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Present simple and present continuous




Read the following interview with Margi Bogart, Product Marketing Manager at Mindsteps, Inc. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Present Progressive (Continuous) Tense. The first has been done for you.

"I 1 work (work) for Mindsteps, Inc., a start-up firm located in Silicon Valley that 2_____________(develop) human resources management software for large corporations that 3____________(have) at least 2,500 employees. Currently, we 4_____________(market) our main product called CareerSteps which is a software program that 5_____________(help ) employees to assess their interests, values, and skills in order to create a career development plan. More and more corporations 6____________(buy) CareerSteps as a cost-effective solution to the issues that human resources departments 7____________(face), such as staff turnover, motivating workers, and increasing employee productivity. Thanks to the success of an initial pilot project, this year Hewlett-Packard 8____________(make) CareerSteps available to125,000 of their employees around the world. As the Product Marketing Manager, I 9_____________(coordinate) the planning and 10____________(manage) the business and marketing efforts for the product. An important aspect of my job11_____________(involve) making sure the product 12_____________(meet) the marketing requirements once it is completed. At the moment, I 13__________(contact) potential clients and 14_____________(work) on the marketing requirements for the next version of our product. On Tuesday, we15_____________(present) the innovative features of the new version of CareerSteps to our main customers."

 

ANSWER KEY

2 develops 3 have 4 are marketing 5 helps 6 are buying

7 face 8 is making 9 coordinate 10 manage 11 involves

12 meets 13 am contacting 14 am working 15 are presenting

 

 

TOPICAL SPEAKING

TASK 1

I. Working in pairs discuss the following questions under the headings I IV.

2. Give a talk in class on the topic Globalization and the World Market making use of TEXTS A and B as well as exercise 3.

I. The idea of globalization

1. What does the term globalization describe?

2. Does the idea of globalization include only economic integration?

3. When was the word globalization used for the first time?

 

II. Different aspects of globalization

1. What is important for customers in the process of globalization?

2. What changes has globalization made in financial and business spheres?

3. What are the linguistic aspects of globalization?

III. Advantages and disadvantages of globalization

1. What economic opportunities did globalization provide for people and countries?

2. What countries are winners and what counties are losers in the globalization of world markets?

 

IV. Global brands

1. Do you think that a brand is nothing more than a label?

2. Does a brand-name increase market penetration for a company?

3. Why does the spread of a brand cause a real danger for some countries?

 

TASK 2

 

Speak on the topic Russias Integration into the Free-market World: Advantages and Disadvantages at the students scientific conference. Make use of the vocabulary below. (Consult special literature and reference books, if necessary. If you can get access to the Internet, make use of this global network).

1) the countrys share in the world trade
2) to decline to/ by... % / ... %
3) to impose a ban on the imports
4) to lift the ban on the imports
5) liberalization of foreign trade
6) the country has largely benefited from... ...
7) shortage of foreign currency/ of hard currency /
8) to exchange currency
9) trading partners
10) duties on a wide range of commodities
11) to sign a long-term trade agreement
12) to promote exports
13) to expand exports /
14) a sharp rise in the demand for imports  
15) to occupy the... place in the world as to... ... ...  
16) the export prices are stable
17) the statistics for... show an increase/ a fall/ of... % in... ... () // % ...
18) to maintain the price stability
19) trade relations
20) the exports account for... % from the volume of the previous year ... %

 

 

SPEAKING

 

Making Requests

 

Will Would Can Could     you repeat that again, please? close/ open the door/ window, please? tell me the time? help/ show me...?

 

 
 


Do Would   you mind telling me about...? / saying that again?

 

 

Note 1: A request ends with a rising intonation. Please makes your

request more polite and it comes at the beginning or the end.

Note 2: Will you/ Can you are more used between friends and family members to make a simple request. Would you/ could you are used amongst friends when the request is more demanding, and with strangers.

 

Refusing a Request

 

Im sorry (really very sorry), I cant help you.

Im sorry, I havent got time to....

Accepting a Request

Yes, certainly. Anything else?

Yes, of course.

Sure, I will. (esp. AmE)

 





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