3. Answer Key - Ex.6
Complete waste of time
Absolute flop
Total disaster
Significant breakthrough
Great success
Amazing achievement
Real triumph
4. Expression
They don’t give that impression - They
don’t appear that way
If you can spare me some time - If you
can give a moment of your time
Let’s talk about it over coffee - Let’s
discuss while having a cup of coffee
Make contacts - Initiate new relations
Where does it leave us with ...? - What
should be the next step?
5. Olli
Destination: India
Impression & verdict: Impressive
welcome from Mr Rahman, wasting their
time; the factory is chaotic and old-
fashioned; need to modernize; let
current contract run and look for
someone else
Next step: Make sure the rest of the
orders are completed; focus on
improving their system; review situation
in a couple of months
6. Sandrine
Destination: Vietnam
Impression & verdict: Factory is small
but business is dynamic and efficient;
furniture is of excellent quality; could
become better if given support; few
communication problems
Next step: Invite Mr. Tran to visit;
develop relationship
7. Ex. 3 - page 98
1. How did it go in Vietnam?
2. I’ll bring you up-to-date.
3. Give me an overview.
4. I was pleasantly surprised.
5. Tell me more.
6. This highlights the need to ..
7. I think the next step is ..
8. We need to concentrate particularly on ...
8. Ex. 4 - page 98
How did it go
What makes you say that, why do
you say that?
what were your overall impressions
I was impressed with
Tell me more
highlights the need
need to concentrate, should focus on
9. Contrasting Language
To Compare
When you compare two things, you
put together the similarities
To Contrast
Is to look for differences between two
things/points of view/product
attributes
10. Contrasting Words
Unlike, Despite
Followed by nouns/gerunds
Despite being small, the factory is
efficient and organized.
Unlike India, Vietnam seems to have
some language barriers.
11. But, Even though, Although, However
Followed by a clause [S + V]
The work is overloaded but the plant is
understaffed.
Although the order came in late, we
can still deliver it on time.
The factory is well-run. However, the
machines are old.
12. How to Generalize
To generalize In general
On the whole Generally
speaking
All in all
To specify
Overall
Particularly
Mainly
In particular
Mostly
13. Activity 2
You are on a mission to search for a new
place to hang out with friends
Where did you go? [Pick a few places]
What are your impressions? Which place
do you choose?
What’s the next step? Going back?
Activity?
14. Vocabulary - Cafédirect
Fairtrade: trading programs between
corporates and farmers with the
intention to improve the farmers’
economic condition
Example: Starbucks, The Body Shop
Being everywhere: ubiquitous
Street vendors are ubiquitous in
Bangkok.
15. Feedback - Activity
Flow in dialogue
Coherent - responsive to the previous
statement - add transition
Avoid repetitive choppy word
Practice critical thinking
By adding your own opinion into the
given files
16. Spoken language
Be sure to transform given
information from files into correct
spoken language
Vocabulary
Customer demographic: age, income,
education
To do a research
To extend the product line
To (re) launch a product
Grammar
Should + infinitive [no TO]
