B – Brian, J - Joan

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Unit 1 Manager's role

Audio scripts

Ex. 5 p. 85

Ex. 1 p. 83

Unit 8 Leadership and international business styles

Ex. 1 p.75

Performance appraisal

Ex.2 p.73

Ex. 1 p. 72

Motivation

Unit 7 Motivation and performance appraisal

Ex. 3 p.65

Ex. 2 p.65

Ex. 1 p. 65

Unit 6 Goal-setting

Language focus

1 – l 2 – h 3 – n 4 - b 5 – o 6 – g 7 – p 8 – a 9 – m 10 – e 11 – c 12 – i

13 – k 14 – j 15 – d 16 – f

1 – performance 2 – progress 3 – achieving 4 – report 5 – feedback 6 – objective

7 – role 8 – stage 9 – reach 10 – view

emphasis – stress; features – aspects; expensive – costly; costs – expenses; defects – deficiency; getting rid of – scrapping; warranty – guarantee; goodwill – loyalty; current – present; installing – setting up; resenting – disliking;

lifetime – permanent; to attain – to achieve.

Language focus

1 – f 2 – m 3 – d 4 – g 5 – n 6 – l 7 – k 8 – c 9 – j 10 – a 11 – e 12 – b 13 – i 14 – h

1 – inconclusive 2 – dissatisfied 3 – irresponsible 4 – unpopular 5 – disrespectful

6 – insecured 7 – anti / unsocial 8 – inefficient

Language focus

1 – p 2 – j 3 – h 4 – c 5 – f 6 – k 7 – n 8 – a 9 – l 10 – o 11 – q 12 – i

13 – m 14 – g 15 – d 16 – b 17 – e

Language focus

1 – d 2 – f 3 – g 4 – j 5 – l 6 – i 7 – k 8 – m 9 – b 10 – c 11 – e 12 – h

13 – a

a – 5 b – 3 c – 8 d – 4 e – 1 f – 9 g – 7 h – 2 i – 6

B – How do you do? My name's Brian Robinson.

J – How do you do? I'm Joan Knight.

B – Who do you work for then?

J – I'm with the Palmer Reece group. You may have heard of us. We design and

manufacture electronic equipment. I'm the finance manager.

B – I see.

J – How about you?

B – I work for a firm of kitchen designers. Kitchen interiors, we're called. We install

fitted kitchens, mostly in private houses. I'm Area sales manager.

J – That's interesting! Where are you based?

B- Our head office is in Colchester. We've got branch offices all over the country

. Where is your head office?

J- We're are in Midlands. In Leicester, actually. But I work in our London office.

Have you been with your company long?

B – Fairly long. I've worked for them for five years now. Before that, I was a salesman

for a department store. I must say, I prefer what I'm doing now. You get out and

meet all kinds of people. And I enjoy all the driving too. Your company's pretty

big, isn't it?

J - Mm., I'd say so. Our turnover's almost 50 m pounds. And we've got a work force

of over 1,000. Yes, we are big.

B – My firm's much smaller. Our turnover's roundabout 5 m pounds.

J – How about staff?

B – Oh, about seventy or eighty people – full-time staff, that is. We're a private

company, by the way. Still family-owned. But I reckon we'll go private in a few

years' time.

J - Really? Your firm must be doing well. We're a public company, of course. We

have been for the last thirty years.

B – Ah, I thought, I'd noticed your firm's name when I was looking at the share prices

recently in the newspaper.