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BEP 79 – 旅行: 預訂酒店

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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 travel – we all need to, at some time or another, call a hotel to reserve a room. 當然, making reservations is not only useful for hotels but also for all sorts of situations – conferences, 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 episode – making reservations. 一路上, we’ll also be learning vocabulary for staying in hotels.

在聆聽中, 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, 托尼, picks up the phone. 當你聽, pay attention to the language Sarah uses, and try to answer the following questions.

聽力問題

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. 它是什麼?

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BEP 67 – 與同事在工作中交往

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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. 尤其, 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.

聽力問題

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 – 與同事合作並提出要求

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如果沒有足夠的辦公空間供所有員工使用，或者其中許多人通常將大部分時間花在外出旅行或工作上，該怎麼辦? 在90年代, 一些聰明的經理想出了一個解決方案 – 熱桌 – 剩下的就是歷史. 熱桌服務是指使用為需要他們的員工設置的臨時工作區.

隨著筆記本電腦和互聯網的發明, 我們幾乎可以在任何地方工作. 現在, 在全球許多公司中，從高科技軟件公司到管理諮詢公司，甚至在銀行和工程等更傳統的行業中越來越多, 一定數量的工作區域 “辦公桌。” 只要他們是空的, 任何人都可以在那里工作. 坐下, 插入電腦, 你準備出發了! 在很多人出差的公司, 這是省錢的好方法，因為它將未使用的空間減少到最小.

在這個 商務英語播客 課, 我們將繼續我們的商務旅行系列. 我們正在關注Honesto, 來自馬尼拉的環境電信員工, 在前往密歇根州總部的培訓之旅中, 美國. 本課程的主要語言重點是提出禮貌的要求. 一路上, 我們還將研究表達喜歡和不喜歡的一些不同方式. Honesto找到了自己未使用的桌子，並且突然間遇到一個新鄰居，他正在工作, 梅根.

聽力問題

1) Honesto和Megan使用什麼樣的表情來提出禮貌的要求?
2) Honesto參加哪種培訓?
3) 梅根來自哪裡?

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BEP 56 – 商務旅行 2: 海關與移民

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

聽力問題

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 by “just pulling your leg?”

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BEP 55 – 商務旅行: 機場起飛和起飛

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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, 周圍, 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 with “boarding the airplane.”

聽力問題

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 by “murder a scotch.”

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