商务英语阅读Unit 16-叶兴国.ppt

UNIT 16 2014.12 Business English: A Reading Course BACKGROUND INFORMATION I. Competition among corporations turns to knowledge and skills. II. Competition among corporations is that of employees’ qualities. BACKGROUND INFORMATION III. How to handle employees is the key to a corporation’s success. 1. to be humble to win support; 2. good at collecting ideas bringing out the best of everyone on your staff; 3. concerned with the interests of the staff. How to handle employees is a great challenge. The greatest obstacle is communication. WARM-UP QUESTIONS 1. Suppose you were a boss, how would you handle your men in the office so as to make business prosperous? 2. In a community of people from all over the world with different cultures and languages, such as a multinational, what can you do to help them to overcome the difficulties in communication? Business English: A Reading Course * READING SKILLS: INTRODUCE THE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT BUSINESS ENGLISH READING Business English: A Reading Course 评论性阅读：读者在正确理解作品的基础上,对作品做出鉴别、判断、评论。 有效的评论性阅读三步骤： 1. 理解文本： 标志着观点出现的词语： 2. 评价文本： 3. 做出反应： Notes on the Text: 1. That doesn’t mean that you ought to coddle idleness, or to be slack with viciousness, or even to carry on the pay-roll well-meaning incompetence. 那并不是说你应该纵容懒惰，或疏忽恶意，甚至给善良但不胜任的员工发放薪水。 Business English: A Reading Course TEXT A： HANDLE YOUR MEN IN THE OFFICE Notes on the Text: 2. For a fellow who mixes business and charity soon finds that he can’t make any money to give to charity; and in the end, instead of having helped others, he’s only added himself to the burden of others. 对一个把企业和慈善机构混淆起来的人来说，他很快就会发现赚不到任何钱捐给慈善机构了，并且最后他不但不能帮助别人，自己反而成了他人的负担。 Business English: A Reading Course TEXT A： HANDLE YOUR MEN IN THE OFFICE Notes on the Text: 3. …sits around waiting to be hunted up. ……坐等被人发现。 4. Indiscriminate blame is as bad as undiscriminating praise—it only makes a man tired. 不分青红皂白的指责和不加区别的褒奖一样，是不可取的—只会使人感到厌烦。 Business English: A Reading Course TEXT A： HAND