Unit 19 Enjoying a business trip
Objectives
Focus
Warm-up (background)
19.1 Saying what you’ve done
16.2 Visiting a factory
16.3 The company report
Sum-up
Assignment
Objectives
When the learners finish learning this unit,
they should be able to
explain leisure and entertainment possibilities
to a visitor,
know how to make offers
know how to thank people
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Focus
Make offers for leisure activities
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Warm-up (background)
More and more companies entertain
guests with leisure activities,e.g,
sightseeing,private boxes at tennis
tournaments,games of golf,etc,
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19.1 Finding out about a city
A,Reading
1,Guessing,to predict vocabulary items they
would expect to occur in the text.
2,Check learners understand all the headings
and then get them to read the article and
match the headings to the paragraphs.
Suggested answer:
1) culture,
2) 2) sightseeing,
3) 3) restaurants,
4) 4) weather,
5) 5) transport,
6) 6) day trips
3,Get the learners to look at the
language box and do a couple of
examples together,Write more
sentences,e.g,
If you are interested in old mining towns,
you should go to Ballarat;
If you are interested in markets,you
should visit the Queen Victoria Market.
B,Listening
1,Ask learners to look at the place names
in their books.
2,Play the recording and get learners to
tick the places mentioned.
3,Play the recording again and get
learners to note a detail for each thing
mentioned.
Suggested answer,
Sightseeing,East Melbourne
Restaurants,Shakahari,Samos Taverna
Shopping,Daimaru
Transport,tram,walk
C,Discussion
1,With the information from the reading
and listening,learners can now work
together to produce a plan of what they
would like to see and do on their free
weekend in Melbourne.
2,When they have finished,ask a few
pairs of learners to tell some others about
what they have chosen to do and why
they would like to do these things.
D,Speaking
Learners make suggestions for a visitor
to their region.
1,Group the students in three or four and ask
them to draw up lists of information that would
be of interest to a visitor to their home town.
2,Compare their lists and talk to each other
about their reasons why they have chosen
such place for the visitors in their home town
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19.2 Making offers,organizing
a visitor’s stay in Bath
A,Presentation and listening
Collocation exercise,ways of making,
accepting and declining offers
1,Explain the situation to the class,Make sure
they understand that they are organizing a
visitor’s free time and arrangements.
2,Ask learners to think about ways in which they
could help a visitor to their company,Match the
verbs to the nouns.
3,Play the recording for the first time for them to
check the collocations.
4,Read the message.
5,Play the recording again and ask learners to
complete the notes.
Suggested answers,(first listening)
Call a taxi / the airport / hotel
Book a hotel / table / seat
Find out about a tour
Reserve a table / seat
Meet you at the airport / totel
Pick you up at the airport / hotel
Suggested answers,(second listening)
Arriving Friday morning at 10
Travelling to Bath by bus from Heathrow
Reserve table for Friday evening
Leave message about time to pick up at hotel
Send Veronica tourist information
B,Language focus
1,Learners write offers for the situations.
---- Shall I … / Would you like me to … /
Do you want me to …
2,Divide the class into pairs,One learner makes
offers,the other accepts or declines them,in
the latter case giving a reason for the refusal.
3,Learners change partners and roles.
Suggested answers,
Shall I/Would you like me to / Do you want me to
1) …get you a taxi?
2) reserve a table?
3) …book you a seat?
4) …find out about tickets?,..book a seat?
5) … call a taxi? … drop you off?
6) …call the station? … find out about train times?
C,Reading and writing
1,Start off with simple scanning questions on the
information leaflet,e.g.
---- Where can you go for a meal?
---- What kind of food does the restaurant serve?
---- How often do the sightseeing tours depart?
---- How much is a ticket for the sightseeing tour?
---- Where can you go swimming?
---- Is there anywhere to play tennis?
---- Where can you see a play?
---- What can you do if you are interested in antiques?
2,Elicit a few offers from learners,e.g.
---- Would you like me to reserve a table at …?
---- Shall I book you a seat on the tour?
3,In pairs,learners decide what they think
Veronica would like to do.
4,Learners write a short letter to Veronica
making suggestions and offering their
help
Suggested answers:
Dear Veronica
Here is some tourist information about Bath.
The bus tour is very good,You can see a lot of the city,
and you can get on and off as you like.
I can recommend The Vaults restaurant,We often
entertain clients there,Do you want me to reserve a
table for you?
Finally,I’m sure you would enjoy Much Ado About
Nothing,It’s very funny,and the Royal Shakespeare
Company is excellent,Would you like me to find out
about tickets?
I look forward to seeing you next week.
Yours,
D,Speaking,free practice of the
language presented in this unit
1,Explain the activity,Use real information in
their situation.
2,Point out ways of introducing an offer,are you
interested in …? etc.
3,Divide the class into hosts and visitors and do
the activity,
4,Change roles and partners if time permit.
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19.3 Thanking
A,Discussion
1,Introduce the activity by eliciting from
learners what guests do to show
appreciation in different countries.
2,Learners read through the article and
compare what is the same and different
with what they know.
B,Language focus
Thank people and take leave in different cultures.
1,In pairs,learners match the phrases to a
suitable reply,They can check their answer
from the recording.
2,Establish the different contexts,e.g,after a
meal,a sporting activity,and to whom the
remarks are made (business partners,
colleagues,etc.)
3,Learners practice the exchange in pairs.
C,Reading
1,Learners read the two letters,One is to a
new business partner and another is to a
friend.
2,Explain some of the language points and
usage of certain expressions in such
case.
D,Writing:
In accordance with reading
1,Get the learners to read the notes,They may
need some assistance in the initial stages of
this exercise.
2,Decide which note is for a new business
partner and which one is for a business friend,
Once aware of the difference in register,they
can concentrate on one type of letter.
3,Remind learners of the sequence,opening,
body of letter and conclusion.
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Sum-up
Finished studying of how to enjoy a
business trip except for business,making
proper offers in different situations,
accept and decline the offers in a polite
way,and at last dealing with the right
ways how to show thankfulness to the
hosts,
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Assignment
Write a bread-and-butter note to your
friend whom you visited last month.
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