商务英语Unit 10 Company Performan

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Unit 10 Company Performance Objectives Language Focus Skills Business communication Key Vocabulary lead-in Reading Homework

Objectives

When the learners finish learning this unit, they should be able to

providing information on company performance

collecting information on company performance

Language focus

Nouns prepositions

Fractions and percentages

Skill

Writing: a company’s report

Reading: Anatomy of an annual report

Listening: Business Skills Focus: presentations

Business Communication

Giving a presentation

Key Vocabulary

management accounts data financial accounts revenue profits losses listed companies annual report FAS MCS TLS ABAS anatomy

Lead-in

1. Ask students what they know about PricewaterhouseCoopers and the services that they offer. A pre-listening exercises focuses attentions on some of the activities that the speaker mentions on the cassette. You may need to go over the answers to this section in order to make sure that students have grasped the main ideas.

2.Students should try to complete the exercise before listening to the cassette.

Words and expression

director: a member of the board chief executive officer: responsible for all

operations stockholder: bought shares in the company chief financial officer: responsible for finance chairperson: in charge of the board auditor: an outside financial specialist

Language Focus Fractions and percentages Fractions:

1.Most fractions are expressed using ordinal numbers 2.There are some exceptions

A half

A quarter

Three quarters

Three and a half

Two and three quarters

Percentages:

When talking about interest rates we say

The central Bank raised/lowered interest rates by a quarter of one percent.(0.25%)

Interest rates are up/down half (of) a percentage point. (0.5%)

Reading

This text is part of an IBM guide to help people to understand how financial information is presented in an annual report. Although this is quite a complex area of business English, this text explains clearly and concisely exactly what types of information can be found in the different parts of an annual report. It is important to point out that this particular document deals with the required and standard sections for American listed companies. As mentioned earlier, each country has its own regulations in matters of accountancy and this also applies to how information is presented in an annual report.

Homework

1. listening to the tape after class.

2.reciting the new words and the text of key vocabulary.

3.writing a composition.