UNIT TWO – MISSION TO ACCOMPLISH COURSEBOOK, p. 17, WORDFORMATION Complete the gaps with the WORDS created from the words in brackets. EXERCISE 1 First, BAA is unusual in running the project itself. Mr Douglas insists that 1. outsourcing ______________/SOURCE/ to a big project 2. management /MANAGE/_____________ group such as Bechtel would cost more, not less. Second, as much as possible of the 3. construction ______________/CONSTRUCT/ is taking place off-site. This reflects the site´s physical 4. constraints _________________/CONSTRAIN/: it has only one 5. entry __________________/ENTER/ point, through which a 12-metre load must move every 30 seconds for a period of four years. And the site has 6. capacity ______________/CAPABLE/ for no more than two days of 7. storage_______ /STORE/. The 8. solution _________/SOLVE/, he says, has been some “car industry industry logistics“ – a large 9. investment_____________ /INVEST/ in computing and training that no individual supplier would have made. First, BAA is unusual in running the project itself. Mr Douglas insists that 1. ______________/SOURCE/ to a big project 2. ________/MANAGE/ group such as Bechtel would cost more, not less. Second, as much as possible of the 3. ______________/CONSTRUCT/ is taking place off-site. This reflects the site´s physical 4. ______________/CONSTRAIN/: it has only one 5. ________________/ENTER/ point, through which a 12-metre load must move every 30 seconds for a period of four years. And the site has 6. ______________/CAPABLE/ for no more than two days of 7. _______ /STORE/. The 8. _________/SOLVE/, he says, has been some “car industry industry logistics“ – a large 9. _____________ /INVEST/ in computing and training that no individual supplier would have made. EXERCISE 2 New departures Passing risk to 1.____________ /SUPPLY/ chosen by beauty parade increases the risk of corner-cutting. And, as T5´s 2. ____________/SUPPLY/ are partners who will work on future projects, they have an incentive to do a good job. If something goes wrong later, there may be a debate about 3. ___________/NEGLECT/. If T5 works so well, why isn´t BAA building airports elsewhere? A bigger priority, at least for now, is to get 4. ______________/PERMIT/ to build an 5. ___________/ADD/runway at Stansted. But 6.___________,/ULTIMATUM/ success will 7. ________/SURE/ point to a spin-off business that can build other big projects 8. __________/SAFE/ and 9. ___________ /CHEAP/. COURSEBOOK, p. 17; READING 1. At what stage of construction does the fifth terminal of the Heathrow airport find itself now? What does it look like? 2. What are/ will be the terminal´s main functions? 3. Why is building airports especially tricky? 4. Who is Tony Douglas? What is his previous work experience? 5. What is is T5 and how is it related to BAA? 6. Does BAA normally outsource such projects or run them itself? 7. Why does most of the construction work take place off-site? 8. What is T5 Agreement? 9. What is the suppliers´ attitude to glitches and delays which almost inevitably arise during the course of building works? 10. How can a building work get behind the schedule? 11. How is the BAA trying to prevent delays in the project? COURSEBOOK, p. 21; LISTENING Vocabulary to become familiar with before listening. 1. to take on the market research side of the project 2. to have the specifics 3. we are convinced there´s a market out there 4. to do some basic research 5. to conduct; arrange some interviews 6. to focus on the data 7. What about the dates? 8. Does that sound reasonable? 9. There´s no way we can do it by then. 10. It´s exactly the sort of thing we are good at! I´m very happy to be involved. 11. before we draw up the final specifications 12. How much are you budgeting for your side of things? 13. a provisional budget of 50k COURSEBOOK, p. 16; LISTENING Vocabulary to become familiar with before listening. 1. the nature of all the projects is that they are fluid 2. guidelines which project managers have to follow 3. a number of tools to help them 4. critical phases of the project 5. to look at the project as a whole 6. the project doesn´t have solid foundations 7. a feasible project 8. a project that will add value 9. a project overview lays out the purpose and strategy behind the project 10. to develop contingency plans if things go wrong WORKBOOK, p. 10; LISTENING Complete the sentences with the words you hear. · M: I need to _____________________________ soon about your office workstation project and _________________ if you could check I´_____________________________. · J: What do you need to know? · M: Well, I´ve written that office staff will be able to control their workstation “_____________________________________________“… I mean when they enter the building … and _____________ their card, the lights in their office ______________________ , their computer will start up and colleagues will get an e-mail so they know the person´s ______________________ the office - all helping to save staff time and increase productivity. · J: Not quite. We´ve got rid of the email bit. ____________________________that people feel______________________________– you know, all their comings and goings noticed by colleagues and bosses! -------- * M: ….. and what are the key dates and stages before then? * J: I can´t_______________________________________ , but I can send it all to you though if you like along with possible dates for___________________ . COURSEBOOK, p. 22; D+D, TEST CRISIS TASK 1 Complete the following extract with the most suitable words. Then compare your choice with the original. Well, in this case we really had to 1. __________ very quickly. There was no way that we could deliver products that had not been tested to our customers. So the 2. ____________ was first to determine which solutions were feasible in the time we had available. That 3.______________ the option of building a separate testing plant, simply because there wasn´t enough time to complete it. The three 4. _______________ options were all equally feasible. So then it became 5. _______________ of choosing the solution that would be the most cost-effective. In fact, the one that was selected was “offloading“ testing to the factories that had 6. _____________ capacity, and that was chosen mainly because it would be cheaper for the company and it would also be a solution that could be used systematically whenever the same problem occurred at any of the plants. I was the project manager and that was my job for the next six months. It was a lot of work co-ordinating all the different factors, but in the end it worked 7. ________ fine and we still use the system today. For me, it 8. ____________me that the most obvious solutions are not, in fact, always the best. Because, of course, we could have just 9. ___________ and bought testing machines and installed them directly. excess/spare capacity TASK 2 Answer the following questions 1. Who is Infineon? 2. What does each Infeon plant do? 3. Why are managers in France worried? 4. For what reason has emergency meeting been called? 5. What will the four managers present at this meeting do? WORKBOOK, p. 11; READING Give the words defined by the following. * _________ =failure to give care or attention, especially when this causes harm or damage * _______ = a small and sudden problem: HITCH * ________ = a set of connected things that work together for a particular purpose * _________ = COMPUTING a series of instructions that makes a computer perform an action or a particular type of work * ___________ = the amount of money a person or organization has to spend on something * ___________- =a situation in which something happens later or more slowly than you expected * __________ = a/to start a major activity such as a military attack, a public INVESTIGATION, or a new career or project * ________ =a series of actions that you think about carefully to help you achieve something;an economic/spending/corporate plan;a peace plan * _______________ = a plan of activities or events and when they will happen Questions to the text. 1. What happened on Sept 14 in an air-traffic control centre in Palmdale, California? 2. Was there a mid-air collision of aircraft? 3. What does the author of this articles see as the main problem: a) the fact that sb forgot to restart the system after 30 days, b) the design of the system itself 4. What does it mean pervasive? 5. What are the results of the survey carried out by Standish Group 6. Are delays typical only of the IT industry? 7. Whose fault is it? 8. What fact does the mention of Longhorn illustrate? COURSEBOOK, p. 19 TASK Based on the complete information in the book and the following hints, try to retell the contents of the article. Bechtel Corporation appoint the lead contractor the new Athens undeground rail system aim ready for the Olympic Games 2004 complexity few people on time concern cost exceed the initial budget despite delays time-consuming excavations archeological finds glitches Bechtel ensured not get behind the schedule once project complete Attiko Metro SA take over management of the new network 400, 000 passengers every day Try to complete the article with the most correct verbs. The AS project management team have 1. withdrawn / drawn up / overdrawn the following schedule for the AS 90 project, which 2. has / is / can due to 3. kick back/ kick off/ kick at the beginning of January. The first phase of the project will 4. be carried out/ be carried/ be carried away by Luke Marshall and Gianni Visconti. They will be 5. implementing / organising/ researching a meeting with the whole team during the first week in January to discuss the needs analysis questionnaire before it is sent out to hotel managers in the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. By mid- January, the software specifications and manpower requirements will be 6. taken over/ submitted/ trained for approval by the project manager and work will start on the pilot programme at the end of February. In April, the B team will 7. take over/ train/ appoint the implementation phase. This will 8. budget / require/ plan extensive travel for the team members who will be providing training for hotel staff at a series of one-day workshops. May has 9. been fixed / outsourced / interfaced as the deadline for handing over the complete project with all deliverables to our customer. Grammar of Unit 2 – additional exercises ARTICLES I TASK Complete this article with either a/an, the or a dash (-) to show no article. HOW CLEAN IS THEIR MONEY?? Money laundering is (1) the name given to one of (2) _________ world´s biggest financial problems:moving money that has been obtained illegally into (3)__________ foreign bank accounts so that (4)___________ people do not know where it has come from. Putting (5)_______________ value on money laundering is of course very difficult, but the International Monetary Fund estimate that it is huge – perhaps $1 trillion (6) ____ year, equivalent to about 4% of gross world product. (7)_________ problem has grown hand-in-hand with (8) _______ globalisation, and particularly with (9)___________ lifting of capital controls and (10) _______ development of (11)________ international payment systems. These allow money to be moved in (12) ________ seconds between banks in different parts of the world who know very little about each other. (13) _______ international payment system is crucial to (14)________ stability of the world´s financial markets, but it also provides (15)___________ opportunity for criminals to hide their money. Private banking is (16) _________ best-known laudering channel. Clients of these banks are wealthy people who want their affairs handled with discretion, especially because they want to minimise (17) ___________ amount of (18) __________ tax they pay. In these banks there is (19)__________ culture of “don´t ask; don´t tell“. And (20) ______ biggest problem within (21)_________ private banking is offshore banks. There are around 5,000 offshore banks controlling about $5 trillion in assets, and some have no physical presence in any location. I TASK Complete this interview between a journalist and the CEO of Biotec, a biotechnology company. Use either a/an, the or dash (-) to show no article. Journalist: Can you begin by telling me (1) a little about (2) the recent changes at (3)_ Biotec? CEO: Well, as you know, last year we made (4)______ decision to move our operations to (5) Cambridge, because it´s very important for (6) _______________ biotechnology companies to recruit (7) _______ scientists from (8) _______ best universities. We´re in (9) _____ very competitive jobs market here in Cambridge, and we motivate our employees by offering them (10) ______ attractive salaries and (11) ____ excellent working conditions. We´ve built up (12) _______ excellent team, and we´re doing some very important research in (13) ________ field of (14) _____ gene therapy. Journalist: Many people say that (15) _____ biotechnology promises more than it delivers. Is that true at Biotec? CEO: That may be true in general, but (16)____ biotechnology that we do is already producing (17)_______ results. Last year we made (18)______ small profit for (19)__________ first time, and (20) ______ revenue is increasing rapidly. Also, we´ve recently made (21) _____ distribution deal with (22)_________ large pharmaceutical company. They have the marketing skills that we lack, and (23) ______ partnership is working well for both sides. Our aim next year is to enter (24)_____ American market, and we´re confident of (25) ______success. I TASK Complete the following texts with either the or a dash (-) to show no article. A (1) ___ Argentina is one of (2)_____ most deregulated markets in (3) ______ world. (4) _______privatisation process started in (5) _____ 1990s, and has included sectors such as (6)_______ telecommunications, (7)_______ utilities and (8)_______ financial services. (9) ______ Argentine telecoms market was fully deregulated in (10) _____ November 2000 and there are now (11) _____ five million cellular lines and six million homes with (12)_______ cable television services. (13) _______ water was decentralised before being privatised. (14)________ Aguas Argentinas, (15) _____ local water supply company for (16)_______ city of Buenos Aires and all (17)_______ municipalities in (18) _______ Greater Buenos Aires, is (19)___ largest water utility in (20) ____ world. B Imagine a country that continues for 4,200 km from (21)_______ dry deserts in (22)________ north, through (23)______ industrial and agricultural heartland in (24)________ centre, to (25)________ lakes and forestry plantations in (26) ____south, and finally to (27)_________ ends of (28) ______ earth in (29) Patagonia and Antarctica. Welcome to (30) ____ Chile! It´s a very diverse country, with (31)______ Pacific Ocean to one side and (32) ______Andes to (33)____ other – you can swim in (34)______sea and ski in (35)_______ mountains all in (36)_______ same day. There are (37)________ business opportunities in many areas, and (38)______ financial services sector is (39)________ most sophisticated in (40)______ Latin America. I TASK Complete the following with a, an, the or – (to show no article). 1 ___ Lake Michigan 2 ____ France 3 ______ Hyde Park 4 _______ Ruzyně Airport 5 _______ California 6_______ Globe Theatre 7_________ Czech Republic 8 ________ Eiffel Tower 9 ________ White House 10 _________ Prime Minister 11 _________ Marketing Director 12 to play _____ piano 13 to play ______ tennis 14 _____IMF 15 _______ 21 century 16______ Pacific 17 in ____ 1980s 18 ______unemployed do not receive enough help. 19 Dr. M. Smith is ______ Chairman of _____ Board. 20 at _____ Christmas 21 in _____ 2001 22 in _______ July 23 on ________ Thursday 24 We went by_____ train. 25 It happened on _____ train to Rome. 26 My mother spent three days in ______hospital. (it is not important in which one) 27 We supply equipment for ________ hospital. (one particular hospital) 28 in ____ north 29 in______north-west 30 at _______ present 31 in _______future 32 in ______ past 33 at ______ moment I TASK In each pair of sentences, fill in one space with the and the other one with a dash (-) to show no article. 1 A __ profits are increasing across every division of the company. B __ profits we made last year were up in comparison to the year before. 2 A __ information in your report will be very useful to us. B __ information about the Kazakh market is hard to find. 3 A __ visitors should sign their name in the book at reception. B __visitors from Germany will be arriving at ten. 4 A This magazine article gives______ advice about which stocks to buy. B Thank you for _____ advice you gave me last week. 5 A ___ bonds I have are all long-term investments. B ____ bonds are a safe investment when interest rates are falling. 6 A ______ French exports to the rest of Europe are up 4% this year. B ______ French are world leaders in the luxury goods market. 7 A _______ management is an art, not a science. B ______ management are blaming the unions for the breakdown in negotiations. Review Test PJI1A Intelligent Business: Unit 2 – Projects Name: Teacher: TOTAL (60 points to pass) MARK Number of points (max. 100 points) I. Listening: III. Grammar: II. Vocabulary: IV. Translation: I. Listening: (max. 20 points) points ------------------------ II. Vocabulary: (max. 34 points) points A. Translate the following expressions into English: (2 points each) maximalizovat zajišťovací sumu – _____________________________________________ předpovídat náklady spuštěného projektu – ______________________________________ obviňovat subdodavatele ze závad a zpoždění – _____________________________________ vypracovat proveditelný plán pro mimořádné události – ______________________________ odvrátit selhání záložních zařízení – ___________________________________________ schválení předložených požadavků na pracovní sílu – ______________________________ navrhnout a uskutečnit účinné omezení – _______________________________________ dostatečně zhodnotit časově náročné výběrové řízení – _____________________________ B. Write expressions the following definitions refer to: (2 points each) 1. a person or group of people who are considered to be an important part of an organization because they have responsibility within it or receive advantages from it: 2. the process of arranging for somebody outside a company to produce goods or provide services for that company: C. Complete the sentence with one of the following phrases; translate the selected phrase into Czech. (2 points each) ENDEAVOUR, DEADLINES, SPECIFICS, KEY FEATURES, ENCOUNTER, SERIES 1. One of the _________________________ of a well-managed project is its detailed and perfect organization. In Czech: _____________________________________ 2. The last public _________________________ of the two CEOs took place at the engineering trade fair in Vienna, and it was very informal. In Czech: _____________________________________ 3. The project team has to predict any difficulties and its members have to be prepared to solve a _________________________ of complex tasks. In Czech: _____________________________________ D. Complete the sentences with correct forms of the following verbs; some verbs are not used: (1 point each) COST – PAY – PASS – STAY MOVE – FIX – HIT – BUMP UP 1. ____________________ the objectives means setting final goals that need to be achieved. 2. Have you ever been unfair and _________________________ risk to somebody else? 3. It’s estimated that human errors _________________________ the European economy €30 billion last year. E. Complete each sentence with a word made from the word given in brackets. (1 point each) 1. The management’s __________________________ over the future development is so big that they haven’t been able to reach any conclusion at all. (AGREE) 2. If you really want to save some money, consider __________________________ some of your less important business activities. (SOURCE) 3. A new market research will show our company what the __________________________ to our major difficulty is. (SOLVE) 4. The project has to be finished with all __________________________ no later than next Friday. (DELIVER) 5. Do all of you think that the project of the new robot is __________________________? (DO) III. Grammar: (max. 30 points) points A. Fill in the gaps with a suitable preposition or adverbial, if necessary: (1 point each) 1. The CEO’s concern ________ the future development is gone now. 2. Bob has been chosen to oversee ________ the pilot project. 3. Our company took ________ 5 new construction engineers last month! 4. Fortunately, corner-cutting is not peculiar ________ many companies here. 5. Although this supplier isn’t very reliable, we have decided to get ________ with them. 6. The development points ________ more sophisticated electronic systems. B. Rewrite the sentences so that they mean the same as the sentence above. (3 points each) 1. Sarah got a job in a factory. Five years later the factory closed down. At the time the factory ______________________ Sarah __________________________ there for five years. 2. When they left college, Mary and Sue started making films together. They still make films. Mary and Sue ___________________________ since they ________________________. 3. Jane is from New Zealand. She is travelling around Europe at the moment. So far she has travelled about 1,000 miles. She will travel additional 2,000 miles before returning home. By the end of her trip, Jane ______________________________________________ more than 3,000 miles. C. Fill the gaps with the definite article the, indefinite article a(n) or no article: (1 point each) Well, as you know, last year we made _______ decision to move our operations to Cambridge, because it’s very important for _______ biotechnology companies to recruit _______ scientists from _______ best universities. We’re in _______ very competitive jobs market here in Cambridge and we motivate our employees by offering them _______ excellent working conditions. We’ve built up _______ excellent team, and we’re doing some very important research in _______ field of _______ gene therapy. D. Choose suitable words or phrases that can complete each sentence. The number of correct answers is 0 – 4. (2 points each) 1. _______ Opera House is located on _______ Fourth Avenue in _______ Denver. A: The ... the ... ø B: ø ... ø ... ø C: ø ... the ... ø D: The ... ø ... the 2. _______ President of _______ IMF and _______ Prime Minister Gordon Brown came to _______ Masaryk University on _______ foot. A: ø ... the ... ø ... the ... ø B: The ... ø ... ø ... the ... ø C: The ... the ... ø ... ø ... ø D: ø ... ø ... the ... the ... the 3. Harry Potter goes to _______ school in _______ Hogwarts, goes there by _______ train and reads _______ Daily Prophet. A: the ... ø ... the ... the B: the ... ø ... ø ... the C: ø ... the ... the ... ø D: ø ... ø ... ø ... ø IV. Translation: (max. 16 points) points Translate the following sentences into English: (8 points each) Vybraný projektový tým se musí ujistit, že zdroje byly správně rozděleny a že náklady nejsou navyšovány, protože pokud by stavba nebyla předána včas a v rámci rozpočtu, mohlo by to finančně zruinovat celý projekt. _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Předpokládejme, že se naše továrna musí vypořádat s naléhavou situací, kdy zákazník odmítl prodloužit konečný termín pro dodání zboží. Jak byste se chopili tohoto problému a jaké řešení byste navrhli? _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________