商务英语中级情景口语整合
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商务英语中级情景口语:汇率
Exchange Rate
Dialogue 1
F: Have you followed the value of dollar lately?
M: How could I help but follow it? The fluctuation of dollar's killing my company, the exchange rate is eating into our profit, and we can't do anything about it.
F: It's really frustrating, isn't it? I have the same problem, I will feel a lot better if the currency was a little more stable, with the way the dollar plummeting lately, my security has gone up in smoke.
M: Everyday I has less money I haven't spent anything, it is just melting away because the shift of exchange rate,
F: What we really should be making investment in is the Euro, I followed Euro's progress over the last quarter, I think it's a bound time to buy in.
M: What about Yan?
F: Are you kidding? The Yan is the word shape of Dollar.
Dialogue 2
F: May I help you?
M: Yes, I would like to exchange some money.
F: what currency would you like to trade in?
M: I would like to exchange Chinese RMB for American Dollars, do you accept one hundred dollor bills?
F: No problem, we can accept any denomination, how much would you like to exchange today?
M: Well, that depends on the rate, how much is the RMB trading at today?
F: It's a shame you didn't come a little earlier, the exchange rate was reset yersterday's afternoon, the American Dollar is now worth RMB 7.45,
If you would like to sell RMB, we can give you a rate of 7.35, will that be all right?
M: I guess, here, give me RMB 5000 worth, I might as well exchange a little extra, who knows what the exchange rate will be tommorow!
商务英语中级情景口语:国际问候方式
International Greeting Methods
Dialogue 1
M: How was your trip to France lase week?
F: Do you think it was a successful trip?
M: In regard to our business I had planed to get done, I think it went pretty well, I visited both branch offices in Paris and Nice, but there were a lot of thing to get used to that I didn't expect.
M: Like what?
F: For one thing, I got kissed more in the three days I was in France than the last ten year's living in Beijin.
M: What? kissed, what are you talking about?
F: The french people usually kiss as a formal greeting when you first meet person, or when you see a freind. It's not a real kissing, it's just like a little pack on both sides of your face, on the cheek, or what's more common is air kisses, which is just making the sound of kissing instead of really kissing your cheek. Because I'm used to just an nice form of handshake, it took a little kidding used to the kissing type of greetings in France.
M: Anything else, that was different.
F: Yeah, they also tend to stand a lot closer to you when they talk, the space barber arround you is a bit smaller, I had to be careful not to subconsciously back up when people got closer than I'm used to.
M: Why would backing up be bad?
F: Because people might interpret it to mean you don't like them when in reality, it is because of social customs and conditioning.
Dialogue 2
M: Did you hear? after all the work and effort we put in securing deal with our Japnese counterparts, the contract was off.
F: What? What happened? It seems so solid, I can't imagine that they would back out on us.
M: It's quite simple, really, it was a bonehead from our executive commitee that screwed everything up, you know they went to Tokyo last week to see off the deal and sign the emerge contract.
M: Yeah, don't tell me things went sawer after the meeting.
F: Not after the meeting but before they got even started, the lead guy there to do the talking, he obviously didn't do his homework about the greeting customs and Japanese culture, he walked right up to Japanese CEO and gave him a big slam on the back, then he put one arm on him and continue talking, just like they were good old buddies.
F: Oh, gees, that probabaly would ever to find in USA, most people would think he's trying to be casual and freindly, but I bet the Japanese boss would feel pretty uncomfortable.
M: Yeah, uncomfortable's call off the whole deal
商务英语中级情景口语:预算
Budgets
Dialogue 1
M: How's a budget for the Adam's project?
F: We're still drafting the final budget, but it seems like we'll have quite a buffer. Don't worry about going over budget for supplies, our funds are more than enough.
M: Are you sure? Last year we went over by 30% on suppliers alone, the financial department was out of my head.
F: They remembered last year's mistake and alarm it , this year they've taken last year's spending into consideration, they've given you adequate fund this year.
M: That's good to know, other than the supplies budget, we still have overhead cost, where did the extra money come from to cover supplies.
F: Actually, it did come from the overhead, most of those materials are still left over from last year, so we anticipate reusing them, we cut corners a bit.
M: That might be a problem, have you looked at what was left from the last year? Many of the pieces are in bad shape, they might not be reuseble. Perhaps you should alert the budget committee before it's too late, we may need more money.
F: I'll talk to them and see what can be arranged.
Dialogue 2
M: How much do you have budget for our trip to Las Angeles?
F: In total, it should be about five thousand dollors for the week conference, would you like to see the breakdown?
M: Yes, I want to know exactly where the money is going, give me a detailed report.
F: First, we have the airline tickets which are five hundred dollars per person with four of us going, that's two thousand dollars, for our accommodations, we're spending eighty dollars a night per room for five days, that's another eight hundred dollars.
M: Won't you be able to find anything less expensive, we're sharing rooms, right?
F: I have two people to a room, the eighty dollars room rate is the lowest I could find. With the conferece going on that week, all the hotels have inflated their prices, they're making a killing.
M: So far, we've had twenty-eight hundred dollars, what else?
F: I have budget of twenty-five dollars per peron per day for food expenses, that totals another eight hundred dollars, and for other incidentals like taxe fees and tips, I have estimated four hundred dollars.
M: Well, that's only four thousand dollars, didn't tell me you budget was five thousand dollars? Where is the rest of money?
F: That's my buffer, I wanted to leave a little room in the budget just in case, it's better to be safe and thorough.