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外语系. 纺织商务英语 Textile Business English. Module Five. Working together. Task 3. The way we work. 1. To understand the concept of telecommuting. 2.To take notes by listening. 3.To adjust yourselves to the changing way of work. Learning Objectives. Lead-in—Group discussion.

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  1. 外语系 纺织商务英语 Textile Business English

  2. Module Five Working together

  3. Task 3 The way we work

  4. 1. To understand the concept of telecommuting.2.To take notes by listening. 3.To adjust yourselves to the changing way of work Learning Objectives

  5. Lead-in—Group discussion 1. With new technology, is it not necessary for you to be at the office to do your job? 2. Is it difficult to become a telecommuter? 3. Is Telecommuting less environmentally friendly than office-based work? 4. Which is more expensive, telecommuting or commuting to work every day?

  6. Useful expressions and patterns 1. Could you make some coffee, please? • 2. Could you do the photocopying, please? • 3. She doesn’t have to wear formal clothes at the office. • 4. She has to write weekly reports. • 5. You shouldn’t work so hard. • 6. Why don’t you ask for help? • 7. I can’t stop thinking abut work. • 8. You mustn’t make personal phone calls at work. • 9. It’s rather urgent. • 10. I’m very busy right now. Can I do it later?

  7. Listening Monologue 1 freelance n. 自由作家；自由记者 Listen to this man talking about telecommuting. Write true (T) or false (F) for each sentence. • He started telecommuting last year. • In London he worked two or three hours a day. • Now he works ten hours a day. • He is the company’s only employee. • His secretary now lives in Ireland. • She earns more now than she did before.

  8. Listening • Monologue 2 • Listen to this woman talking about telecommuting and fill in the blanks. I started working from home a few years ago. My season ticket on the train cost me over 1 a year, and most days the trains were late or overcrowded. I used to leave home at 2 , and if there was an important meeting, I might not get home until 3 o’clock! It was the stress of travelling that made me decide to change the way I work. Now, I find I can get much more 4 done, and I’m much 5 and more relaxed. I can meet friends for lunch, do my shopping, even go away for the day. I still have to go up to the city for 6 , but now I enjoy my trip to the office and the chance to see old colleagues and friends. The bad side is that I don’t get paid while I’m away on 7 or when I’m 8 , but I think that the good points outweigh the bad.

  9. Listening Monologue 3 • 1. computer consultant 电脑顾问，电脑咨询师 • 2. client n. 客户 • 3. phone jack听筒塞孔 • 4. plug v. 插 • 5. investment n. 投资 • 6. distraction n. 分心, 分心的事物 • 7. brainstorm v. 头脑风暴 • 8. media relations department 媒体关系部门 • 9. telecommunications n. 电信 • 10. productive adj. 多产的，高效的

  10. Listen to three people talking about telecommuting. Make notes about their jobs and why they telecommute.

  11. Passage Reading 1 Satisfied companies and employees expand the world of telecommuting

  12. Reading and Analyzing Brainstorming Question 1. How many Americans telecommute at least once a month? 2. What do you think the advantages are for: the company? The workers? The environment?

  13. Satisfied companies and employees expand the world of telecommuting It’s a lot easier for Angela Hawkins to work nights and on weekends than it was last year. A few months ago, the 34-year-old Northern Telecom manager traded in her office at the company’s headquarters for an office in her home. Now she’s a telecommuter and keeps in touch with the office by e-mail, voice-mail, fax and telephone conversations.

  14. Satisfied companies and employees expand the world of telecommuting It’s a new and expanding world. Across the United States, there are 11 million telecommuters who work from home at least one day a month, an increase of 30 percent from 1996. About 500 of Northern Telecom’s 8,500 employees are telecommuters. They include people like Angela who are full-time telecommuters, and those who keep offices both at home and at company headquarters.

  15. Satisfied companies and employees expand the world of telecommuting In 1995 Northern Telecom began encouraging telecommuting by providing all the equipment an employee needed to set up a home office, and installing all the electronic equipment. It also provides facilities at its headquarters for telecommuters who occasionally have to come into the offices..

  16. Satisfied companies and employees expand the world of telecommuting Telecommuter America, which represents telecommuters, did a survey of 500 managers. They found that 53 per cent believe that telecommuting improves worker productivity. It also found that companies are offering telecommuting as a way of attracting and keeping employees. Telecommuting helps those with families spend more time together, it results in less pollution, and it allows employees to work where and when they want to. Low unemployment means that companies have to work hard to find employees, and offering telecommuting is something that employees like.

  17. Satisfied companies and employees expand the world of telecommuting Telecommuting may not be for everyone—some people miss the office and find working at home to be lonely. But of all those who have tried it at Northern Telecom, only one person has decided they don’t like it!

  18. New Words and Expressions • 1. telecommuter n. 通信上班族 • 2. electronic equipment 电子设备 • 3. telecommuting n. 通信上班，指不用去办公室而在家里用电脑和其他通信设备如电话、传真、网络等与办公室连接上班 • 4. productivity n. 生产力

  19. Passage reading 2 Telecommuter portrait: editing facts by fax Jennifer Porter is the managing editor of Healcare, a publication of the American Pharmaceutical Association. From her private office in her Virginia home, she assigns up to ten articles for each issue of the magazine. The writers send her their stories on a computer disk, usually by means of an overnight delivery service. Porter checks them and then sends them to the designer’s office in New York. Porter’s biggest problem with electronic publishing is training her writers. ‘One sent the story on a wrong-sized disk; another used a disk that my computer read; a third used software I couldn’t decipher.’

  20. Passage reading 2Telecommuter portrait: editing facts by fax • The disk problems should improve on the next issue because Porter has recently invested in a modem so that writers can send their stories directly to her computer. • Porter says she is a skeptical technical consumer. ‘I like a computer the same way I like a pencil. They are both tools that must work. If something goes wrong with my electronic equipment out here in the middle of Virginia, I have to put it in the car and take it someplace.’

  21. New Words and Expressions • 1.electronic publishing 电子出版 • 2.decipher n. 译解(密码等), 解释 • 3. modem n. 调制解调器 • 4. skeptical adj. 怀疑性的,好怀疑的 • 5. portrait n. 肖像, 人像

  22. Exercises 1. Tick the equipment which is mentioned in the article. Computer telex Photocopier modem Portable phone fax 2. Are these statements true (T) or false (F)? A Jennifer Porter is a writer for a medical magazine. B Her biggest problem is her computer. C She recently bought a modem. D She is a high-tech fan.

  23. Group Discussion 1. Explain the changes which we work according to the time briefly. 2. Which do prefer, working at home or at office? Why? 3. Can you predict the changes of where you are working now?

  24. Assignment Translate the following the passage Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions–and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes–in our own lives or the groups we lead at work–why are the changes are so frequently short–lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality? Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey take us on a carefully guided journey designed to help us answer these very questions. And not just generally, or in the abstract. They help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we are able to accomplish. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work provides you with the tools to create a powerful new build–it–yourself mental technology.

  25. Reference For more topic-related information , please refer to the following websites: http://www.riotintoalcan.com/documents/The_way_we_work.pdf http://www.tushucheng.com/book/2223750.html http://astore.amazon.com/nozkidz-20/detail/0618233784

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