English for slow business

SUSAN GEORGE.   http://www.stwr.org/globalization/transforming-the-global-economy-solutions-for-a-sustainable-world.html PETER VICTOR.MANAGING WITHOUT GROWTH. Peter Victor challenges the priority that rich countries continue to give to economic growth as an over-arching objective of economic policy. The challenge is based on a critical analysis of the literature on environmental and resource limits to growth, on the disconnect between higher incomes and happiness, and on the failure of economic growth to meet other key economic, social and environmental policy objectives. Shortly after World War II, economic growth became the paramount economic policy objective in most countries, a position that it maintains today. This book presents three arguments on why rich countries should turn away from economic growth as the primary policy objective and pursue more specific objectives that enhance well-being. The author contends that continued economic growth worldwide is...

Welcome to Get That Job! Finding a job can be a complicated and tiring process. Sometimes you just don't know where to start looking, let alone how to persuade a company that you are the best person for the job! This site is full of activities and quizzes to build on your knowledge of career-related vocabulary and offer some tips on things like how to put together a good CV or come across well in an interview. You can work your way through this site step by step, from 'Job Search' to 'Interviews' - just click on 'What's next?' on the right of the page each time you have completed an activity. Or you can go straight to whichever units are of most interest to you by using the links at the top of the page. Happy job hunting! 1. Job search. Where to look. 2. Describing  abilities. 3. A model CV. 4.Organizing information. VIDEO. How t...

http://www.talkenglish.com/Speaking/Business/PhoneCalls.aspx

Listen to some exemples for managing small talk. Write on your notebook the differences in the three dialogues in each example. http://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/smalltalk/smalltalk.htm

Prepositions of place and time : IN / ON / AT Use IN before: - Countries and cities :Colombia, Bogota (Paises y ciudades) - Buildings: a shop, a museum (Edificios) - Months: February, June (Meses) - Seasons: winter, summer (Estaciones del año) - Years: 1998, 2003 (Años) - Times of the day: morning, afternoon, evening – NOT night (Partes del día) Use ON before: - Transport: a bike, a bus, train, plane, a ship – NOT car (Transporte) - A surface: the floor, a table, a shelf, the balcony, the roof, the wall (Superficies) - Dates: March 1st (Fechas) - Days: Tuesday, New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day (Dias) Use AT before: - The following words: school, home, work, university, the airport, the station, a bus stop, a party, the door, night, the weekend - Times: 6 o’clock, half past five, 4:45 pm (Hora) - Festival periods: Christmas, Easter (Festivales)   ( colaboración englisch-hilfe.com ) MORE PREPOSITIONS  EXERCISES http://www.learnenglish.de/Gam...