Higher School of Management and Digital Economy

1st year Business English lessons

Prepared by Mrs Boudjemil

Unit one : Business and company

Starting up

a) Do the following companies quiz:

Which company:
1. has the largest factory in the world?
a. Boeing b. Ford c. Sony
2. was started by RayA. Kroc in 1955 ?
a. Burger King b. Kentucky Fried Chicken c. McDonald's

b)What famous companies come from your country? What do they do or make?

Vocabulary: Talking about a company

a) Look at this article about Michelin, the famous tyre-manufactureing
company. Fill in the gaps using words from the box below. The first letter of each
verb is given.
is has owns sells publishes supplies sponsors
are have plans employs manages advertises manufactures

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b) Choose the correct word (in italycs) to complete the sentences below, as in
the example.
1. Michelin is a tyre fabric / manufacturer/ product.
2. There are over 120,000 employs /employees /employers.
3. It has a profit / loss / turnover of over 14 billion euros.
4. The company /society/ factory has a young chairman.
5. Michelin is BMW Williams's tyre buyer/ retailer/ supplier.
6. Michelin gets/ owes/ owns Uniroyal.
7. Michelins head ofice / head hunter head room is in Clermont Ferrand
8. Its main competes /competitors / competitive are Goodyear and Firestone.

Listening: Unipart

The Unipart Group of Companies (UGC) is a service provider for clients like
Vodafone, Jaguar, Airbus and HP. It is one of the largest private companies in the UK.

a) John M. Neill CBE is Group Chief Executive of UGc. Listen to the first part of
the interview and complete these notes about the company's values.
(Recording09.1)

The company's values are:

• a clear guiding Philosophy: to understand the real and perceived ...............................

of our customers better than anyone else, and ............................... them better than
anyone else;

• a corporate ................................ that requires us to deliver outstanding personal

customer ................................... to all of our customers;

• a very strong ................................ which demands that we, as individuals at every

level in the company, work very hard to inspire all of our stakeholders to want to have
a lifetime...................................... with our company.

b) Now listen to the second part of the interview and answer these questions.

(Recording 09.2)

1. What was Peter Drucker's warning?

2. When did UGCbuild its own company university?

3. What is the university's mission?

4. Why does UGChelp employees reskill themselves?

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Grammar

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Practice 1 : present simple

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Practice 2 : present continous

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Over to you

Write six sentences using present simple and present continuous

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Reading: Natura
Look through the article below and complete this file
Name: Nature Type of product: .............................
Location: ........................................ Number of products:.......................
Chief Executive: .............................. Revenues: .......................................

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Communication skills

Introductions

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Over to you

Work in groups and write your own conversation in which you introduce yourself and
others. Then, you practice orally.

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Business and businesses

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