English Unlimited HAK/HUM 3, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM (mit Handelskorrespondenz)

47 Sorting things out 04 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Work in pairs or groups of three and discuss the questions. 1 What do you think of the different thinking strategies? 2 Which strategy represents the way you usually think and make decisions? In pairs, discuss which verbs you think go with 1–9. Then check your ideas in the introduction and article. 4 VOCABULARY 5 Decision- making Think about a decision you have to make. It could be from one of the topics in 1a. 1 In turn, explain the situation to a group. 2 Think about the situation using one strategy at a time. Try all the strategies. Talk together. Which strategy or strategies helped you make your decision? 6 a b Listen to Simon, Lydia and Yelena talking about their new business. What kind of business is it? What are they discussing? Listen again. Who: 1 is running the meeting? 2 suggests opening an additional room? 3 is not happy about doing more hours? 4 comes up with new ideas? 5 has prepared something? 6 is a bit negative about all the ideas? Which thinking strategy do you think each person is using? Why? Listen again and complete the sentences using a maximum of four words. Add a comma where necessary. 1 The institute is much busier . 2 They could do even more business if they . 3 If they they’ll be able to tutor a lot more students. 4 Yelena is to take on extra hours. 5 The names Simon has put in the timetable . 6 If they they would take home less money. 7 Rather than advertise the job vacancy in the local paper, they decide to think of . LISTENING 7 TCD 1/21 Yelena, Simon and Lydia 8 a b 9 1 m decisions 2 s problems 3 t your intuition ake 4 l to your heart 5 l at the facts 6 c up with a new plan 7 b ideas 8 d solutions 9 h a meeting Problems and solutions Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv