体验商务英语第4册Unit1.ppt

Unit 1 Communication Warm Up drums pigeon post semaphore smoke signals Morse code telephone newspaper radio television internet painting sculpture music language body language dance Every thing that can be said can be said clearly. —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Australian philosopher Discussing What are the three most important criteria of a good communicator? native speakers VS non-native speakers What other factors are important for communication? Vocabulary articulate coherent eloquent fluent focused extrovert persuasive responsive sensitive succinct hesitant inhibited rambling reserved Reading Discussing What do you think about using E-mail in companies, what is the upsides and downsides? New words Hard nut to crack : have great difficult to deal with Repercussion: an indirect and usually bad result of an action or event that may happen some time afterwards. Similar to consequence Eg: The collapse of the company will have repercussion for the whole industry. New words Logistic nightmare: a terrible thing to deal with in logistic. duplicating: to do sth again, especially when it is unnecessary. bombard sb with sth: to attack sb with a lot of questions, criticisms, ect. or by giving them too much information Exercise put it in a : to summarize briefly To get straight to the :to talk about the most important thing To hear it on the : to hear about sth passed from one person to another. To put you in the : to give the latest information, to tell someone the facts about a situation: His lawyer put him in the picture about what had happened since his arrest. To be on the same : to share similar opinions and ideas Can’t make head or of it: to fail to understand anything To beat about the beat around the bush 和 beat about the bush 是“拐弯抹