商務(wù)英語BEC中級口試綜合指導(dǎo)(四)1

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第四課時
    第三講
    Ⅰ Tongue Twister
    1. Good cookies could be cooked by good cook if a good cook could cook good cookies.
    2. If you understand, say understand.
     If you don’t understand, say don’t understand.
     If you understand say you don’t understand.
     How can I understand you understand.
     Understand?
    3. Peter Pipe picked a peck of pickled peppers prepared by his parents and put them on a large paper plate.
    Ⅱ Conversation
    Possible Topics & Questions
     Suggested Answers and Note
    Transport
    How did you come here today?
    How did you travel to the test?
    Did you come here by bus?
    If you could travel by any form of transport you want, what would you choose? (Why?)
    Which form of transport would you like to travel by?
    How do you think you will travel to work in 15 years’ time?
    How do you think you will travel to work 15 years from now?
    ² Bus / taxi / cab / private car / subway /
    Tube underground / tram
    time / safety / money
    ² light way / subway / airport
    ² It would be fast developing in 15 years time and will cover everywhere in Beijing. It will be really convenient.
    Hotels
    What kind of accommodation do you usually stay in when you go on holiday?
    Do you stay in a hotel or an apartment you are on holiday?
    What kinds of facilities do you think hotels ought to provide for business people? (Why?)
    Do you think companies should pay for their staff to stay in expensive hotels on business trips? (Why? / Why not?)
    Should people stay in expensive hotels on business trips? (Why? / Why not?)
    ² hotel/motel/villa/apartment/flat(BrE)/dorm
    ² city breaks, beach holidays
    sun-tanned / fast-tanned center
    ² camping camp or tent
    ² Hitchhiking, hitchhiker (take a gap year)
    ² Domestic travel
    ² Sight seeing
    ² Hi-tech, Local Area Net, internet, database system, fax
    ² Well equipped conference room,
    sound-proof
    multi-function hall
    video-conferencing, tele-conferencing
    ² It depends (on the different circumstances).
    If you fix a deal which is worth $1000000, in that case, your company will pay for you to live…
    If you go there for only $2, it’s impossible.
    Possible Topics & Questions
     Suggested Answers and Note
    Job
    What kind of job would you like to do most?
    (Why?)
    What would your ideal job be?
    What kind of job do you like?
    Should companies offer training to staff?
    (Why? / Why not?)
    Do you think companies should provide training for staff?
    Would you like to work abroad?
    (Why? / Why not?)
    Is the opportunity to work in another country important to you?
    Job title
    Job responsibility
    Job satisfaction
    ² trainingàproductivityàprofitàmotivation
    But: trainingàcost money, time, staff
    opportunity cost
    internal conflict
    ² broaden one’s horizon, experience
    ² …is quite an experience to me.
    ² …is a real eye-opener
    ² culture messenger
    Training Course
    What kind of training course have you ever taken?
    Have you ever taken any training course?
    What do you think is most important when you choose a training course? (Why?)
    What do you usually expect from a training course?
    NewOriental School BEC online training course
    Computer skill training course
    Location
    Transportation
    Duration of course
    Cost
    Flexibility of trainer
    Topics covered
    Materials
    Follow up advice
    High expectancy
    Life expectancy