Drew Corporation, based in Dallas, USA, is an international group supplying food products to the retail trade. It is currently holding its annual planning conference in Mauritius. One of the discussion sessions, entitled 'Succeeding in new markets', is attended by some of the company's top executives. The leader of the session has asked participants to work in small groups and either talk about or provide notes on a recent overseas assignment, focusing on any cultural problems they encountered in their work. In one of the groups, Bob Hewitt talks about an assignment in China, Christina Novak provides notes about her work experience in India and Melissa Petrides writes about a business trip to Russia.
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You are going to hear Bob Hewitt talking about a recent new venture in China.
Listen and answer these questions.
Listen again and note down the mistakes Bob made because of his lack of knowledge of the Chinese market.
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Time for speaking ;)
How would you prepare for a business trip to a country you had never visited before?
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You are going to hear Christina Novak talking about a recent trip to India. She had never done business there before.
Listen and answer these questions.
Listen again and note down the cultural mistakes that Christina made.
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Melissa wrote her impressions of a recent business trip to Russia in her blog. Read the blog below, then, in small groups, analyse and note down the cultural differences which created misunderstanding between Melissa and Georgy Volkov.
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Listen to Galina Koznov, an expert on doing business in Russia.
Compare her comments on what Melissa wrote with the points you noted in Exercise F.
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Speaking Time
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Причастия
-ed - (past - прошедшее) - описывает чувства людей
I'm bored. - Мне скучно. I'm interested. - Я заинтересован.
-ing - (present - настоящее) - описывает качества
It's boring. - Это скучно. It's interesting. - Это интересно
Lesson duration is: 90 min
