Supplementary Exercise One:
Before you do the exercise please go through the requirement again to make sure that you fully understand it.
1.Spot Dictation:
I was quite surprised to get their letter, actually. ____________ they've done nothing but complain about everything. There always seemed to be something wrong. So it's strange that they ______ ______ so many of ___________. Especially they're relatively ______. We've only ____________________ for a month. They want us to deliver sixty September.
Well, ___ wrote to them ________ thanking them for their help over the accounting matter. I've just had a ______. __________________ we ____________________ reduce costs, which is ______ to know. But they want us to cut back even more.
I've just _________________ about that actually. They ______________ __________________. They _____________________ our decision to expand within Australia, so _____ they ______________________________go into New Zealand as well. I don't want to give too much away until we know what they are doing.
About two months ago, we ______________________ that they were selling. But they still ________________. Now they've written to say ___________________________. They ____________ to deliver them ______________________. That's lucky, because I ___________________ write to complain about them taking so long.
I said I wanted to ___________ to Harrison. So ____________ to say they ________________________. Apparently _________________________. ________________ everyone in the sales and marketing to go.
2. When you make your choice, are you interested in the one that includes the words or phrases you hear in the tape?
Supplementary Exercise Two:
1. Are you clear about the following titles' responsibilities?
Title | Responsibility |
Personnel Manager | Recruitment and selection; Employee development; Employee relations; Employee services; Pay and benefits; Human resource planning |
Marketing Manager | defining to whom where and how products/services are going to be offered; market research; guiding a firm's marketing and sales departments; |
Training Manager | conduct and supervise training and development programs for employees; plan, organize, and direct a wide range of training activities |
Managing Director | Provide leadership and direction for the company's activities and operations; develop clear strategic plans; Oversee the management the budgeting of the company and reporting to board; Maintain an overview of all the company's activities and operations; |
2. Who do you think sounds most imperative and confident and might be in charge of several departments? Why?
3. Spot Dictation: