أفضل الممارسات البيئية 88 – الاتصال الهاتفي: حجز تذكرة سفر

Booking tickets on the phone is a basic part of business travel. في هذا intermediate Business English Podcast, we will practice useful phrases and language for making travel arrangements on the telephone.

Viva is an Italian manufacturer of ladiesapparel, or clothing. Marco and Francesca, Viva employees, are on a business trip. After visiting customers in the UK, they are now heading to Las Vegas in the United States to meet with their American distributorthe company that sells their product there. Marco calls a travel agent to book tickets for them.

أسئلة الاستماع

1) When does Marco want to leave and when does he want to return? Will he and Francesca be flying first class, business class or economy?
2) Does Marco ask the travel agent tohold the fareor does he pay for it immediately?
3) Does Marco need to pick up his and Francesca’s tickets at the travel agent’s office?

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 87 – المقابلات باللغة الإنجليزية: الحديث عن الإنجازات (2)

BEP 87 - job interview business english

أنت تستمع إلى الجزء الثاني من جزأين اللغة الإنجليزية للأعمال تشغيل سلسلة بودكاست نتحدث عن الإنجازات. هذه واحدة من سلسلة مستمرة من البودكاست مقابلات العمل باللغة الإنجليزية.

موضوع هذه الحلقة والأخيرة هو تقديم أمثلة. في الجزء الأول, نظرنا إلى نسخة سيئة وجيدة لخريج جامعي حديث يتحدث عن نجاحاته الأكاديمية. درسنا كيفية استخدام إنجازاتنا لإظهار المهارات والخصائص التي ستكون جذابة لصاحب العمل المحتمل لدينا.

في هذا الدرس, نقوم بفحص إجابة جيدة أخرى على السؤال حول التجربة السابقة ووصف إنجازاتك. سنبحث عن شخص لديه خبرة وظيفية أكثر بقليل: يالا سانتوس هي أخصائية موارد بشرية تعمل في شركة تصنيع. لديها الآن فرصة لإجراء مقابلة لوظيفة مدير موارد بشرية في وحدة أعمال تابعة لشركة سلع استهلاكية سريعة الحركة, مشروبات المرح الدولية. دعونا نستمع إلى كيفية تعامل يالا مع الحديث عن أعظم إنجاز لها.

عادة, عند الرد على سؤال حول أهم إنجاز لك, من المهم جدًا أن تستعد لسرد قصة منظمة ومفصلة. هذا يعني أن القصة يجب أن تكون منظمة بشكل جيد وأن تتدفق بسلاسة. على الرغم من وجود العديد من الطرق لتقديم عرضك التقديمي, يستخدم Yala نفس التنسيق العام الذي أحب اتباعه.

أسئلة الاستماع

1. ربما تحتاج إلى إعداد القصة من خلال توفير بعض السياق. أين كنت? ما كان الوضع? ما كان على المحك, هذا هو, ما الذي كنت ستخسره أو تكسبه?
2. أعد سرد دورك في الموقف. كيف شاركت?
3. التالي, ناقش ما فعلته, بما في ذلك أي تحليل أو حل مشكلة, أي عملية تقوم بإعدادها, وأي عقبات كان عليك التغلب عليها.
4. اكشف عن النتيجة وما جعلك فخوراً.

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 86 – المقابلات باللغة الإنجليزية: الحديث عن الإنجازات (1)

BEP 86 - business english interview

هذا هو الجزء الأول من جزئين بودكاست اللغة الإنجليزية للأعمال مسلسل على talking about your accomplishments. It is one of an ongoing sequence of podcasts that focus on the job interview process.

Along with your previous experience, your greatest accomplishment is one of the topics that is sure to come up in almost any job interview. This question appears in a variety of forms: What was your proudest achievement? What was your most significant accomplishment? What do you consider to be your greatest success?

No matter how it’s asked, you should be ready with a reply. Interviewers want to hear about something important that you handled. Pick an achievement that is significant to you and that is rich in detail. These two qualities will make it easy to provide examples, which is the main theme of this series.

في هذا الدرس, we’ll be listening to a bad and good version of a recent graduate discussing his greatest accomplishment. We’ll focus on language for providing examples of the positive personal characteristics that our previous success demonstrates. ثم, in Part 2 of this series, we’ll hear another good example of someone with more job experience, and we’ll examine a four-part structure for telling our success stories.

أول, let’s quickly review the bad example. We’ll go back to Alexander’s interview with Michael in the electronics store. كما يمكنك الاستماع, consider the following questions. Then we’ll examine the answers in the debrief.

أسئلة الاستماع

1. Does Alex put his success into an organized, articulate story?
2. Does he present his accomplishment in a way that provides examples of skills and qualities that will be useful at his new job?

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 85 – اللغة الإنجليزية للمبيعات: عرض المنتج غير الرسمي

في هذا البث الصوتي للأعمال الإنجليزية, we’re going to look at the language of presenting your products and services to potential clients in informal situations.

Following on from our episode on hosting a site visit, we return to our friends at the railway tunnel. Stanley Wang is a site agent for a railway construction project in western China. He has just taken Matt and Paul, sales engineers from a small American company, on a tour of the tunnel. الآن, in the evening, Stanley and his boss Bill Zhang are hosting a dinner for Matt and Paula. The group is discussing possibilities for future cooperation.

In many countries and cultures around the world, informal occasionssuch as a friendly meal or a game of a golfare more important to the sales process than a formal presentation in the boardroom. And so in this episode, we’ll be studying language for presenting our products in such casual situations. بخاصة, we’ll see how you can sell your products in relation to your customersneeds with a few soft-sell techniques.

أسئلة الاستماع

1) Were Matt and Paula able to go to the tunnel face, هذا هو, the end of the tunnel?
2) What is the main point of interest that Matt and Paula pursue in the discussion?
3) What are the advantages that Matt and Paula’s device have over traditional surveying methods?

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 84 – اللغة الإنجليزية للمبيعات: زيارة موقع

There are many different kinds of sites. We often speak of construction sites, a site where something is being builtsuch as buildings, roads, bridges, airports, وما إلى ذلك وهلم جرا. But a site can also be a completed structure, like a factory or even sometimes an office. In a site visit, visitors come on site to have a look around. Someone in your company will usually play host and give them a tour. This is often part of the sales process: Sometimes it’s the visitors who are selling something to the host, and sometimes it’s other way around.

The language we’re going to study in this episode will be useful for anyone who needs to host visitors. No matter whether we are giving journalists a demonstration of a factory, or introducing potential customers to our work site, or giving government officials a tour of a construction project, we need to show people around and point out areas of interest.

في الاستماع, Stanley Wang works for China Western Railroad Construction Company. Stanley is the site agent – هذا هو, the person in charge of a construction sitefor a railway tunnel that is being built. Matt and Paulawho work for a small engineering company called TunnelTechare visiting potential customers in China. كما يبدأ الحوار, Stanley is getting ready to take them into the tunnel for a look around.

أسئلة الاستماع:

1) What does Stanley point out in the tunnel? What language does he use to draw everyone’s attention to it?
2) What are the advantages of the machine that Stanley describes?
3) Stanley mentions two safety hazards. ما هم?
4) What is the question that Paula asks Stanley about the hazards?

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