Booking tickets on the phone is a basic part of business travel. 在這個 intermediate Business English Podcast, we will practice useful phrases and language for making travel arrangements on the telephone.
Viva is an Italian manufacturer of ladies’ apparel, 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 distributor – the company that sells their product there. Marco calls a travel agent to book tickets for them.
聽力問題
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 to “hold the fare” or does he pay for it immediately? 3) Does Marco need to pick up his and Francesca’s tickets at the travel agent’s office?
Along with yourprevious 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.
在本課中, 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. 然後, 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.
第一的, let’s quickly review the bad example. We’ll go back to Alexander’s interview with Michael in the electronics store. 當你聽, consider the following questions. Then we’ll examine the answers in the debrief.
聽力問題
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?