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BEP 79 – 旅行: 预订酒店

商务英语, 客户服务, ESL 播客, 中级英语, 旅行 /

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. 当然, 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.

在聆听中, 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. 当你听, pay attention to the language Sarah uses, and try to answer the following questions.

听力问题

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. 它是什么?

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BEP 67 – 与同事在工作中交往

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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.

听力问题

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 – 与同事合作并提出要求

商务英语, ESL 播客, 功能, 中级英语, 旅行 /

如果没有足够的办公空间供所有员工使用，或者其中许多人通常将大部分时间花在外出旅行或工作上，该怎么办? 在90年代, 一些聪明的经理想出了一个解决方案 – 热桌 – 剩下的就是历史. 热桌服务是指使用为需要他们的员工设置的临时工作区.

随着笔记本电脑和互联网的发明, 我们几乎可以在任何地方工作. 现在, 在全球许多公司中，从高科技软件公司到管理咨询公司，甚至在银行和工程等更传统的行业中越来越多, 一定数量的工作区域 “办公桌。” 只要他们是空的, 任何人都可以在那里工作. 坐下, 插入电脑, 你准备出发了! 在很多人出差的公司, 这是省钱的好方法，因为它将未使用的空间减少到最小.

在这个 商务英语播客 课, 我们将继续我们的商务旅行系列. 我们正在关注Honesto, 来自马尼拉的环境电信员工, 在前往密歇根州总部的培训之旅中, 美国. 本课程的主要语言重点是提出礼貌的要求. 一路上, 我们还将研究表达喜欢和不喜欢的一些不同方式. Honesto找到了自己未使用的桌子，并且突然间遇到一个新邻居，他正在工作, 梅根.

听力问题

1) Honesto和Megan使用什么样的表情来提出礼貌的要求?
2) Honesto参加哪种培训?
3) 梅根来自哪里?

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BEP 56 – 商务旅行 2: 海关与移民

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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, 艾伦, 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, 周围, 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.

听力问题

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 – 商务旅行: 机场起飞和起飞

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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, 周围, 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.”

听力问题

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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