Meeting people
Partner files: Student B p.78
Speaking I How do you greet people in your country? What do you say when you greet
people in English?
Reading 2 Complete these dialogues with the words in the box.
1 Natasha: Hi, my (l) Natasha.
Khalid: Pleased to (2) you. I'm Khalid Ali.
Natasha: Pleased to meet you, (3)
2 Philip: Good morning. (4) your name? Ahmed: I'm Ahmed.
And (5) are?
Philip: My name's Philip. (6) to meet you.
3 Tim:Hi everybody, (7) is Ingrid.
All: Hi!
Tim:Ingrid, this (8) Ahmed, Linda, Mohammed and Mansoor.
Ingrid: Nice meeting you (9) Linda: Likewise.
Tim: (10) to the team and good luck.
Listening Listen and check your answers.
4 Listen again and repeat the dialogues.
Work in small groups. Practise introductions. Follow the instructions below.
Speaking 5
1 Introduce yourself.
2 Introduce a new team mem ber-
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Listening 6 Listen to this dialogue and choose the correct answers.
Kathryn: Karim, what do you do?
Karim: I'm a (1) website developer/network administrator. Who do you
work for?
Kathryn: I work for CISCO. I'm a (2) system analyst/website analyst there.
Where are you from, Karim?
Karim: I'm from Kuwait. I work for Microsoft there. And where are you
from, Kathryn?
Kathryn: I'm from the (3) UK/US but now I live in Qatar. Do you know where
Glenda's from?
Karim: She's from the US.
Kathryn: And what's her job?
Karim: She works for (4) IBM/Dell. Her job is to set up new systems.
Language
We use be to say I'm Sam. I am Sam.
who somebody is or You're/We're/They're from the UK. You/ We/They are from the UK.
what something is.
He's/She's a website developer. He/She is a website developer.
It's in the US. It is in the US.
We use be to ask personal Where are you from?
questions. What's his name/job? What is his name/job?
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Present tense of be
7 Listen and repeat these words.
I'm, You're, She's, He's, It's, We're, They're/Their
Reading 8 Complete this email with am, is, are, their, our or my.
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Writing 9 Write a reply to the email in 8. Introduce yourself and three people
in your group.
10 Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about your jobs,
Speaking
companies and nationalities.
Example:
A: Where are you from?
B: I'm from
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Jobs in IT
Speaking 1 Work in small groups. List the IT jobs you know.
Reading 2 Read this team introduction. Complete the descriptions 1—4 with the IT jobs in
the box.
1 Sylvia is a
2 Isabelle is a
3 Andrew is an
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4 Mark and Latika are
Language
What do you do? I'm a programmer.
What does she do? She's a developer.
Where does she work? She works for IBM in Poland. She
presentsimple doesn't work in Estonia.
routinesand
permanent or
time.
Where do they work? They work for Siemens in Egypt
Do you work in IT? Yes, I do/No I don't.
Present simple
Listening 3 Listen to three people talking about their jobs, Complete these job
descriptions.
1 Karl
Job: software
Responsibilities: he designs and computer games.
2 Heba
Job: analyst
Responsibilities: he computer problems.
3 Wojtek
Job: database
Responsibilities: he analyses and electronic data.
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in the [T
industry
Speaking 4 Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about Karl, Heba and Wojtek.
Example:
A: What does Karl do?
B: He's
Listening 5 Listen and complete this dialogue,
Ahmed: Where (1)
Betty: I work for Dell in Dubai. What (2)
Ahmed:
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I'm a (5)
Betty: Milo, do you (7)
Milo: Yes, I do. What do you (8)
Betty: Where (9)
Milo: She works with (10)
(11)
Ahmed: I see. Right, let's go. The workshop starts in five minutes.
6 Listen and repeat these questions.
I Where do you work?
2 What about you?
3 What do you do?
4 What do you want to know? 5 Where does she work?
Writing What is your dream job? Write a job description for the job of your choice.
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Job:
Company to work for:
Responsibilities:
Speaking 8 Tell the rest of the group about your dream job. Use your notes to help you.
Example: My dream job is . I design/solve/analyse .
Schedules
conference.Completethis dialogue,
Listening 1
Penelope: Hi, Don. (1) are you?
Don: thanks, Penelope. And you?
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Penelope: I'm OK. Bit tired from the flight.
Don: Right.
Penelope: (3) workshop (4) you want to attend today, Don?
Don: I want to go to the CISCO network security workshop.
Penelope: Sounds interesting. What time does it start?
Don: at 9.15.
Penelope: And (6) does it finish?
Don: at 4.00 in the afternoon.
Penelope: well, 1 (8) to attend the Microsoft Windows
Applications workshop. It (9) at 8.30 am and (10)
at 6.00 pm. But they have two breaks, at 10.30 and
12.45.
Don: That's good.
Penelope: Hope you enjoy your session.
Don: You too. See you around.
Language
Schedules
We use at with clock times.
It starts at 9.15. (nine meen/quarter past nine)
It begins at 8.30. (eight thirty/halt past eight)
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What time does it
start/begin/finish/end?
It finishes at 4.00. (four o'clock)
It ends at 5.05. (We oh We/five past We)
When do you have a break? We have a break at 1245, (twelve forty-five/a quarter to one)
2 Listen and repeat these times.
1 7.05 5 4.35
2 6.45 6 2.15
3 8 0'clock 7 12 0'clock
4 10.45 8 9.50
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3 It starts at 6.00.
Speaking 4 Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about your daily schedule and breaks. Make
notes.
Example:
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A: What time/When do you start work?
B: [start at 8.00. What about you? A: I begin
at .
5 Tell another pair about your partner's schedule.
Example: - starts work at 8.00 and finishes at 4.00. She has a break at 12.00.
Reading 6 Complete these sentences with the words in the box.
I work in an office (l) Dubai but I'm (2) Canada. I work
(3) SAP there. I start work (4) 8.15, have lunch in a café
(5) 1.30 and finish about 5.00.
Writing 7 Write three sentences about yourself and your daily schedule.
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% 10 Listen and repeat these sentences.
1 It finishes at 5.00.
2 It ends at 8.00.
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Spelling
Speaking 1 Work in small groups. List the IT acronyms you know.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) FTP (File Transfer Protocol) a standard
HTML is a mark-up language used to network protocol used to copy a file from
describe the structure of a web page. one host to another.
WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) A
type of local-area network that uses high-
frequency radio wires to communicate
between nodes.
Listening 2 Listen and complete this
dialogue. Andrei: Bob, can you
(1) me, please?
Bob: Sure-
Andrei: I don't understand this acronym, What does it (2)
for? Bob: Let me see. 'W3'. I'm not sure. Maybe WWW,
the World Wide Web.
Andrei: OK. What does P2P stand for?
Bob: (3) stands for person-to-person.
Andrei: OK. What does IP (4)
Bob: It means Internet Protocol.
Andrei: How do you (5) 'Protocol'?
Bob: p—r—o—t—o—c—o—l.
Andrei: Thanks.
Bob: You're welcome.
3 Listen to the letters and repeat them.
English and
American
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British b
cd eg ptvz
/zee/ in
f l m n sxz
English.
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Speaking 4 Work in pairs. Make a list of acronyms.
Ask and answer questions.
Example:
A: What does HTML stand for/mean?
B: It stands for/means . . . .
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Business matters
Writing I You are at a training workshop. The trainer asks all the trainees to
complete the form and introduce themselves. Complete this
form about yourself,
Participant Information
Name: Date:
DOB: Place of residence:
Contact: Phone Email
Interests:
IT job you want and why:
2 Work in pairs, Swap your profiles and introduce your partner.
3 Write an email message to introduce yourself to the employees
in the company using the profile below or your own
information.
You are a new employee in a company. Your position is a network
administrator. You are responsible for setting up firewalls, security
levels, wireless connection, usernames and passwords.
Speaking 4 Work in pairs. Student A: you are the IT help desk coordinator,
Mrs Mahmoud. Turn to page 68. Student B: you are Sharifa.
Turn to page 78. Complete the task. Swap the roles.
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