今天的商务英语播客课程是关于酒店预订.
这是我们所有人都需要做的事情: 无论是公司出差, 或个人旅行 – 我们都需要, 在某个时间或另一个时间, 致电酒店预订房间. 当然, 预订不仅适用于酒店，还适用于各种情况 – 会议, 餐馆, 飞机旅行, 以及需要我们提前预订的任何其他类型的活动.
这就是我们将在本集中练习的技能 – 进行预订. 一路上, 我们还将学习入住酒店的词汇.
在聆听中, 莎拉·约翰逊将与丈夫一起去度假. 她给纽约大华酒店的预订柜台打电话, 那里有一名工作人员, 托尼, 拿起电话. 当你听, 注意莎拉使用的语言, 并尝试回答以下问题.
听力问题
1) 莎拉想要什么样的房间?
2) 莎拉还有什么额外要求?
3) 托尼在接受莎拉的预订时犯了一个错误. 它是什么?
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This is the fourth in a series of intermediate business ESL podcasts that focus on business travel. In this series we’re following a group of trainees who work for the telecommunications company Ambient as they visit their head office in Michigan in the U.S.
How do you make friendly chat with your colleagues? What kinds of topics can you talk about? We’ll be looking at some answers. 尤其, we’ll cover informal greetings and how to chat about movies. As almost everyone loves to go to the cinema, movies are usually a good topic for small talk.
As our listening begins, it’s Monday morning. Honesto, a trainee from the Philippines, says hello to his American colleague Brenda as she comes in to the office.
听力问题
1) What does Brenda mean when she says “veg out”?
2) What are critics and what did they think about Rush Hour 3?
3) How does Brenda like her coffee?
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如果没有足够的办公空间供所有员工使用，或者其中许多人通常将大部分时间花在外出旅行或工作上，该怎么办? 在90年代, 一些聪明的经理想出了一个解决方案 – 热桌 – 剩下的就是历史. 热桌服务是指使用为需要他们的员工设置的临时工作区.
随着笔记本电脑和互联网的发明, 我们几乎可以在任何地方工作. 现在, 在全球许多公司中，从高科技软件公司到管理咨询公司，甚至在银行和工程等更传统的行业中越来越多, 一定数量的工作区域 “办公桌。” 只要他们是空的, 任何人都可以在那里工作. 坐下, 插入电脑, 你准备出发了! 在很多人出差的公司, 这是省钱的好方法，因为它将未使用的空间减少到最小.
在这个 商务英语播客 课, 我们将继续我们的商务旅行系列. 我们正在关注Honesto, 来自马尼拉的环境电信员工, 在前往密歇根州总部的培训之旅中, 美国. 本课程的主要语言重点是提出礼貌的要求. 一路上, 我们还将研究表达喜欢和不喜欢的一些不同方式. Honesto找到了自己未使用的桌子，并且突然间遇到一个新邻居，他正在工作, 梅根.
听力问题
1) Honesto和Megan使用什么样的表情来提出礼貌的要求?
2) Honesto参加哪种培训?
3) 梅根来自哪里?
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Continuing our series on ESL for business travel, we rejoin Alan and Honesto on their business trip to the USA. 在 BEP 55 – Airport Departures and Take Off, 艾伦, the main character in our story, and Honesto, his colleague, have left Hong Kong for San Francisco. There they will go through immigration, collect their bags, and change planes to Michigan, which is where their company, 周围, is headquartered.
Immigration is the process you follow to enter a foreign country. So in today’s ESL lesson, you’ll learn helpful travel vocabulary and phrases you can use when you enter the U.S. or other countries.
听力问题
1) What is an I-94 form?
2) How much money can you bring into the U.S.?
3) Where does Alan want to go sightseeing?
4) What does Alan mean by “just pulling your leg?”
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This Business English Podcast lesson is the first in a series of shows that will follow an employee of a manufacturing company on a training trip to the U.S. Over the series, we’ll practice many situations that will be useful for you on your business trips overseas, including going through immigration, renting a car, checking into a hotel, using wireless internet and so on.
The main character in our story is Alan Chen. He works for a major multinational electronics manufacturer, 周围, which is headquartered in Michigan in the USA. Having recently received a promotion, Alan is going to America to learn 6 Sigma, which is a system for improving quality.
Today’s episode starts at the beginning of the business trip with “boarding the airplane.”
听力问题
1) What row are Alan and Honesto sitting in?
2) What should passengers turn off before the plane takes off?
3) What does Alan mean by “murder a scotch.”
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