Speaking

1. Talk about your name, your town, your job, your company, and your
hobbies. Use the expressions to help you.
- My name is…
- I am…
- I live in…
- It’s a … town/ city in the north/ south/ east/ west of …
- I am a …
- I work for…
- In the evenings/ at the weekends I …

2. Prepare a short presentation about the company. Use the expressions below
to help you.
- Name: Pizza Hut
- Location: London
- Employees:16.000
- President: Jon Prinsell
- Products: pizza, pasta, salads, desserts
- Competitors: Pizza Express, Ask
- Number of outlets: 400
- Turnover: £300m
- Future plans: to open another restaurants

3. Work with a partner. An American colleague wants to visit your company or

institute from Saturday evening to Wednesday evening. S/he will have
meetings all day on Monday and Tuesday – but is free the rest of the time.
Prepare a short dialogue about the following.
- nearest international airport
- travel from airport to your home town or company
- shopping hours
- tourist attractions and opening hours
- banks – opening and closing times
- transport
- places to eat
- any other points of interest

4. Work with a partner. An important client is visiting you. Make a list of

things to do and places to visit in your town. Then phone his/ her hotel, and
suggest things to do this weekend. Give explanations where necessary. Your
partner can accept or refuse the invitation.
5. Work with a partner. Student A, you are meeting a visitor at your office.
Student B, you are the visitor. Have a conversation using the prompts below.

Student A Student B
Welcome. → Respond.
←
Introduce yourself. → Respond.
←
Ask about journey. → Respond ( negative reply)

Say you are sorry. Ask about the ←

hotel. → Respond.
←
Respond, then offer drink. → Respond ( positive reply)
←
Ask if this is Student B’s first
visit. → Respond.

6. Work with a partner. Student A, you want to flight to Warsaw. You want to
arrive in Budapest in the early afternoon or late evening. Go to the travel
agent (Student B) to reserve a flight. Look at the information below about
flights to Warsaw. Ask customer when he/she wants to travel, and give the
planes times. When the customer makes decision, note the reservation
details (flight time and day, customer name and telephone name). Prepare a
short dialogue.
LONDON HEATHROW TO WARSAW
Daily flight schedule
Departure Arrival Flight № Airline
07:05 10:30 BA4454 LOT- Polish Airlines
10:35 14:00 BA4450 LOT- Polish Airlines
11:40 15:00 BA850 British Airlines
17:30 20:55 BA4452 LOT- Polish Airlines

7. Work with a partner. You are at the business conference. On the first night
you go to the hotel bar for a drink. You start talking to a colleague. Ask and
answer the questions about your companies or companies you know well.
Prepare a short dialogue about the following.
- Number of customers
- Number of employees
- staff
- factories abroad
- competitors
- market share
- research department
8. Work with a partner. You return your business partner’s call. And speak to
his/ her assistant. Use prompts below and have a conversation. Student B is
an assistant.

You Assistant
1. Ask to speak to your business
partner. → 2. Ask who the caller is.
←
3. Give your name. → 4. Ask caller to wait. Say sorry-
his/her business partner is
absent. Give a reason.
←
5. Ask if your business partner
can call you back. Give a reason
for the call. → 6. Ask for the caller’s phone
number.
←
7. Give your number. → 8. Repeat the number. Ask the
caller to spell his/her name.
←
9. Spell your name. → 10. Repeat the spelling. Say you
will give the message to your
business partner.
←
11. Say thank you and goodbye.
→ 12. Say thank you and goodbye.

9. Work with a partner. You are a guest at the Imperial Hotel. Your partner is
the hotel receptionist. Ask for the following information, using prompts to
help you. Try to continue conversation.
- Distance from the hotel to the city center? (How far…? Taxi service? How
much…? Bus service? How long…?)
- Credit card phones in the hotel? (Are there…? Where…?)
- Street map of the city? (Have you got/ Do you have…? Where can I…?)
- Hand luggage on the plane? (How much…?)
- Send a fax to my company? (Could I …? How much…?)
- Good restaurant near here? (Are there…? What kind of…? How far…? )
- Hotel bar? (Is there…? Where…? What time…? )
10.Work with a partner. Student A is in the Global Village restaurant with
his/her colleague (Student B). Have a conversation about what you want to
order. Use prompts below.
- What would you like?
- What will you have as a starter / as a main course / for dessert?
- It’s made with…
- It’s filled with…
- It’s topped with…
- It’s cooked in / under…
- It’s served in / with…

11. Talk about your department or department you would like to work in. Use
prompts below.
- describe the activity of a department
My department deals with/ is responsible for…
We organize…
We work with…
- describe the stuffing of a department
There are… in the department.
… is in charge of the department
I am one of the…
- describe the equipment / premises of a department
We have…
We use…

12.Works with a partner.You meet your partner for the first time in three
months. Ask and answer questions about the following.
- your company
- your job
- your family
- your English course

13.Work with a partner. You and your partner have just return from business
trips. Ask questions about each other’s trips. You can invent extra details
about your trips. Prepare a short dialogue about the following.
-What was your trip like?
- Which airline did you fly with?
- Where did you stay?
- What was the hotel like?
14.Work with a partner. You work for an American company which wants to
launch a new low-calorie chocolate bar in your country or countries. Hold a
meeting to discuss the points on the agenda below, and make decision for
each one.
Agenda Marketing planning meeting
1. Target customer? –sex, age
2. Dimensions?
3. Wrappings? – sporty, classic, young
4. Product name?
5. Price? - same as other chocolate bars, higher than usual, lower
6. Launch date?
7. Advertising? – a famous personality to promote it, a slogan for advertising
campaign

15.Work with a partner. Both of you have some business problems. Tell each
other your problems and offer advice. Use prompts below.

Student A Student B
1. Your staff want a salary 1. Your father is 72, and he
rise of 10 per sent. is still CEO of the
2. Your turnover is down company.
20 per sent. 2. You don’t like the colour
3. Your company car is 5 of your new BMW.
years old. 3. The staff never want to
4. Your best customer have a drink with you after
wants a 5 per sent work.
discount. 4. You cannot choose
5. You work seven days a between Florida and
week. Hawaii for your next
6. You cannot relax. holiday.
5. You work 5 days a week,
but you would like longer
weekends.
6. An American firm wants
to buy the business for
1000 000$ but your father
wants more.
 16. In pairs talk about your own working or study conditions. What aspects are
you not happy about? Use the ideas below to help you. Prepare a short
dialogue about the following.

A B
Travel Homework
Hours worked Exams
Length of day Class size
Office – size, number of people Social life
Responsibility Teachers
Salary Money
Boss

17. Work with a partner. You are looking for another job. You are interviewed
by a business magazine about the problems of being unemployed. Give
interview using prompts below.
- Age?
- Profession?
- Married?
- Wife / work?
- Last job?
- Where?
- How long?
- How/ lose job?
- How long unemployed?

18.Work with a partner. Prepare a short dialogue about the following.

Student A:
You need to purchase six new computers for your office. Call JA's Computer
World and ask for the following information:
Current special offers on computers
Computer configuration (RAM, Hard Drive, CPU)
Guaranty
Possibility of discount for an order of six computers

Student B:
You work in at JA's Computer World answer student A's questions using the
following information:
Two special offers: Multimedia Monster - with latest Pentium CPU, 256 RAM,
40 GB Hard Drive, Monitor included - $2,500 AND Office Taskmaster -
cheaper CPU, 64 RAM, 10 GB Hard Drive, Monitor not included - $1,200
1 Year guaranty on all computers
Discount of 5% for orders of more than five computers
19.Work with a partner. Prepare a short dialogue about the following.
Student A:
You want to speak to Ms Braun about your account with her company, W&W.
If Ms Braun isn't in the office, leave the following information:
Your name
Telephone number: 347-8910 (or use your own)
Calling about changing conditions of your contract with W&W
You can be reached until 5 o'clock at the above number. If Ms Braun calls after
5 o'clock, she should call 458-2416

Student B:
You are a receptionist at W&W. Student A would like to speak to Ms Braun,
but she is out of the office. Take a message and make sure you get the
following information:
Name and telephone number - ask student A to spell the surname
Message student A would like to leave for Ms Braun
How late Ms Braun can call student A at the given telephone number

20. Prepare a short presentation about the company. Use the expressions below
to help you.
- Name: Nokia
- Location and Head office: Helsinki
- Employees:53,000
- Research center: Tampere
- Products: mobile telephones, base stations
- Competitors: Motorola, Ericsson
- Factories: in 10 countries
- Advertising: on TV, in magazines, and on buses
- Languages: Finnish, English

21.Prepare a short presentation about the company. Use the expressions below
to help you.
- Name: Swatch Group
- Location: Biel, Switzerland
- Production centers: in Europe, Asia
- Chairman and founder: Nicolas G Hayek Senior
- Products: Omega- luxury watches, Tissot and Calvin Klein- middle of the
range, Swatch and Flik Flak- basic watches
- Annual sales: 118 000 000 watches
- Most famous product: Swatch watch
- Future plans: components for telecommunications industry, components for
entire Swiss watch
22.Prepare a short presentation about the company. Use the expressions below
to help you.
- Name: Michelin
- Location: Clermont Ferrand in the center of France
- Employees:120.000
- Annual sales: €14 billion
- President: Eduardo Michelin
- Products: tyres
- Competitors: Goodyear, Firestone
- Advertising: on TV, in magazines
- Main markets: Europe, The USA and
- Future plans: plan to develop the Asian market

23. Prepare a short presentation about the founder of the famous company. Use
the expressions below to help you.
1863 Henry Ford born in Michigan
1879.1902 work in various workshops building cars and engines
1903 find Ford Motors
1908 launch Model T-Ford
1913 introduce the car assembly line
1918 Candidate for the Senate – lose election
1947 allow unions at Ford for the first time
1947 die

24. Prepare a short presentation about the history of the company. Use the
expressions below to help you.
Name: McDonald’s
Founder: Ray Kroc
Location: Illinois
Service: in 90 seconds
Number of customers: 40,000,000 daily
Key dates:
1955 open first McDonald’s
1968 invent The Big Mac
1963 Ronald McDonald appear on TV
1979 introduce Happy Meal
1984 die Ray Kroc
1990 open in Moscow and Beijing
1996 open in Belarus
1999 open in Chicago (25,000th)
25.Prepare a short presentation about the history of the company. Use the
expressions below to help you.
1985 found American Online Inc.
1989 offer a service called America Online
1992 go public, number of subsidiaries 200,000
1993 Steve Case becomes CEO
1994 number of subscribes 1,000,000
1995 joint venture with Bertelsmann AG
1996 start problems
1998 new president Robert Pittman
1999 buy Netscape the original browser
2000 acquire Time Warner