilled sirloin cooked to
specificauons and
tomatoes, cucumber. parsley and garlic. with butter and
your garnished
parsley. Served with new poatoes.
Roasted Piedmont Peppers E3.50 Fillet Steak
From Northern Italy. Two halves of red pepper filled with sun 17.00
Grilled fillet steak cooked to your
dried tomatoes and anchovies. Finished with basil and specificauons and garnished
garlic. with butter and parsley. Served with new
poatoes.
Fish Soup t4.00 Roast Lamb
A rich broth of fish stock with whole prawns, squid and mussels. 15.00
Oven baked shoulder or leg of lamb with
Served with new potatoes.
garlic and rosenury
Deep Fried Squid L4.00
Squid rings fried in a herb batter and served with a light salad.
Spiced Lamb and Cashew Kebabs (14.00
Field Mushrooms with Garlic Barbecued chunks ot lamb wth onios. peppers nd cashhew nuG.
L4.50 Served with rice.
An ltalian speciality. A steaming hot dish of qualty porcini in
oil and garlic.
Rabbit Hot Pot
A superb stew of mbbit
L1400
Salmon and Dill 4.50 cooked in a rich broth of onios, stout
and prunes. Served with baked poatoes.
A Norwegian ureat Smoked salmon from the northern fiords.
Served with dill and a chunk of lemon
Chicken with
A classic french
Sherry Vinegar and Tarragon Sauce 14.00
Cream of Vegetable Soup 3.50 recipe, Iried and served ln a deep carthenware
dish, with new potatoes.
Fresh vegetables in a rich broth topped with cream.

Tomato Salad with Garlic and Herbs L3.00

Chicken Stir Fry l6.00
Succulent tomatoes dressed in extra virgin olive oil with Chicken breast lighuy fried in auich assortuent oi
choped a
chives and basil.

Mixed Basque Salad L4.00

From the Basque region of Spaln. Asparagus, lettuce, tomatocs,
Rigatonl with Asparagus ou Gratin i1400
Fresh pasa wiuh and
onion and queen olives topped with chunks of wna fish and egg asparagus a4 cheese toPS
Roasted Vegetables with Cuuncous 41400
a1y Cou the A colourful assurunent oftresh vegetables served vith teca
cheose on a bed of couscous

Spaghettl wich Ol, Chliu Peppers and Panmesan ltoo

Sea Bream Plaki L17.00 A classlc pasta dish tron luly, with a A etaed wi
A Greek specialicy A mcaty white fish cooked in tomata and Luce, spicel willi diied chil Survel wah hval P'armA
onion sauce with lemon and coriander. Served on a bed of rie.
Lasagne Bake
Rainbow Trout with Herbs 1S.00 nd classlc vegelar1an lasage with layvri neah yast awu
Fresh urout baked in the oven with rosemary and thy1ne u c wilh auxed vegetablcs, mota ella a l Parnsat heve

Served with new potatoes or rice

Hake with Cockles I5.00

Fresh hake steak fried in oil wuh cockles and parsley givlng Al desurtu t4S0
the typical salsa verde of the Basque region of Spain.

Thai Fish Cakes with Curry Sauce I5.00

A hot and spkcy treat irom Thailarnd White lish cooked with
lime,ginger and lemon grass and served wui a spey sue.

Grilled Seafood 00 huit i l e lay

A mMixture ol grilled prawns, cockles, mussels, shrirnps and
served with garic bread and salad ama
squid,
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CARD
You have just arrived at D.EM., a London-based pharmaceuticals company. You have an
appointment to see Rowena Stanton in the Research Department.
1B You are very busy and have another appointment this afternoon and one in Manchester
tomorrow. It would actually suit you to spend some time preparing for these appointmenis.

Note:
Be prepared to engage in a few minutes' small talk with the person looking afteryou.
You would like to prepare for your meeting this afternoon.
You would like a recommendation on what would be a nice gift for your partner (male or female)
back home.
You would like to send and receive aconfidential fax.

FILE
CARD You
You are expecting a visitor from Caldos, a multinational company with a plant in Germany.
have arranged a meeting to talk about the products and services you offer. You have sent your,

2B visitor an outline plan for the day.

Welcome the visitor and spend a few minutes making him/ her feel relaxed. There are at present

strikes affecting trains and buses in your region of the country.

The roads are likely to be congested.
Bert Trautman.
Finally suggest that you go to meet one of your colleagues,

FILECARD
where he / she lives and / or works. He/ she
wants to
You are visiting your partner in the town
with him/her.
some social event or entertainment for you. Make an arrangement
arrange
3B

FILE
CARD the caller to spell his/ her name/
Someone calls to talk to your boss, Andrea Koss.Ask
she is in a meeting and
so you can write it
down. Andrea Koss is not available
company name call back later today.
5B take a message or say she will
-

cannot be disturbed. Offer to

number.
If you plan to ask Andrea to call back, get phone
a

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if can visit him/ her and
Choose one of the identities given below. Call your partner to ask you
her company's products.
today. You want to talk about his /
try to make arrangement
6B
an

Holgo Viktor Koberg

Account Manager Chin Distribution Compony

Hamsun S.A.
P.O. Box 484
N-4088 Hundvág
Peter Chang
Project Director
Norway
Tel. 47-4-863196 CDC (Malaysia)
Mobile. 03770-41832196
Koa Kinabalu
Email. hvk2@hamoun.no
Sabah Tel (60 88) 243799
Malaysia
Email. changpetor@cdc.net.my
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You the secretary to Robin Freeley, Production
are
Controller at Hamwell Ltd. Your
and cannot be disturbed. Deal with the caler and do boss is bu
7B not disturb
your boss!

FILE
CARD
Choose one of the identities shown below:

8B
Alexei Rublev
Vinrnelal
Sokolnichesky val, 22
Moscow I071||
Katie Jensen
RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Mobile 02177713124424 Vinmetal a s.

Tel++ 70 95 230076 Bygdoy Alle 90 0273 Oslo NORWAY
Fax ++ 7 0 95 230766 Tel++ 47 497 2265 Enail kjensen@vinmetal no
Email alex.rublev@keito.ru

Ring a Japanese contact called Ken Siam. You would like to meet him to talk about the
potential of your products.

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You are Production Manager at Salco Services. A supplier, Comcosol Ltd., telephones you.
Here is an extract from your diary.
9B
October October
Markehing meeting 1o
17 Monday
Sugam 4p.M.
24 Monday

Interview forSales job Susan 9.3o

18 Tuesday U day 25 Tuesday
Discuss nterviens with
pertonne 10[3p.m. Planning
19 Wednesday 26 Wedncsulay
meenny

20 Thurnduy 27 Thuiday

Dinner at city thak

21 Friday 28 Foday

29 Saturday
22 Suturlay

23 Sundy 30 Sunlay

16
 called Office
111 08 You have bought office equipment and stationery supplies froma company
have been problems with the service. Here is a copy of the
Universe Ltd. Unfortunately there
invoice they sent you for the last order:
11B
Office Universe Limited
430-4 Upper Richmond Road
London Sw15 5TY England
0207 434 5286
Telephone 0207 434 7272 Fax
www.officeuniverse.com
Email accounts@officeuniverse.co.uk

INVOICE
Angus Ltd Estate North Side
Galloway Industrial Your ref: 00U22.10
Our ref: RG3472/5
Unit 15
Aberdeen AB24 5TR

Price
tem
Part ref Qty
E220.00
£2.20
2356-1 100 A4 Zoom Copy Paper £11.60
£5.80
4563-1 2 packs Marker pens E5.20
1
Staples 5000 pack
2156-2 £16.00
Rulers £0.80
2134-8 20 £210.00
@ £2.10
100 Coloured ring binders
3672-2 £11.20
100
Pack of dividers£0.56
3482-1
£473.00
Sub-total
Less discount 5% £23.65
£449.35
Sub-total
VAT 17.5% E78.64
Sub-total
£527.99

+Carriage and packing

£23.50
17.5%
£20+ £3.50 VAT
£551.49
TOTAL

invoice date.
Terms: 30 days from
custom.
Thank you for your year
365 days a
24 hours
a day,
orders to Julie
elephone or fax your

Notes: normal terms are 60 days from invoice.

discount and

COmpany normally
give you 10% and A4 copypaperat
£1.45.

binders at £1.50 £200.00.

OU catalogue offered ring on orders ofover
Ine or packing
do not charge for carriage
usually
y
You did not order any staples. with wrong
deliveries.
have had problems
haye used OU in the past and order taken away.
0u despatched again and the wrong
for your order to be
S
Ask for a new invoice.
in future.
use othersuppliers
prepared to say you will