应用英语教程视听说3 教案 Unit 4 Business Frontier.pdf

Unit 4 Business Frontier Lead-in 1. 1. b 2. d 3. a 4. c 5. f 6. i 7. j 8. e 9. h 10. g 2. 1. bolster 2. volume 3. unveiled 4. consecutive 5. metaverse 6. convergence 7. interventions 8. outsource 9. warehouse 10. transparency 3. 1. Consumer is number one. 2. Their shoes are of good quality. Each shoe goes through 40 inspection steps and later undergoes an extreme series of weather and temperature tests. 3. Open-ended. Script: In the city of Jinjiang, a leading sports shoe company has carved out a niche, which in recent years, has become a nationwide network. This leading shoe company has spent the last two years as China’s number one shoe seller and experts say they intend to stay on top. “The consumer is NO.1. It’s been the management slogan for our company in the last two years,” says Christina Li, vice president of the company. And they pride themselves on being the real thing. Each shoe goes through 40 inspection steps after being carefully stitched together by their footwear gurus. The shoes later undergo an extreme series of weather and temperature tests to make sure they’ll last. A pair of their athletic sneakers retails for between 300 and 500 yuan, part of the company’s mission to remain an affordable brand. They sold 50 million pairs of shoes in China in 2016, and are stepping up business both at home and overseas. But the company’s directors say their number one focus is the consumer, and aim to keep them happy with authentic, quality footwear for years to come. “We want to make each of our shoes, each of our sportswear, count for the consumer; and with high quality, with high tech, but with better prices.” Learning the Skills Pretest Key: 1. Because aesthetics in the gaming world are kind of limitless. And there is a possibility for