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学習上の留意点：
１）これまでリーディングと英作文で学習した英語能力をコンピュータを使ってさらに向上させることを目標としています。練習問題と取り組むことによってコンピュータを操作して英文を気軽に書ける能力を培うことができます。学習要領については、ここをクリックしてください。
２）各章の練習問題と取組む週にも先ず例文の音声を５回づつ聞くことから始めてください。そうすれば、各章の音声を３週間継続して聞くことになりますので、聞く・話す語学力も飛躍的に向上します。もし各章の英文テキストをＭＤなどに録音し、毎日の通勤時間に繰り返し聞いておられる方はその必要はありません。
練習問題の取組方法：
Business の Tasks（２段目のメニューの一番右側）の Head Office
に掲載されている課題を解決する問題です。
Promotics
UK Ltd
Scene
You are the
new management trainee at Promotics UK Ltd, part of the
International Promotics Group producing and marketing a wide range
of sports goods.
You are
involved in the work of each of the departments. You can learn who the
managers are from the staff-list.
Click on the
unit that you wish to tackle.
Valuable advice
You will
find it helpful to read this info file. It provides important
information
Unit I Welcome – Front desk
Unit
1 Stage 2 -- E-Commerce
Unit
II Management
Unit
III Purchasing
Unit
IV Sales
Unit
V Marketing
Unit VI Personnel
上記の課題から Unit I Welcome - Front desk の
Task One - Updating the
advertising leaflet を見て見ましょう。
Stage 1 Edit
a document
Susan
Bishop, the MD`s PA, hands you a leaflet
with a typed note on it. She says Mrs Williams has asked her to give
it to you.
Print it out
and deal with it.
Create your
revised text. Then save it as LEAFLET1.DOC and print it out. You
pass it back to Susan.
Stage 2
Listen to a voice-mail message
An hour
later you notice the red light flashing on your telephone indicating
the arrival of a voice-mail message. Listen
to it.
To ensure
you get all the details, type out word-for-word what it says. Save
the text as LEAFLET2.DOC and print it out.
Stage 3 Edit
a text
Call up your
revised text LEAFLET1.DOC. Then edit it to include the items
mentioned in the voice-mail message.
Save it as
LEAFLET3.DOC and print it out.
Stage 4
Record a text
When you
return to your desk after lunch you find a note
in your in-tray. Deal with it.
Record your
revised text. Then save it as LEAFLET4.WAV.
To check
your work, you can compare it with sample
texts.
Stage 1 の問題は、Mrs Jane
Williams（JW）の下記の英文メモを読んで、下記のリーフレットのテキストを書き直す問題です。
Memo Form
To:
Trainee
From:
MD
Subject: Revision of our
leaflet
Here
is a page from our current leaflet. It is rather old and needs
updating. Would you
redraft the text to include the following information which Susan
has drawn up. Make it
easy to read. Please do
it as soon as you can. We need it for our training seminar next
month. Thanks.
JW
Text of the leaflet
Promotics UK is part
of the International Promotics Group established three years ago to
produce and market a wide range of sports goods.
The group
consists of three companies: in France, Italy and Britain.
The Italian company
produces and markets football jerseys and socks.
The French company handles footballs and tennis balls and the
UK company concentrates on saddles for show-jumping
events.
The headquarters of
Promotics UK is at 25 Market Square in Swindon where it employs a
staff of 30.
There are sales offices in Birmingham and Cardiff
The saddles are manufactured by a small, independent company
based in Leeds.
Promotics UK employs
12 sales representatives operating out of London and the two sales
offices.
The company
attends the main UK trade exhibitions
New information
Five years since Promotics group was set up
HQ now in London
(225 Piccadilly)
Five more sales
offices: in
Cheltenham, Perth, Exeter, Norwich and York
Sales force now 45 reps
Saddles:
soon be made in company's own factory in Leicester.
Product
range now includes many other equestrian items (riding boots,
jodhpurs, riding jackets, hats, reins, stirrups, hunting
regalia).
We now
attend all major horse trials & racing events and have our own
stand at leading exhibitions.
French company:
range greatly extended:
includes balls of every description.
Italian
company: markets wide range of sports & leisure-wear (top
quality).
Growing
export business
Group has
agreement with small factory in Gastein, Austria making carving
skis.
Ｓtａｇｅ 2はvoice-mailを聞いて、リーフレットを再度書き直す問題です。
解答は、下記の Unit 1-1 および Unit 1-2 をクリックしてください。（To check
your work, you can compare it with sample
texts.）
Unit
1-1
Unit
1–2
このような要領で課題が提出されますので、各章の学習を終えたら課題を１個ないし２個解決してください。課題は英語で書かれていますが、この課題を読みこなすのも学習の１つですので、辞書（英辞郎）を引きながら少しづつでもいいですからこなして行ってください。 |
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