Conveying your ideas - 51 - English at Work helps you present your thoughts
source: BBC Learning English 2017年6月21日
After Denise's sacking, Anna and Tom are worried that they might be next in the firing line! But things are looking up – Paul asks Anna to explain her plastic aubergine idea to the development team. Will she be able to convey her ideas to them clearly?
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TRANSCRIPT
Narrator: Hello again and welcome to English at Work. It's another day at Tip Top Trading and hopefully a happier one, following Denise's bad news about her job. I wonder if Tom and Anna are about to get the same bad news?
Paul: It's really awful having to let a member of your staff go but that's the situation we're in, I'm afraid.
Tom: And now you're going to letting us go aren't you? Honestly Paul, I've given my life to this company and, quite frankly, I'm disappointed… no, I'm angry at your decision. See your biscuits? Well…
Anna: Tom!
Tom: That's what I think of Tip Top Trading…
Paul: What?! Hold on Tom. I think you're a bit confused. I'm not sacking you too. I need to talk to you about plastic vegetables… you know, the aubergine idea?
Tom: Oh… I see. You're not sacking us? Sorry Paul… I'll buy you some more biscuits. So what was it that you had to say?
Paul: Plastic vegetables. Yours and Anna's idea for a plastic aubergine. I like it. It's good. So, I need you to develop a prototype we can use to show our potential clients.
Anna: Well that's great. So where do we get the prototype made?
Paul: Upstairs, on the 4th floor. We have a great development team who can magic up some amazing designs.
Anna:They're magicians?
Tom: No Anna. They're just developers who make things out of plastic.
Paul: Thank you Tom. Look, why not go and have a chat to them now and get the ball rolling.
Anna: But we're not making balls.
Tom: Come on Anna… I'll explain. See you Paul.
Narrator: 'To get the ball rolling' – he means to get the project moving along. Developers can design and make models of your products which you can show and develop. But you need to give them clear and specific instructions. Let's see how Anna gets on.
Tom: So this is the development team. Oh hi George, you up for footie on Sunday? Great. Have you met Anna before?
Anna: Hello.
Tom: We've come to talk vegetables.
George: Try the greengrocers!
Tom: Ha ha, very funny! No, we need a plastic aubergine making, mate. It's our new big idea.
George: Easy. We can just remould the design for the Imperial Lemon.
Narrator: Can they Anna? Is that what you wanted? To get what you want, you need to explain exactly your requirements.
Anna: But what shall I say?
Narrator: Tell them exactly what you were thinking by saying 'I have a specific idea in mind' and 'I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on how to improve my ideas' and, 'I'd like to use your design skills to produce a fantastic product'.
Anna: I see. OK, time for me to take control. George… this is quite a special project for us… isn't it Tom?
Tom: Oh yeah, right, absolutely.
Anna: So we want to get it right and I already have a specific idea in mind.
George: Great, sure, tell me more.
Anna: Well, based on a real aubergine, I was hoping it could be 20 centimetres in length, using grade 1 plastic resin, with a black-purple colour and a 30 degree curve on that side. Does that make sense?
George: Erm yeah. Quite clear.
Anna: Obviously you are a designer, so I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on how to improve our idea.
George: Well, it looks very impressive already. Gosh, Tom, where did you get her from?
Anna: He didn't get me from anywhere. Now, I'd like to use your design skills to develop a fantastic product that I can show everyone. OK?
George: Err… yes. I'll get onto it straight away.
Narrator: Excellent Anna. Sometimes it's important to take control and say what you really want but in a positive and encouraging way. These are the phrases that Anna used:
I have a specific idea in mind.
I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on how to improve my ideas.
I'd like to use your design skills to produce a fantastic product.
Narrator:There's one more phrase to use to make sure things go to plan if someone is making something for you. That is 'I need to sign off your designs before they go into production', that means approve the plans before anything I made. Off you go Anna…
Anna: …so when will you have the designs ready then?
George: Hopefully by tomorrow morning. Is that OK?
Anna: That will be great but I will need to sign off your designs before they go into production – that way, there won't be any mistakes – will there?
George: Crikey Tom, she’s a bit bossy.
Tom: No! She's a pussy cat really… a bit of a softy.
Anna: Now come on Tom. Fetch my things, we need to go and sort out a leaving present for Denise.
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source: Your English Web 2016年9月1日
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source: Learn English with Let's Talk 2017年8月11日
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source: JenniferESL 2017年8月24日
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0:01 Introduction
1:22 Title
1:32 #1 There are different names for nouns we can’t count.
2:06 #2 Uncountable nouns take a singular verb.
2:49 #3 Some nouns have both an uncountable and countable meaning.
4:33 #4 Uncountable nouns usually have a general or abstract meaning. Countable nouns are more specific (more concrete).
7:01 #5 One way to help us identify uncountable nouns is to learn the common categories they belong to.
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11:52 #7 Don’t confuse uncountable nouns with collective nouns.
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source: JenniferESL 2017年8月31日
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source: Official IELTS Practice 2017年7月17日
IELTS ACADEMIC band 9 material.
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Speaking is in three parts. The examiner wants to know what is your level of English. The questions are already set. Your response is recorded. Your score depends upon how clearly the examiner can understand you.
IELTS LISTENING TEST 22 with ANSWERS
source: Official IELTS Practice 2017年6月27日
IELTS ACADEMIC band 9 material.
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The IELTS Listening test will take about 30 minutes, and you will have an extra 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
The four parts of this practice Listening test are presented over four separate web pages. Make sure you move swiftly from one page to the next so that your practice is as realistic as possible.
Download the question paper and blank answer sheet before you start, and write your answers on the question paper while you are listening. Use a pencil.
Listen to the instructions for each section of the test carefully. Answer all of the questions.
There are 40 questions altogether. Each question carries one mark.
For each part of the test, there will be time for you to look through the questions and time for you to check your answers.
When you have completed all four parts of the Listening test you will have ten minutes to copy your answers on to a separate answer sheet.
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source: Learn English with EnglishClass101.com 2016年9月2日
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In this lesson, you'll learn 110 Reasons to Learn a English. Learn words from this vocabulary list to become fluent in English!
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