BEP 58 – Refrigerador de água Chitchat: Expressões desportivas (2)

Expressões desportivas 2, faz parte de uma série que se concentra em conversas informais ou conversas – chitchat refrigerador de água. Continuamos de onde paramos da última vez em BEP 57. Jan e Jen, funcionários da grande empresa americana de telecomunicações Ambient, estão conversando sobre um evento recente na indústria: Sotaque, uma empresa de telecomunicações européia, assumiu o TelStar, um dos concorrentes americanos da Ambient.

Última vez, Jen tinha acabado de discutir como ficou surpresa que a TelStar decidiu jogar bola, isso é cooperar, com Accent porque os acionistas haviam sido “parando por tempo,” ou atrasar, por meses. Como Jan responde?

Listening Questions

1) Quem é McConnel e o que Jan e Jen pensam dele?
2) O que Jen e Jan dizem sobre o futuro da Accent no mercado americano?

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BEP 57 – Refrigerador de água Chitchat: Expressões desportivas (1)

This Business English Podcast lesson is the first in an ongoing series where we’ll listen in on some typical chitchat around the office water cooler. You’ll find a water cooler in offices around the worldusually in the break room where employees gather to drink a cup of coffee or tea and take a rest from work.

And during these breaks, you might meet with a colleague and exchange words about life, your jobs, your company, Esportes, politics or whatever. Então “water cooler chichathas come to refer to all types of informal communication that take place at the office.

We’ll be listening in on Jan and Jen, who work in the same office of Ambient, an American telecoms company, gossiping around the water cooler. They are discussing the latest industry news: Sotaque, a major European player in the market, has just announced the takeover or buy out of Ambient’s main competitor,TelStar.

Listening Questions

1) Do Jan and Jen think Accent’s takeover of TelStar was a good idea?
2) Why was there a delay in the takeover?

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Business News 11 – lançamento do iPhone

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Today, were talking about Apple’s new mobile phone: the iPhone. Actually it’s a combination of phone, iPod and internet browser all rolled into one gadget. We’ll be looking at the hypeor massive publicitysurrounding the launch of the iPhone and taking a closer look at the marketing vocabulary we use to describe product launches and the retail market.

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Business News 10 – Viacom Sues YouTube para 1 Bilhões de dólares

Today we have a Business English News story on a company that’s been in the news quite a bit recentlyYouTube. Em particular, we refresh and discuss some of the key vocabulary we covered in our Video Vocab series on the law and legal vocabulary:

Video Vocab 04 – Basic Legal Terms
Video Vocab 05 – Casos de tribunal
Video Vocab 06 – Lei comercial

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