Unit 1 - Complementary Activities

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Before you read 
Is it part of your career plan to work abroad one day? If you have 
worked abroad, was it good for your career? Why? I Why not? 
Reading 
Read this article from the Financial Times by Rhymer Rigby and 
answer the questions. 
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Working abroad 
By Rhymer Rigby 
A period overseas is seen by 
many as an important addition to 
your CY. But how do you make 
sure that it really works to your 
5 advantage? 
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"Think carefully about the 
job," says executive coach, 
Nicola Bunting. "Does it fit i n 
with your career goals or are you 
10 being attracted by the l ifestyle? 
Also before you go, you need 
to have a re-entry plan." Kevan 
Hall, chief executive of the 
i nternational people management 
15 group, G lobal Integration, says 
you shouldn't underestimate 
the culture shock. "Go out there 
beforehand. See what you ' re 
getting into." 
2 
20 Nigel Parslow, UK managing 
director of Harvey Nash executive 
search, says staying where you 
are may not be possible if you 
work for an organisation that has 
25 overseas operations. He adds that 
the experience you gain is also 
very attractive. 
3 
The biggest is family. This 
can be particularly hard for 
30 people in the middle of their 
careers who may have children 
at school. Ms Bunting says: 
"There's your partner's career 
too. Some people's spouses try 
35 and commute back and I 'd really 
advise against this as it makes an 
already stressful situation even 
more difficult." 
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Mr Hall says: "There's 
4U been a power shift to Asia, and 
that, coupled with low growth in 
America and Europe, means that 
particularly if you're ambitious 
you might want to spend some 
45 time there." 
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Many people say two to 
three years. But this will vary 
according to the country and 
organisation. Mr Parslow thinks 
so that if you spend too long abroad, 
you can end up with a not entirely 
positive expat* label attached to 
you. 
• An cxpat is someone who lives and 
works abroad . often for a long period. 
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1 Find the correct place in the article for each 
of these questions. 
a) Is there an ideal length of time?
b) What about the destination?
c) What are the advantages and d isadvantages?
d) What are the personal considerations?
e) What should I consider before I go?
2 look through the whole article and match
each person 1-3 with their organisation 
a)-c), and their opinions/advice i)-viii). 
(Each person has more than one opinion/ 
piece of advice.) 
1 Nicola a) 
Bunting 
2 Kevan b) 
Hall 
3 Nigel c) 
Parslow 
Global 
Integration 
Harvey Nash 
not 
mentioned 
i) 
ii) 
iii) 
iv) 
Don't stay abroad 
too long. 
Make sure the 
overseas job 
suits your career 
goals. 
Think about your 
partner's career. 
Don't 
underestimate 
the culture 
shock. 
v) You may have
no choice about
going abroad or
not.
vi) Think about what
you will do when
you get back.
vii) Go to work in
Asia.
viii) Go to the place
beforehand to
check it out.
3 Read paragraph 2 and decide if these
statements about expressions are true or 
false. 
If you ... 
a) consider if a job fits in with your career goals
(lines 8-9), you think about the long-term
consequences of taking the job.
b) go to work abroad and have a re-entry plan
(line 12), you have an idea about what you are
going to do when you get back.
c) underestimate something (line 16), you give it
more importance that it really has.
d) suffer from culture shock (line 17), you find it
easy to get used to another culture.
e) get into a situation (line 19), you get involved
in it.
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4 When you work overseas, ... the experience 
you gain is ... very attractive. (lines 26-27) 
Attractive to whom? 
5 Find the answers to these questions in 
paragraphs 4, 5 and 6. Start your answers 
with Because ... 
When considering a job abroad ... 
a) why is it especially hard for people in the middle
of their careers?
b) why should married people consider the issues
carefully?
c) why is it a bad idea for the husband or wife to
commute back to the home country?
d) why is Asia a good place to go and work for a
while?
e) why is it a good idea not to stay there too long?
Over to you 1 
Imagine that a colleague of yours is going to work or 
study abroad for two years. What advice would you give 
them? 
Over to you 2 
Some say that the business world is becoming more or 
less the same everywhere, and that people should have 
less and less trouble adjusting to work in a new country. 
Do you agree or disagree? Give your reasons. 
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Before you read 
In a performance review or performance appraisal, your boss tells you 
how well you are doing your job, and things that you must improve. 
Are these reviews useful? Why? I Why not? 
If you're a student, what forms of appraisal are there for your work? 
Reading 
Read this article from the Financial Times by lucy Kellaway and 
answer the questions. 
FT 
It's time to sack job appraisals 
By Lucy Kellaway 
Last week an e-mail went round 
the office asking for suggestions 
on ways to improve our 
performance appraisal system. 
5 My suggestion is dead easy and 
dirt cheap: get rid of the whole 
thing and replace it with nothing 
at all . 
Over the past 30 years, I 
10 have been appraised 30 times 
- as banker, journalist and non­
executive director. I ' ve lived 
through the fashion for long, 
complicated forms. I 've also 
15 survived the fashion in which 
appraisals are called "career 
chats". I've done appraisals 
across a table, on a sofa, even 
over a meal. 
20 But I have never learnt 
anything about myself as a result. 
I have never set any target that I 
later hit. Instead I always feel as 
if l am playing a particularly bad 
25 party game that isn't fun and that 
doesn't answer the most basic 
question: am I doing a good job? 
The resulting form is then put on 
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file even though you know from 
30 experience how much attention 
will be paid to it later: none at a l l . 
At least I ' ve only had to 
suffer one side of the process. I 
have never - thank goodness -
35 had to appraise anyone else. This 
must be even worse, as you have 
to pe1fonn the same operation 
with each employee in tum. You 
have to let people believe they are 
40 doing more or less okay, because 
it's too tiring to tell them that they 
aren't doing okay at all . 
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1 Read through the whole article. Is the writer 
for or against job appraisals? 
2 Complete the table with words from 
paragraphs 1, 2 and 3. 
verb noun 
suggest 
improvement 
appraise 
replacement 
survival 
target 
answer 
file 
experience 
3 Now match the nouns in Exercise 2 to their
definitions. 
a) what you give when someone asks a question
b) when something gets better
c) something that takes the place of another
d) the act of giving an opinion about someone or
something
e) something that you aim at or for
f) advice about what to do
g) sheets of paper with information, kept together
h) knowledge of what has happened in the past
i) continuing to exist, despite difficult conditions
4 Choose the correct alternative to complete 
these statements about the expressions in 
italic from paragraphs 2 and 3. 
a) If something is dead easy ( l ine 5), it is ...
i) not so easy.
ii) very easy.
iii) quite easy.
b) If something is dirt cheap (line 6), it is ... 
i) very cheap.
ii) quite cheap.
iii) not at all cheap.
c) If you get rid of something (line 6), you ...
i) keep it.
ii) throw it away.
iii) prevent it.
d) If you live through something (lines 12-13), you ...
i) experience it.
ii) ignore it.
iii) realise it.
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e) If something is complicated (line 14), it is ...
i) easy.
ii) nice.
iii) difficult.
f) A chat (line 17) is a type of ...
i) speech.
ii) interview.
iii) conversation.
Match the verbs from paragraph 3 with the 
things that they go with. 
1 learn a) a party game
2 set b) something on file
3 play c) a basic question
4 answer d) a target
5 put e) attention to
something
6 pay f) something about
yourself
Read paragraphs 3 and 4 and decide if these 
statements are true or false. 
The writer of the article ... 
a) found out things about herself thanks to job
appraisals.
b) set targets for herself, but didn't hit them.
c) compares job appraisals with party games.
d) has found out if she has done a good job during
job appraisals.
e) has done job appraisals of people working for
her.
f) thinks that it's easy to tell people that they are
not performing well.
Over to you 1 
After reading the article, do you think that performance 
appraisals are a) less useful, or b) more useful than you 
did before you read it? Give your reasons. 
Over to you 2 
Give suggestions on how to tell an employee in a 
performance appraisal that their work is not good 
enough. 
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l3 There is one word missing in each of the expressions below. Put the missing word into each 
expression. 
1 Could I speak Ken Wu, please?
2 This Pedro Casas in Buenos Aires.
3 I 'm calling our latest order. 
4 Could you transfer to the production department, please?
5 Could you ask him call me back? 
6 Can I leave message, please? 
7 Could you tell what it's about?
8 I'll put through. 
9 Can I get him call you?
10 I can transfer to his voicemail. 
Work in pairs. Rearrange the two parts of this phone conversation into a logical order. 
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A Hello. 
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B Hello. Is this Kiev Agro? 
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A Yes, that's right. 
B Could I speak to Ludmila Sharapova, please? 
A Who's calling, please? 
B Anton Schmidt at EFG Chemicals in Dresden. 
A Could you tell me what it's about? 
B I'm a supplier and I'm calling about our contract. 
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A I ' l l put you through ... I'm afraid there's no answer. Can I get her to call you? 
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B Yes, please. She has my number, I think, but here it is just in case: 00 49 351 ...
A 00 49 351...
B 489 00 01.
A 00 49 351 489 00 01.
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B That's it. Could you get her to call me back as soon as possible. It's very urgent. 
A OK, no problem. I'll do that. Goodbye. 
B Thanks. Goodbye. 
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a �ll) (01.4 Listen to part one and match the two parts of these expressions.
1 finance channels 
2 television channels 
3 music business 
4 child ren's business 
5 movie channels 
6 chocolate· pudding director 
IJ Now put the expressions from Exercise A into these groups.
a) TV programmes b) jobs c) types of company
II �>)) (01.4, 1.5 Listen to parts one and two and replace the verbs in italic with infinitive forms of
verbs that Melissa Foux actually uses. (One of the verbs she uses is a multiword verb.) 
1 transfer from sector to sector 
2 do a subject at university
3 perform an internship 
4 gain an understanding of something 
5 begin as an auditor 
6 obtain a job 
Iii �>l) C01.6, 1.7 Listen to parts three and four. Choose the correct alternative to replace the
expression in italic so as to keep the closest meaning. 
1 ... I think the thing that stands out is, really, not to overcomplicate things. 
a) make things easier b) make things too difficult c) keep things the same
2 Especially in the finance world, people can get bogged down in a lot of detail, ...
a) up to their ankles in b) tiring out by c) overloaded with
3 ... and it's important to try and maintain clarity and always be able to see above all the 
numbers ... 
a) keep things clear b) keep things interesting c) keep things difficult
4 What I found, in coming across people who have applied for positions in the companies I've 
worked in, ... 
a) meeting b) interviewing c) employing
5 ... is the key difference is, people who've done a lot of research on the companies that they've 
applied to. 
a) asked for more information about
b) asked to join
c) asked to leave
6 So I say, research is the key. 
a) the least important thing
b) one of the most important things
c) the most important thing
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