BEP 79 – 旅行: ホテル予約

Today’s Business English Podcast lesson is on making a hotel reservation.

It’s something all of us need to do: Whether it’s for a company business trip, or for personal travelwe all need to, at some time or another, call a hotel to reserve a room. もちろん, making reservations is not only useful for hotels but also for all sorts of situationsconferences, restaurants, airplane travel, and any other type of event that requires us to book in advance.

That is the skill that we will be practicing in this episodemaking reservations. 途中で, we’ll also be learning vocabulary for staying in hotels.

リスニングで, Sarah Johnson is going on vacation with her husband. She calls the reservations desk at the Majestic Hotel in New York, where a staff member, トニー, picks up the phone. あなたが聞くように, pay attention to the language Sarah uses, and try to answer the following questions.

リスニングの質問

1) What kind of room does Sarah want?
2) What extra request does Sarah have?
3) Tony makes a mistake while taking Sarah’s reservation. それは何ですか?

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BEP 67 – 職場の同僚との付き合い

This is the fourth in a series of intermediate business ESL podcasts that focus on business travel. In this series we’re following a group of trainees who work for the telecommunications company Ambient as they visit their head office in Michigan in the U.S.

How do you make friendly chat with your colleagues? What kinds of topics can you talk about? We’ll be looking at some answers. 特に, we’ll cover informal greetings and how to chat about movies. As almost everyone loves to go to the cinema, movies are usually a good topic for small talk.

As our listening begins, it’s Monday morning. Honesto, a trainee from the Philippines, says hello to his American colleague Brenda as she comes in to the office.

リスニングの質問

1) What does Brenda mean when she says “veg out”?
2) What are critics and what did they think about Rush Hour 3?
3) How does Brenda like her coffee?

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BEP 66 – 同僚との協力とリクエスト

すべての従業員のためのオフィススペースがない場合、または多くの従業員が通常、ほとんどの時間を出張やオフサイトでの作業に費やしている場合はどうしますか? 90年代に, 賢いマネージャーが解決策を思いついた – ホットデスク – 残りは歴史です. ホットデスクとは、それらを必要とするスタッフのために設定された一時的な作業領域を使用することを指します.

ラップトップコンピュータとインターネットの発明で, 私たちはほとんどどこでも働くことができます. 今, ハイテクソフトウェア会社から経営コンサルタントまで、世界中の多くの企業で、さらには銀行やエンジニアリングなどのより伝統的な業界でますます, 一定数の作業領域が作成されます “ホットデスク。” それらが空である限り, 誰でもそこで働くことができます. 座って下さい, コンピューターを接続します, そして、あなたは行く準備ができています! 多くの人が旅行している会社で, これは、未使用のスペースを最小限に抑えるため、コストを節約するための優れた方法です。.

この中で ビジネス英語ポッドキャスト レッスン, 出張シリーズを継続します. Honestoをフォローしています, マニラのAmbientTelecommunicationsの従業員, ミシガン州の本社への研修旅行, 米国. レッスンの主な言語の焦点は丁寧なリクエストをすることです. 途中で, また、好き嫌いを表現するためのいくつかの異なる方法についても見ていきます。. ホネストは自分が未使用の机であることに気づき、突然新しい隣人を見つけたときに一緒に働いています, ミーガン.

リスニングの質問

1) HonestoとMeganは丁寧なリクエストをするためにどのような表現を使用していますか?
2) ホネストはどのようなトレーニングに参加していますか?
3) ミーガンはどこから?

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BEP 56 – 出張旅行 2: 税関と移民

Continuing our series on ESL for business travel, we rejoin Alan and Honesto on their business trip to the USA. の BEP 55 – Airport Departures and Take Off, アラン, the main character in our story, and Honesto, his colleague, have left Hong Kong for San Francisco. There they will go through immigration, collect their bags, and change planes to Michigan, which is where their company, アンビエント, is headquartered.

Immigration is the process you follow to enter a foreign country. So in today’s ESL lesson, you’ll learn helpful travel vocabulary and phrases you can use when you enter the U.S. or other countries.

リスニングの質問

1) What is an I-94 form?
2) How much money can you bring into the U.S.?
3) Where does Alan want to go sightseeing?
4) What does Alan mean byjust pulling your leg?”

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BEP 55 – 出張旅行: 空港の出発と離陸

This Business English Podcast lesson is the first in a series of shows that will follow an employee of a manufacturing company on a training trip to the U.S. Over the series, we’ll practice many situations that will be useful for you on your business trips overseas, including going through immigration, renting a car, checking into a hotel, using wireless internet and so on.

The main character in our story is Alan Chen. He works for a major multinational electronics manufacturer, アンビエント, which is headquartered in Michigan in the USA. Having recently received a promotion, Alan is going to America to learn 6 Sigma, which is a system for improving quality.

Today’s episode starts at the beginning of the business trip withboarding the airplane.

リスニングの質問

1) What row are Alan and Honesto sitting in?
2) What should passengers turn off before the plane takes off?
3) What does Alan mean bymurder a scotch.

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