商务英语听说第一册课件李玉萍 ISBN9787811344035 PPTProgramme 2.pptVIP

Programme 2 Entertaining Business Partners Teaching objectives ● Learn how to invite a visiting client to dinner; ● Know about the etiquette over dinner; ● Learn to arrange some entertaining activities of local characteristic; ● Practice listening for specific information; Introduction Entertaining business partners plays a very important role in establishing and maintaining a good relationship with our business partners. There are many choices as to how to entertain our business partners. For example, taking your partners out to a nice dinner is a basic and expected part of entertaining. You could also entertain your partners with a round or two of golf. Besides, a city tour, a visit to a sports event, an evening at the theater or shopping trip, especially for some female partners are also listed as the top choices.. Introduction When choosing the way to entertain our business partners we should take our partners’ age, education, cultural background as well as their interests and hobbies into consideration. It’s advisable that we should avoid talking about politics, religion and some topics involving privacy in the process of entertaining our foreign business partners. In this unit, examples are given as to how Beihai Foreign Trade Company entertains a foreign business partner, Mr. Rodgers. Case 1 You are the manager of a trade company and you are having dinner with your business partner, Mr. Young from ABC Company in America, who is on a business trip to China. Talk about the your cooperation. Case 2 You are the secretary of Mr. Zhang, the General Manager of Great Wall Company. You are inviting Mr. Stone, your business partner to dinner on behalf of Mr. Zhang. Case 3 You are an interpreter. You are accompanying your foreign client, Ms. Black, in a shop where Chinese artifacts are sold. Ms. Black wants to buy some traditional Chinese artifacts as gifts for her friends. Listen and fill in the blanks in thedialogue of the text Conversation