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Upper intermediate
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Unit 6: Leading meetings
| 5. | Five alternative approaches successful companies have taken to the problem of meetings are listed below. What do you think they might involve? | |
| a. the non-stop meeting | ||
| b. the mobile meeting | ||
| c. the recreational meeting | ||
| d. the democratic meeting | ||
| e. the virtual meeting | ||
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| 6. | Listen to an extract from a business news programme and match the approaches in 5 to the companies that have adopted them. |
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| Federal Express | ||
| another.com | ||
| Xerox Corporation | ||
| Michaelides & Bednash Media | ||
| St. Luke's Advertising | ||
7. |
Could any of the ideas in 6 work in your company? Would any be thought ridiculous? | |
| Unit 8: Promoting your ideas | ||
| 5. | Two managers for MaxOut, an American chain of fitness centres, are presenting a new business idea to their board of directors. Listen to three extracts from their presentation and answer the questions. | |
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1.40MB | Extract 1 |
| a. | Put the following stages of the first part of the presentation in chronological order. |
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| quote statistics | ||
| build up expectations | ||
| pose a problem | ||
| introduce themselves | ||
| thank the audience | ||
| set a challenge | ||
| share corporate vision | ||
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Are the presenters successful at arousing the curiosity of their audience? Why (not)? | |
| c. | The following figures were quoted. What do they refer to? |
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| 1,000 ___________________________________________ | ||
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250,000 ___________________________________________ |
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7/10 ___________________________________________ |
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4/10 ____________________________________________ |
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61% (122m) _________________________________________ |
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| d. | On a scale of 1-5, how confident did the presenters sound? Would their presentation style be popular in your company? | |
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1.16MB | Extract 2 |
| a. | What do these figures refer to? Do you find them surprising? | |
| a mere 13% ____________ | ||
| a staggering 92% ____________ | ||
| b. | What do you think 'mere' and 'staggering' mean? | |
| c. | Complete the following extract from the presentation. | |
| We did a nationwide su_____ of people who had previously shown an in_____ in joining a MaxOut club and then changed their mi_____. Full de_____ are in the re_____ in front of you, but this chart hi_____ our main fi_____. | ||
| d. | Complete the chart, which shows the results of the survey referred to in c. Nationwide survey |
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| e. | What product do you think the speakers are about to present? | |
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1.50MB | Extract 3 |
| a. | What is the product? | |
| b. | How much of the project budget was spent on making the prototype? | |
| c. |
How long his it taken to develop? | |
| d. | Complete the product features chart. |
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| e. | What's the main selling point? | |
| f. | In what ways do you think the product would benefit MaxOut's main business? | |
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