English for Exports I: Talking about your Company

WARM-UP: WORD CLOUD

a. Can you find ten words connected with the exports industry? 

b. Using some of these words, write short sentences describing your company's business.
For example: We ship goods to different markets. 

Task 1: Reading

a.  

A report shows the best 25 companies in the USA to work for. Top of the list is Google. It is famous for excellent working conditions. Facebook was number one last year. A Google software engineer gets very good money. One old Google employee said staff are so happy that they rarely take holidays.

A different survey shows a different number one: the consulting firm Bain and Company is the best. Bain and Co. is very proud. It is a very professional company with over 40 years. Their staff want to make their clients around the world happy.

b. Reading Comprehension: Take this online quiz to check understanding
  
Multiple Choice online quiz



Task 2: Listening & Writing

a. Timeline - Famous Companies: Watch the following videos 

b. Giving descriptions and facts about these famous companies. 
Go to this google slide and write a short description: 

//docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O2OgpXsyvoFpIf_K_E-te6fDOToBDpn9eUbjnP7jKsw/edit?usp=sharing 


Task 3: Speaking 

a. Voicethread: Leave a message answering the two questions about your company and your responsibilities. 

The Importance of Communication

1. Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the purposeful activity of information exchange between two or more participants in order to convey or receive the intended meanings through a shared system ofsigns and semiotic rules. 

Using at least 5 of the words from the cloud, write about the importance of interpersonal communication at your job. 

2. In the 20th century, the style of news and its impact on national populations expanded considerably with constant live broadcasting of radioand television, and finally, with the popularization of the internet.News is packaged information about current events happening somewhere else; or, alternatively, news is that which the news industry sells. 

Breaking News Stories: have a look at the timeline, choose two of the historical events and analyse the way the announcements are made: the selection of words, the tone, the setting, etc. 

3. Voicethread: The Importance of Nonverbal Communication

4. Talkgroup: What is your opinion? 
http://www.voxopop.com/group/96782ce8-edf7-4a80-aa29-b4a3823a49a6

Introduction: Stress Management

voki: Have you ever felt like him? Could you help him?

Stress Management - Overview

Topic Overview 

What is "stress"? Definition: stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that "demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize." In short, it's what we feel when we think we've lost control of events.

• What is your definition of stress? 

Stressful Jobs

Stressful Jobs 

Some jobs, by definition, tend to be higher stress — such as ones that are in dangerous settings (fire, police), that deal with demanding customers (service providers), that have demanding time pressures (healthcare), and that have repetitive detailed work (manufacturing) — but stress is not limited to any one particular job or industry.

• Slideshare: Most stressful Jobs  

Giving your opinion: Which of the following areas in your company are the most stressful ones?  Have a look at the photographs and decide. 

• Flickr: Stressful jobs?

Work Stress Causes

Work Stress: Causes 
Several studies have shown that these are the top 10 work stresses: 

1. Workload
2. Feeling undervalued
3. Deadlines
4. Type of work people have to do
5. Having to take on other people's work
6. Lack of job satisfaction
7. Lack of control over the working day
8. Having to work long hours
9. Frustration with the working environment
10. Targets

• Do you agree? Would you add any other? 

Alternative Anti-Stress Therapies

• Have you tried any of these therapies? Would you dare?