This document provides learning objectives and content for a lesson about companies. It includes definitions of key terms, examples of company names to fill into a table, verbs for students to use to describe company activities, a sample response from a student describing their favorite company, and sections on language points, reading, speaking and writing exercises related to describing companies.

1. Companies, like people, cannot be
skillful at everything. Dorothy Leonard
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COMPANIES

2. Learning Objectives:
A- to define a company
B- to tell about one’s favorite company
C- to explain what is happening at one’s company/university
D- to scribe the inside environment of a company
E- to give a presentation about your company
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COMPANIES

3. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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To know if you know much about companies, answer this survey:

4. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Complete the table on information about both companies.
Dalotek
Dalotek
Dalotek
Dalotek
Dalotek
Green Shoots
Green Shoots
Green Shoots
Green Shoots
Green Shoots

5. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Complete the table on information about both companies.
Dalotek
Dalotek
Dalotek
Dalotek
Dalotek
Green Shoots
Green Shoots
Green Shoots
Green Shoots
Green Shoots

6. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Use verbs underlined in exercise B to fill in here:
makes
sells employs
has launches
supplies provides

7. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Tell us what your favorite company is, and
explain why.
My best UAE company would be Zayed University
for a variety of reasons. First, it ranks among the
top 5 employers in the UAE. Second, it provides
excellent education to more than 9500 students.
Third, it is accredited internationally, and it has 8
colleges, 17 majors and 10 minors. It was first
launched in 1998, and ever since it has been
growing bigger and bigger. Besides, it employs a
wide range of diversified staff and faculty. The
majority of them are totally satisfied with the
work environment. Who wouldn’t like to be
recruited in such a fabulous institution?!
SPEAKING

8. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Time for a Language Point

9. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Time for a Language Point
‘s calling
‘m writing
‘re building
‘re working
isn’t going
is hiring

10. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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On the language side, let us see what goes where and how.
I am taking an English class for my law major. It’s through distance learning.
I am revamping the old office. I’m going to install/introduce new furniture and appliances.
After the CORONA Virus hit, my company is restructuring to make ends meet.
My company is running many professional development activities.

11. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Time for some reading. Let’s do this exercise.
It is relatively popular, but it is still new.
It definitely is a safe and clean form of energy.
But it can also be noisy, ugly and not constant.

12. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Before reading, let us check these new words:
READING

13. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Let’s do some schema warm up first.
It is doing better in its international market. Let us read line 15 of the passage.
Its strategy is to grow and expand its business in India and Latin America where the
market is growing.

14. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Time for scanning the text about Gamesa
Spanish
Wind turbines
Latin America
nearly 8000
20
30
Up to 26%
Up to 29%

15. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Time for Word Collocation

16. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Classify words on the list.
every day
normally
usually
currently
now
this time
toay

17. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Language Refresher

18. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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sells
give
is doing
operates is planning
has
are growing
is opening
is working

19. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Time for SPEAKING. Using the below tables.
Pick any workplace you wish to talk about.

20. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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21. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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Time for Grammar Focus. The focus here is writing.
The use of functional language in context.

22. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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SPEAKING

23. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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WRITING

24. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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WRITING
Here is a company profile of the French company.
MISSION:
Omnia Supermarkets is a leading group of supermarket and convenient stores in France.
We sell food, house hold products and furniture. Our company employs around 1.500
People. We want to be the number 1 supermarket chain in Europe.
TURNOVER & PROFIT:
We have a turnover of approximately $220 million. Last year, our profits were $ 18.4
million.
FUTURE PLANS:
We want to continue offering our customers excellent service. To do this, we want to
build more convenient stores. We also want to increase our range of own-label products
to offer our customers even better values.

25. Companies, like people, cannot be skillful at everything.
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