Unit 4 – Handout


1. Make questions for the following answers (based on the article HOW ABOUT NOW, p. 35, Unit 4)


 1. being verbose (1)
 2. right to the point (1)
 3. obsessive quest for perfection (2)
 4. buing and seeling online as well as setting up a digital info system (2)
 5. everything involved in the company’s business (2)
 6. the status of programs critical to GE’s business (3)
 7. if one of them stays red or yellow for too long (3)
 8. all GE’s senior managers (4)
 9. how certain measurements perform against goals (4)
10. $ 1.6 billion in one year (5)
11. innovative business management (5)
12. instantaneously (5)
13. a window into their business they never had before (6)
14. wireless sensors (7)
15. to develop software suggesting ways of optimizing the supply chain (7)
16. fluid and volatile (8)
17. automated program trading (8)


2. Complete the noun phrases with adjectives and nouns you hear

                                                 8

                                                  V______________

                                                                   business

                                                 9

                                                  C_______________

                                                                  network

                                                10

                                                  K_____________

                                                                  member

                                                11

                                                  V______________

                                                                  information

                                                12

                                                  S_______________

                                                                  training

                                                13

                                                  G_____________

                                                                  terms

                                                14

                                                  S_______________

                                                                  devices


1

                                                  L______________

                                                                  source

                                                 2

                                                  G_____________

                                                                  organization

                                                 3

                                                  S_______________

                                                                  observation

                                                 4

                                                  I_______________

                                                                  methods

                                                 5

                                                  E_______________

                                                                  surveillance

                                                 6

                                                  C______________

                                                                  information

                                                 7

                                                  C_______________

                                                                  areas



3. Dilemma Listening


Digital Visions is facing the sort of dilemma that many major corporations are
________________________________.

And it’s an extremely _________________ one with no easy solution.

On the one hand there is a law that corporations cannot ______________________ without taking
______________________.

On the other hand there is a question whether a company can or should ______________ a law on
employees in another country when the law directly _____________ its own national
________________________________.

75% of companies in the US have a sort of ______________________________________.

This question will ___________________ very quickly and will be resolved at the
______________________ of government.

They should definitely not install the hotline in countries where it meets with
__________________________________.


4. WB p. 19 Make Qs for the following Answers:


 1. several times a day (1)
 2. Microsoft (1)
 3. four years ago (2)
 4. to handwrite their notes (2)
 5. to converse with customer (2)
 6. for gadget lovers (3)
 7. Lenn Pryor (3)
 8. When he opines ruthlessly on Microsoft’s technology. (4)
 9. being harsh on Microsoft (4)
10. he cries foul. (4)
11. Jonathan Schwarz (5)
12.  that he wants his executives blogging (5)