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BAHASA INGGRIS 3

ENTERTAINING

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ENTERTAINING

Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1

CORPORATE ENTERTAING

Imagine you have to entertain a group of foreign business people. Whichof the following activities would you choose? What would you add?

• historic sites• nightclub• theatre• opera/ concert• wine tasting• horse racing

• motor racing• golf• football• tennis• restaurant• art galleries

Put the following into a logical order for entertaining in a restaurant.

• look at the menu

• ask for the bill / check

• book a table / make a reservation

• leave a tip

• have the main course

• have a dessert

• order starter

• have an aperitif

READING • By Ken Hijino and David Ibison

Hisako Saka, a hostess at a bar called bouquet in Tokto’s high classentertainment area, is complaining. ‘Customers go home before the lasttrain and order far fewer drinks. They are less cheerful and talk aboutrestructuring all the time,’ she said.

‘Fewer girls are deciding to become hostesses. My salary has halved.’Corporate entertaining is in step decline. Newly released figures fromJapan’s National Taxation Administration have revealed that Japanesecompanies spent 13.3 percent less on entertaining and gifts in the year tolast January than in the previous year.

The latest figures show spending on entertainment is at its secondlowest level since records began in 1961. The decline indicates that thehigh spending days off the 1980’s are over and that a new phenomenon –cost – control has entered the corporate dictionary.

As the credit environment has tightened, losses have multiplied,restructuring has taken hold and the concept of shareholder value has crossed thePacific, leading to entertainment budgets being cut. In the boom days someexecutives would think little of running up a £7,000 bill in one night entertaining animportant client.

These days the entertainment still goes on but at more modestestablishment. Cheaper restaurants are busier and karaoke parlours are eing chosenover expensive nightclubs.

Kunio Sato, a bar owner for the past 35 years in Ginza, Tokyo’s mostfamous entertainments area, said sadly, ‘Companies are much stricter these dayswith what they will let their employees spend compared with the old days.The cost cutting does not end at the bar. Some of Japan’s huge conglomerates havecut down ritual corporate gift giving. Budgets for gifts at New Year have, in somecases, been cancelled, forcing employees to buy the gifts themselves, according toan employee at one large conglomerate.

From the outside, the discovery by Japanese companies of basic costcontrol can be seen as an encouraging development in an economy that hadpreviously let spending run wild.

statements true or false?Now read the article carefully. Are the followingstatements true or false?

• The number of bar hostesses is increasing• Spending on entertainment is the lowest since 1961• Saving money is now important to businesses in Japan• Entertaining in restaurants and karaoke bars is still important• Nightclubs are less important for entertaining than in the past• Employees prefer to pay for corporate gift giving themselves at

New Year

Language Review (Multi – word Verb )

• A multi – word verb is a verb and one or two particles (prepositions oradverbs). Look at the following examples from the text.…..executives would think little of running up a £7,000 bill……

• Some of Japan’s huge conglomerates have cut down ritual corporate gift givingIt may be possible o guess the general meaning of the multi – word verbsabove. However, sometimes a new meaning is created.I have to turn down their offer of dinner (=refuse)

• Some multi – word verbs can be separated from their particlesI called off the meeting, or I called the meeting off (=cancel)

• Some multi – word verbs cannot be separatedShe paid for the drinks, no she paid the drinks for

Useful Language

Introducing people • Jurgen, this is Lisa• Anita, do you know Dr Olafson?• Have you met Nigel?• Peter, I’d like you to meet Steve Jones.

Making small talk• ‘How’s business?’ ‘We are having a great year’• ‘How are things?’ ‘It’s really busy at the moment.’

Request

•Could I use your phone, please?

•Do you mind if I take one of your brochures?

Offers

•Can I give you one of my cards?

•Would you like to have dinner with us tomorrow night?

Responding

•Pleased to meet you

•Nice to meet you

•Good to see you again

DAFTAR PUSTAKA

• Catton David, Falvey David , and Kent Simon, MARKET LEADER, Course Book, Pre-Intermediate Business English, 2002, Edinburg Gate, Harlow, Essex, CM 2JE, England.

• Trappe Tonva. 2005. Intelligent Business. England: Pearson Education Limited

• Azar. S. Betty. 1989. Understanding and Using English Grammar 2nd

Edition. New Jersey: Prentice – Hall, Inc• Philips Deborah.2001. Preparation Course for the TOEFL Test: New York:

Addison Wesley Longman • Wishon, E.G & Burks. M. Julia. 1980. Let’s Write English Revised Edition.

New York: Litton Educational Publishing• Oshima, A & Hogue A. 1997. Writing Academic English Second Edition:

New York: Addison Wesley Longman• Karnedi. 2001. Grammar Translation Exercises: Pusat Penerbitan

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