大学核心商务英语读写教程 Unit 1
LOOKING FOR A JOB
TEXT A
Finding the Best Jobs for Your Personality Type
TEXT B
Four Job Hunter Horror Stories
TEXT C
The Shell Oil Company Interview Experience
job advertising.
About This Unit
Finding a job is the initial and the most important step to get into the business world. This unit will focus on the techniques on how to hunt for a job. Text A illustrates the major elements which deserve consideration when one is looking for a job. Text B tells four horror stories which contain some negative sides one may experience when looking for a job. Though unavoidable, the experience may also a positive factor for one when he is considering the next opportunity. Text C is the interview process of Shell Oil Company in which elements for the management to consider when recruiting new members.
Background Information
Job hunting, job seeking, or job searching is the act of looking for employment, due to unemployment or discontent with a current position. The immediate goal of job seeking is usually to obtain a job interview with an employer which may lead to getting hired. The job hunter or seeker typically first looks for job vacancies or employment opportunities. The following steps are usually involved in hunting a job:
1) Locating jobs
2) Researching the employers
3) Applying
4) Interviewing
Text A
Text B Text C
OBJECTIVES
1. To get familiar with voabuarly on job hunting. 2. To learn interview skills. 3. To simulate an interview situation 4. To master the writing skills on resume and
大学核心商务英语读写教程 u1-B
business or an institution
Example:
Price increases may be prevented by rationing and other administrative controls. 物价上涨通过定量配给和其它行政措施是可以防止的。
Business Terms
4. CV CV, or Curriculum vitae is a latin expression which can be loosely translated as [the] course of [my] life. A curriculum vitae (also spelled curriculum vitæ ) provides an overview of a person's life and qualifications. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment.
★ Answering the telephone ★ Sending out and receiving mail and packages ★ Writing, editing, and preparing electronic documents (often using word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation computer software) ★ Sending faxes ★ Filing documents ★ Data Entry ★ Research ★ Ordering and receiving food deliveries
商务英语阅读教程Unit 1
1 All organizations create products for customers. Thus all organizations have a number of similarities that relate to the activities necessary to create goods and services. It is the role of production and operation management to acquire the necessary resources to create that product, to plan the specific steps through which those resources must pass to become a finished product and to make sure the product conforms to the standards of appearance, performance and reliability. conform, 使一致,使遵守
D. international trade _______________________
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Unit Introduction
8. tell you exactly what you need to do to meet the ISO 9001∶2000 Quality Management Standard.
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Unit Introduction
Check that you understand the following
professional words or expressions. Most of them are common when they are introduced in general English. But they would have particular meanings when they are used to describe production and operation
大学商务英语综合教程unit 1
Grade Evaluation
• Exams: Final 70% (Based on lecture notes and the text)
• Class activity and your attendance for each class is required: 30%
Toyota
Think out as many words, phrases or expressions as possible about business from the event of Toyota’s recalls.
exchange, hotel, restaurant, bank;
Other Terms Frequently Used in Business Operation:
Sell, buy, goods, order, profit, interest, invoice, check, bill, consumer, customer.
The outline of the course
1. Business and economy —— Business sectors and Industries — — Companies (CSR and Business Ethics)
2. Marketing (Marketing strategy/ Integrated Marketing/ direct marketing/ positioning/ personal selling/ AIDA/FABV/SWOT/Branding/ 4Ps)
The Nature of Business
Business is the human activity related涉及 to material things. It is necessary for civilization. It is found in all societies, even the simplest ones. Business may include the production of goods: Making airplanes, building buildings, and constructing构成 paper boxes are examples of production. It can also provide the financing 理财融资 for these activities. Lending money, trading stocks股份and bonds有息债券, and selling insurance保险policies relate to the securing获得 of capital资本for business activities. Other forms of business include merchandising买卖 , which is the selling of products, and providing various services, such as accounting会计, distributing分发 , and repairs. Business, then, is the activity of producing and distributing goods and services.
新核心大学英语读写教程1 The March of Dimes ppt
Present Day Mission
• After the eradication(根除) of polio, the March of Dimes mission(官方使命) evolved(逐渐形成) to preventing premature births and helping sick infants. Its slogan is “working together for stronger, healthier babies.” The organization raises money for research and education to decrease the number of unhealthy babies.
Name Origin
• According to the the March of Dimes,its current name originated from comedian Eddie Cantor who coined the phrase using a pun of the then-popular “March of Time” newsreel(新闻短片). He used the rationale(合理的) that anyone could spare a dime. The first March of Dimes fundraising campaign raised over 2.8 million dimes that were sent directly to the White House.
History
• The March of Dimes was founded by President Franklin D.Roosevelt in 1938. According to the National Museum of American History,the original name of the March of Dimes was the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis(小儿 麻痹症). The original purpose was to fight and cure polio. In 1955,Jonas Salk invented a cure for polio using money donated to his research by the March of Dimes.
大学核心商务英语读写教程3 Unit 1 Electronic-Business_49
For Haier, logistics management has a pivotal role.
对于海尔来说,物流管理有着举足轻重的作用。
4. Words and Expressions
(3) potential /pətenəl/ n.
ere
Meaning Example
3. Business Terms
Phillips Exeter Academy 菲利普斯埃克塞特学院
Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9–12 and postgraduates, located on 619 acres (2.51 km2) in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, 50 miles (80 km) north of Boston.
4. Words and Expressions
(2) pivotal /'pivətl/ adj.
ere
Meaning
being of crucial importance;central and important
Example
Standards are pivotal to the success of digital wallets.
entrepreneurship.
3. Business Terms
Harvard University 哈佛大学
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the Uniton (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country.
大学核心商务英语读写教程4Unit 1 Business Education
大学核心商务英语读写教程4Unit 1 Business Education
Objectives
1
To know something about the
business education
2
To get familiar
with different type of business programs
3. Business terms
❖ 2. Internship
Internships may be part-time or full-time; typically they are part-time during the university year and full-time in the summer, and they typically last 6–12 weeks, but can be shorter or longer. Internship positions are available from businesses, government departments, non-profit groups and organizations. Due to strict labour laws, European internships are mostly unpaid. Interships are very popular to gain international exposure on one’s resume and for foreign language improvement.
It is very difficult to integrate into another culture.融 入另外一种文化很困难。
新核心大学英语读写教程1翻译答案—Unit1
Unit 1 Freshman Convocationplete the following sentences.1)Many “intellectual ghosts”showed a total disregard for(表现出完全超越的态度) the accepted boundaries between different field of knowledge.2)Da Vinci made painstakingly precise observations of everything and put to use everything he learned(把一切学以致用).3)Many MIT faculty members are crazy about multidisciplinary thinking (酷爱跨学科思考) . For example, professors from the climate science political science departments collaborate creatively with the subject of economics (创新地与经济学合作) to find solutions for the demand for new energy sources.4)The second facet of da Vinci’s character that fits with MIT (与MIT一致) is his respect for and curiosity of nature (他对大自然的敬重与好奇) ,both as a scientist and an engineer.5)Students at first class universities will encounter a great many extraordinary teachers, perhaps the most stimulating minds and inspiring models (最激情飞扬的大师和启迪智慧的楷模) they will ever know.6)There is a good chance that the students will never live and work in a community with as rich as many different cultures and backgrounds (大批不同文化与背景者) as they will at MIT.3.Translate the following Chinese sentences into English.1)大学新生将会发现大学是一个启迪他们研究、学习、成长的地方。
大学核心商务英语读写教程UnitForeignCurrenciesandExchangeRates
Rates
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ObjectivesFra bibliotekTo know something about foreign exchange
To get familiar with business writing
To learn new words and expressions
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1. Background Information
¡The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a worldwide decentralized over-the-counter financial market for the trading of currencies. Financial centers around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers around the clock, with the exception of weekends.
To master how to analyze
difficult and long sentences
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Text A Foreign Exchange Market
1. Background Information 2. Introduction to the Text 3. Business Terms 4. Words and Expressions 5. Notes to the Text
大学核心商务英语读写教程unitLogisticsandLogisticalManagement
4. Words and Expressions
⑴ logistics /ləu'dʒistiks/ n.
ere
Meaning
practical arrangements that are needed to make a complicated plan successful when a lot of people and equipment is involved
2. Introduction to the Text
文体 特征 分析
本商务语篇为说明文体。
物流的概念最早是在 形成的,当初被称为Physical Distribution( 即PD),译成汉语是“实物分配”或“货物配送”。 我国是在80 年代才接触物流这个概念的,此时的物流已被称为Logistics,已 经不是过去PD的概念。
1. Background Information
The advent of the information age witnesses tremendous changes in all sectors of industry. Although logistics is not a newly born concept, it keeps pace with time, extending its denotative and connotative meanings. Deriving from Physical Distribution, logistics nowadays has expanded into an integration concept with the character of being consumer-oriented. However, it is hard to define logistics to show all its attributes because of its comprehensiveness.
新核心大学英语读写教程基础级 Unit 1
Parents play an important role in their children’s learning. All these factors played an important role in the disaster of 1940. ② among others used when mentioning one or more examples All they want are “good” jobs which could offer, among others, good salary, comfortable working conditions, and high social status.
Glossary for Main Reading
Nouns □ finance □ intellectual □ campus □ reputation □ curriculum □ philosophy □ consequence □ frame □ debate □ sociology □ forcefulness □ challenge
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
The University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University
Yale University
Tasks
• Wall Street • Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or signifying New York-based financial interests.
