The aim of modern education. In what way does the education in your country differ from that in other countries?

Cross-cultural differences in doing business.

To gain trust

To be transparent, clear

To be very warm by nature

To have personal contact

To have power lunches

To go through agenda and hush it out

To come to an agreement

To build a business relationship through networking

To make proposition

Traditional social system

To find an intermediary

To establish good working relationship

To establish mutual trust and respect

What is that makes a successful personality? Leadership v. management.

A successful business person

To know one’s job very thoroughly

To have experience

To have a very good vision

To be capable in making a profit and earning money

To be a tam player

To be very good at managing relationships, understanding people and taking care of them in terms of the best performance

To be ambitious

A good collection of people

To manage the time you spend at work

Work-life balance

To be able to take yourself away from work

 3. Human resource development and the functioning. Job satisfaction.

To be the most satisfied

A high level of pay

A large amount of satisfaction with your work

To enjoy promotion opportunities

To need a hierarchy that they feel they can move up through their life

Work long hours

To be self-employed

To run one’s own business

To come from insecurity at work

A typically dissatisfied worker

To commute a long way to work

To fear that he is close to being sacked, close to losing his job

The strongest motivating factors

Job security and insecurity

To motivate people

The role of Internet and e-commerce.

To trade electronically, through the Internet

Much wider universe of potential suppliers

Community of customers

Match freelance professionals to organizations looking for particular skills

To have 60000 users of the site

To come to the site

To register

To use the site on a regular basis

To provide business services on-line

To post requirements

To meet an approved supplier

To work through the Smarterwork platform

To bring together clients and suppliers from all over the world

Mergers and takeovers.

The essential preparatory steps for a successful acquisition

To have a very clear strategy

To get competitor advantage over the other players in the market

To build a successful position on your own, through investment

To achieve your objective

The current owners

To bring benefits to the company through your ownership

To spend lots of time analyzing the projections for the company to try and arrive at a valuation

To work out your tactics

To ensure the successful integration of the new business

To take the ownership of the company

To combine tat company with your own

To pay absolute attention to the detail in that process

Assets

Human resource development and the functioning. The job interview.

Ability to react

Suitability for the position

To have some sort of bearing on the decision

To be neat and tidy

To have good manners

To show a lot of one’s personality

To be prepared for the interview

To have a fairly good knowledge

To become yes-man or yes-woman

To contribute

To get something out of that person

To lay dummy questions

To ask the right questions

To create the right relationship

An adult-to-adult relationship

Forms of business activity.

To start as a result of a study

To reveal the existence of a new market in cargo transport

To have enormous problems

To move heavy and large objects from one place to another

To identify the market

The concept behind the company

To lift heavy units and transport them over long distance

To get the project running

To do a feasibility study

To set up the company

To raise venture capital

To take the risk

Getting the Right Job. The Importance of maintaining work-life balance.

Invest in staff training and development

To meet our principles of good practice for training and development

To provide staff with regular briefings, frequent feedback and review meetings

To equip staff with new skills

To pass a number of job-related tests

Aptitude for the work

To get on with people

A close-knit group

To keep one’s interest high

To get a kick out

To keep a tally of

To compensate

Good holiday arrangements

An excellent pension scheme

Health provision

Personal fitness

Sports facilities

On hand

Prospects for promotion

The main twentieth century problems which affect your life and your country.

The most pressing problem

Worry about your child getting to school safely

Be made to feel afraid

To go out at night and not feel afraid

Effective law enforcement

Stricter laws

Cameras all over the place

Help to control the crime rate

Be spooky

Combat crime

Better social welfare

Be out of work

Enough (plenty) to go round (around)

To see themselves without a way to earn their bread and butter

To send them back to school

Set up retraining course

Loneliness

To get no one to talk with

To be invisible to most people

Live miles away

The elderly

Set up senior citizen’s groups

Technological Progress : Curse or blessing.

It sounds corny

To type everything on the word processor

To communicate with my superior here by e-mail

To exchange daily emails with my parent

To live in remote areas

Immediate access to medical attention

To travel an average of 70 miles to get to GP

A video link

To conduct the examination

To make the diagnosis

To prescribe the treatment

A combination of advanced computing and state-of-art telecommunications

The most successful human-centred application of modern technology

A heat-seeking device

To work through a special camera

To follow a suspect in places where visual contact is impossible

A palmtop computer

To fit in your pocket

To remember things for me

A flight simulator

To strap yourself in the seat

The booth is the exact size of an A300 cockpit

The trainee pilot

To control flight conditions from this console here

To have a malfunction

Simulations of high alarm

To set you back about four hundred thousand

The Importance of Getting a Degree. It’s never too late to learn

It’s been almost … years since that day, but I still remember it only too well.

What made us all stick together – pupils, parents and teachers

To come up with the most brilliant ideas for classroom activities

I got really fed up with …

Workload

To learn to be organized with studies

To go to a public school (state school)

The major advantage of a state school is that…

There are advantages and disadvantages to both

To be free

To be quite expensive

It is worth spending money to get a better education

To afford smth

To have better instructors and facilities

What’s great about state school?

The mix of students

There is not too much of a variety of people attending

The different types of people at a state school would make it more interesting

A big advantage of going to a public school is the connections you make

The better employers look for people first in public school

The aim of modern education. In what way does the education in your country differ from that in other countries?

The only way to get to university

New avenues are opening up all the time

There are thousands of opportunities within higher education

Prospective student

School or college leaver

To opt for

Completion of the two-year, full-time course

To offer one-year foundation courses

Vocational orientation

Employment-related foundation degrees

To have a strong emphasis on work-based training

Mature student

To insist on formal qualifications

To talk directly with admission tutors

Full-time advanced study

Return-to-study courses

To be run in many further education colleges

Adult education centres

To return to study after a break

To combine work and study

To look at sponsorship possibilities

To provide financial assistance while you study and work experience in vacation periods

A life-enhancing experience