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Market Leader Intermediate – Unit 3: Change – Listening

A. Anne Deering is Head of Transformation Practice at international management consultants AT Kearney. listen to the first part of the interview and complete the gaps.

  1. What are they …………………………… (1), how are they going to ……………………….(2), and how will they know they’ve ………….(3)?
  2. Make sure people are …………………(4) in the change, that they feel this is something they are doing for ………..(5) and not something which is being done ………………. (6)

Đáp án:

  1. going to change
  2. measure that change
  3. been successful
  4. fully engaged
  5. themselves
  6. to them

B. Listen to the second part. What are the two main problems that businesses face when going through change?

Đáp án:

  1. change fatigue
  2. getting leadersengaged and aligned aroundthe change

C. Listen to the final part, where Anne talks about Nokia-Siemens Networks, and answer the questions.

1. What was the main purpose of the merger?

2. What do these numbers refer to?

a) 8,000

b) 72

Đáp án:

1. to create better value I a future for the organisation

2.

a) the number of people involved in the development stage of the project

b) the number of hours over which this ‘conversation’ took place

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Vocabulary Market Leader Intermediate – Unit 3: Change– HocHay

  1. Write the verbs from the box under the correct prefix to make words connected with change. Use a good dictionary to help you. Some of the words can be used with more than one prefix.
assess   centralise   date   develop   grade   launch   locate    organise   regulate    size    structure       train

 

down- de- up- re-
       

 

Đáp án:

down- de- up- re-

grade

size

centralise

regulate

date

grade

assess

develop

launch

locate

organise

structure

train

B. Complete these sentences with the correct form of the verbs from the box in Exercise A_ Use a good dictionary to help you.

  1. Following the merger, the office layout was ……………. to accommodate the new staff.
  2. The most successful change in our company was the decision to ………..the company. Now there is more opportunity for promotion.
  3. It is now so expensive to rent offices in the city centre that many companies are ………… their operations to purpose-built business parks at the city limits.
  4. The company has recently ………… its workforce. Reducing the number of employees is the best way to stay profitable in the current economic climate.
  5. To improve efficiency, the company has introduced new working practices. The HR department will …………. all sales staff.
  6. One of our products hasn’t been selling well recently. The marketing team has decided to take it off the market and ………… it next year with new packaging.
  7. The IT department report recommended that the company ……….. the computer system as soon as possible.
  8. The CEO thinks that too many decisions are made at Head Office. She wants to ………….. the decision-making process so that branch managers are more involved at an earlier stage.
  9. The company has finalised the plans to ………… the disused car-park site. It is going to become a fitness centre for employees.
  10. The logo and slogan are very old-fashioned. We need to …………….. the whole image of the product and bring it into the 21st century.
  11. There is a lot of pressure on the government from consumer groups to ……………… the industry and remove controls, so customers can benefit from increased competition.
  12. Following the report by the legal department and changes in the tax laws, the management decided to ……………. the situation and delay making a decision on the takeover.

Đáp án:

  1. reorganised
  2. restructure
  3. relocating
  4. downsized
  5. retrain
  6. relaunch
  7. upgrade
  8. decentralise
  9. redevelop
  10. update
  11. deregulate
  12. reassess

C. Underline the nouns in Exercise B that make partnerships with the verbs.

Đáp án:

1. the office layout was reorganised
2. restructure the company
3. relocating their operations
4. downsized its workforce
5. retrain all sales staff
6. relaunch (the product)
7. upgrade the computer system
8. decentralise the decision-making process
9. redevelop the disused car-park site
10. update the whole image
11. deregulate the industry
12. reassess the situation

Language Review Market Leader Intermediate – Unit 3: Change– HocHay

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  1. Which of the following expressions are used with the past simple and which are used with the present perfect? Which are used with both?
in 2010    this week    recently    since 2009    yesterday    last year    yet    ever    six months ago

Đáp án:

Past simple: in2010, yesterday, last year, six monthsago

Present perfect: since 2009, yet*, ever

Both: this week, recently

 

*Unless you are teaching an American English class, don’t get bogged down in differences between British English and American English. It’struethatinAmerican English the past simple can be used with yet, as in Did you eat yet?, but only confirm this if a student mentions it.

B. Complete this short business brief about Vietnam using the past simple or the present perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.

Vietnam …………(1) (go) through many changes in its history and …………(2) (experience) many economic changes recently. It is currently experiencing an economic boom. In 1986, the government …………(3) (introduce) economic reforms or doi moi (doi meaning change and moi new). The reforms ………. (4) (permit) the setting up of free market enterprises and …………(5) (abolish) the practice of collective farming. However, agriculture remains the most important part of the economy. Vietnam ……….. (6) (recently/become) the second largest producer of rice in the world after Thailand. The industrial sector ……….. (7) (show) dramatic improvement and expansion as well. In 1993, the World Bank …………(8) (declare) 58% of the population to be living in poverty. By 2005, this figure was less than 20%. Vietnam …………(9) (also/make) great strides on the international stage in the last decade or so. It ………..(10) (become) a full member of ASEAN in 1995, and of the WTO in 2006. The effects of this new-found prosperity can be seen everywhere. Large, glitzy malls …………. (11) (appear) in major cities, while streets once filled with bicycles are now overflowing with locally produced Japanese, Korean and Chinese motorbikes and cars. Business visitors wishing to relax in a more traditional Vietnamese town should visit Hoi An. Hoi An …………(12) (be) a major Asian trading port in the 17th and 18th centuries, and its picturesque architecture and relaxed lifestyle …………(13) (change) little over the years.

Đáp án:

  1. has been/gone
  2. has experienced
  3. introduced
  4. permitted
  5. abolished
  6. has recently become/recentlybecame
  7. has shown
  8. declared
  9. has also made
  10. became
  11. have appeared
  12. was
  13. have changed

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