BEP 79 – Seyahat: Otel Rezervasyonu Yapma

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. Elbette, 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. Yol boyunca, we’ll also be learning vocabulary for staying in hotels.

dinlemede, 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, Tony, picks up the phone. Dinledikçe, pay attention to the language Sarah uses, and try to answer the following questions.

Dinleme Soruları

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. Bu ne?

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BEP 67 – İşyerinde Meslektaşlarımla Sosyalleşmek

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. Özellikle, 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.

Dinleme Soruları

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 – Meslektaşlarımızla Çalışmak ve Talepte Bulunmak

Çalışanlarınızın tamamı için ofis alanınız yoksa veya çoğu zamanlarının çoğunu seyahatte veya iş yeri dışında çalışarak geçiriyorsa ne yaparsınız?? 90'larda, zeki bir yönetici bir çözüm buldu – sıcak masa – ve gerisi tarih. Sıcak masa, ihtiyacı olan herhangi bir personel için oluşturulan geçici çalışma alanlarını kullanmayı ifade eder..

Dizüstü bilgisayarların ve internetin icadıyla, hemen hemen her yerde çalışabiliriz. Şimdi, yüksek teknoloji yazılım firmalarından yönetim danışmanlarına ve hatta bankacılık ve mühendislik gibi daha geleneksel sektörlerde giderek artan bir şekilde, dünyanın dört bir yanındaki birçok şirkette, belirli sayıda çalışma alanı yapılır “sıcak masalar.” Boş oldukları sürece, orada herhangi biri çalışabilir. Otur, bilgisayarını tak, ve gitmeye hazırsın! Çok sayıda insanın seyahat ettiği şirketlerde, bu, paradan tasarruf etmenin harika bir yoludur çünkü kullanılmayan alanı minimuma indirir.

Bunda İş İngilizcesi Podcast'i ders, iş seyahati serimize devam edeceğiz. Honesto'yu takip ediyoruz, Manila'dan bir Ortam Telekomünikasyon çalışanı, Michigan'daki merkez ofise eğitim gezisinde, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri. Dersin ana dil odağı kibar isteklerde bulunmaktır.. Yol boyunca, aynı zamanda beğeni ve beğenmeme durumlarını ifade etmenin farklı yollarına da bakacağız. Honesto kendine kullanılmayan bir masa buldu ve aniden yeni bir komşusu olduğunda birlikte çalışıyor, Megan.

Dinleme Soruları

1) Honesto ve Megan kibar isteklerde bulunmak için ne tür ifadeler kullanıyor??
2) Honesto ne tür bir eğitim alıyor??
3) Megan nereli?

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BEP 56 – İş seyahati 2: Gümrük işleri ve Göçmenlik

Continuing our series on ESL for business travel, we rejoin Alan and Honesto on their business trip to the USA. İçinde BEP 55 – Airport Departures and Take Off, Alan, 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, ortam, 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.

Dinleme Soruları

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 – İş seyahati: Havaalanı Kalkış ve Kalkış

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, ortam, 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.

Dinleme Soruları

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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