Learning Sentences for Workplace Communication
1. Listen to ten topic-related sentences for workplace communication and try to remember them.

Notes:
special 特色菜 service charge 服务费 tip (付)小费
2 Listen again to the above sentences rearranged in sequence, and then match
them with their Chinese translation.
1) a.您要来点饮料吗?
2) b.要给服务员小费吗 ?
3) c.可以点菜了吗?
4) d.请把账单给我。
5) e.请把菜单和酒给我。
6) f.我想预定今晚6点4个人的餐位。
7) g.今天你们的特色菜是什么?
8) h.附近有海鲜餐厅吗?
9) i.服务费是多少?
10) j.你推荐什么菜?
3. Listen to ten English sentences for workplace communication and match them with their Chinese translation.
Column A Column B
1) A.请给我来一杯啤酒.
2) B. 我今天想吃清淡一点的菜。
3) C.我想预定周五晚上六个的人餐位。
4) D. 这张桌子空着吗?
5) E. 您喜欢吃什么,肉还是鱼?
6) F. 您想喝点什么吗?
7) G. 要尝尝海鲜吗?
8) H. 现在可以点菜吗?
9) I. 服务员,请把账单给我。
10) J. 请给我看一下菜单。
Handling a dialogue
4. Listen to a dialogue and decode the message by finding out the correct choices in shade according to what you have heard.
1 Jim, Kim, Tom and his friend are waiting for 2 breakfast, lunch, supper in a restaurant. They have been waiting for a long time since they ordered their meal. Kim is 3 angry, worried, sorry and complains that the service is really 4 bad, hard, slow. But his friend thinks that they needn’t be in a 5 anger, hunger, hurry, because the 6 waiter, waitress, boss is very busy.
6. Listen to the dialogue for the last time and fill in the blanks according to what you have heard.
Kim: Where’s our food? The service in this place is really slow.
Dan: 1____________________________. I’m sure the waitress didn’t forget our order.
Kim: I’ve got to ask herto hurry things up. I’m thinking of never coming to this restaurant again.
Dan: Relax, Kim. We’re notin a hurry. 2 ________________________. (A few minutes later)
Kim: Waitress.What happened to our order?
Waitress: 3___________________________.
Kim: What’s holding it up? I gave you our order over twenty minutes ago.
Waitress: I’m sorry. 4 ________________ .
Kim: I hate to complain, but we’re on our lunch hour. Do you think you could speed things up?
Waitress: 5_________________.
Understandling a short speech/talk
7. 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.
8. Listen to the short speech again and match the information in Column A with the choices in Column B.



