hospitality
• n.
• kindness in welcoming strangers or guests
• receptiveness
Corporate hostpitality: 企业商务招待
Discussion – Entertain your clients
• What ways of entertainment can you think of when you have to entertain important clients?
Reading
• Go over Reading 1 on page 24.
• Discuss with your partner:– What advice is given in this training
course?
Key words and phrases
• Pick up:
1. She soon picked up French when she went to live in France.
2. When I arrived at Guangzhou airport, she picked me up.
Key words and phrases
• See … as:
1. I didn’t see his determination as a defect.
2. Regard .. as/think of … as
Key words and phrases
• Stand around:
1. Don’t stand around doing nothing. Give me a hand with the luggage.
2. Stand about/sit around/
Key words and phrases
• On the company:
1. This meal is on me.
2. Have another coffee. It’s on the house.
Key words and phrases
• Add up to:
1. The figures add up to 270.
2. Their actions added up to a deliberate flouting of rules.
Key words and phrases
• Lie in:
1. The causes of the war lie in the greed and incompetence of politicians on both sides.
• Lie with:
2. Responsibility for the disaster must ultimately lie with the government.
Key words and phrases
• Lie in:
1. The causes of the war lie in the greed and incompetence of politicians on both sides.
• Lie with:
2. Responsibility for the disaster must ultimately lie with the government.
Discussion - Which way?Page 23
• Read the profiles of the business people
• Discuss their possible characteristics and preferences
• Choose appropriate ways to entertain them, and state your reasons.
Mixing business with pleasure
• a meal at an expensive restaurant
• a round of golf
• a sightseeing tour of the city
• an evening at the theatre
• a visit to a sports event
• a shopping trip
Brainstorming - Pros and cons
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of mixing business with pleasure?
• Discuss and state your ideas.
Brainstorming - Pros and cons
• Build a good business relationship• Establish rapport with clients• Enhance mutual understanding• A more colorful life• Difficulty of swapping roles• Forget your role• Problems with personal relationship might
endanger business and vice versa.
Reading 2
• Read the letter, and find out what the invitation is for.
• Please include essential information in your answer.
• The invitation is for Mr. Fellini to visit the Trackplus factory in Oxford and Head Office in London.
Words and Expressions
• Our range of children’s and teenage faship sports wear
1. Product range 产品系列
Words and Expressions
• Put/leave/place sth at sb’s disposal
1. My library is at your disposal.
2. A helicopter was put at their disposal.
Appropriate wording
• Always consider your relationship with your target reader.
• This decides how formal or informal your letter should be.
• Choose the most appropriate phrase to fill each numbered space in the letter.
• 1. B; 2. B ;3. A; 4. A; 5. B; 6.A