目录

  • 1 Unit One 本学期单元作业有部分在Ismart上
    • 1.1 Introduction
    • 1.2 Section I Talking Face to Face
    • 1.3 Section II Being All Ears
    • 1.4 Section III Trying Your Hand
    • 1.5 Section IV Maintaining A Sharp Eye
  • 2 Unit Two
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Section I Talking Face to Face
    • 2.3 Section II Being All Ears
    • 2.4 Section III Trying Your Hand
    • 2.5 Section IV Maintaining A Sharp Eye
  • 3 Unit Three
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Section I Talking Face to Face
    • 3.3 Section II Being All Ears
    • 3.4 Section III Trying Your Hand
    • 3.5 Section IV Maintaining A Sharp Eye
  • 4 Unit Four
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Section I Talking Face to Face
    • 4.3 Section II Being All Ears
    • 4.4 Section III Trying Your Hand
    • 4.5 Section IV Maintaining A Sharp Eye
  • 5 Unit Seven
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Section I Talking Face to Face
    • 5.3 Section II Being All Ears
    • 5.4 Section III Trying Your Hand
    • 5.5 Section IV Maintaining A Sharp Eye
  • 6 Unit Eight
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Section I Talking Face to Face
    • 6.3 Section II Being All Ears
    • 6.4 Section III Trying Your Hand
    • 6.5 Section IV Maintaining A Sjarp Eye
Section II Being All Ears

Being All Ears

1. Learning Sentences for Workplace Communication

1). Listen to ten topic-related sentences for workplace communication and try to remember them.




2). Listen again to the above sentences rearranged in sequence, and then match them with their Chinese translation.




2. Handling a Dialogue

3). Listen to a dialogue and decode the message by finding out the correct choices given in brackets according to what you have heard.


 Jim, Kim, Tom and his friend are waiting for breakfast, lunch, supper in a restaurant. They have been waiting for a long time since they ordered their meal. Kim is angry, worried, sorry and complains that the service is really bad, hard, slow . But his friend thinks that they needn't be in a anger, hunger, hurry , because the waiter, waitress, boss is very busy.

Kim: Where's our food? The service in this place is really slow.

Dan: They seem to be very busy today. I'm sure the waitress didn't forget our order.

Kim: I've got to ask her to hurry things up. I'm thinking of never coming to this restaurant again.

Dan: Relax, Kim. We're not in a hurry. Our food should be here soon.

                 (A few minutes later)

Kim: Waitress. What happened to our order?

Waitress: It will be ready any minute, sir.

Kim: What's holding it up? I gave you our order over twenty minutes ago.

Waitress: I'm sorry. We're very busy.

Kim: I hate to complain, but we're on our lunch hour. Do you think you could speed things up?

Waitress: I'll do my best, sir.

3. Understanding a Short Speech / Talk

4  Listen to a short speech twice and during the second listening, put back the missing words in the blanks.


Ladies and gentlemen

Most welcome to our dinner party. I am Li Minghua, General Manager of Dongfang Electronics Company. I’m so excited to have all of you here tonight. This occasion is very 1 ________, for it marks the first official gathering of the top leaders of the two companies. This event 2 ________ me an opportunity to express my great appreciation of our cooperation in the last 3 ___________.

First of all, I'd like to say that 4 _______ the establishment of our partnership 3 years ago, each partner has had much to offer to 5 ___________. We are so glad to see that both sides have got satisfying 6 ___________ from the partnership. And we are also convinced that through mutual 7 ___________ the relationship between our two companies will 8 ___________ more and more strengthened in the future.

Now let me 9 ________, on behalf of the company, a toast to all the people present here. I wish success to all of you in the coming 10 ___________ meetings. I also wish you a good stay in this city.

    Cheers to your health.