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BRITISH MANAGEMENT
According to an article in Management Today, the British manager still stops work for tea. The French managing director of Novotel, the hotel group, tells what happened at his first management meeting when he took over its English operation in 1991:
"The meeting was in the afternoon, and it got to about 3.30 and everyone started looking at their watches. I didn't know what was going on. I turned to my secretary, who was English, and she said that they probably wanted to break for tea. I couldn't understand it. In France we just carry on until we have finished. Now we always break for tea."
I am not sure how many English managers now break for tea. Not that many, I imagine. Twenty years ago it was commonplace. I will never forget a Canadian sales director, pink with fury, telling me at that time how he had been offered tea and biscuits at three in the afternoon in Northampton: "I come three thousand miles, and take three taxis and a damn steam engine into the sticks, and I wanna do business, and this guy gives me a `nice cup of China tea and a biccy'. What IS he?" Mind you, this was the same man who in Rome told his Italian agent that the Colosseum would make a nice parking lot.
It is not so much the cup of tea as the pint of bitter that managers from outside Britain find a bar to efficiency. In the article, a German manager tells how when he first took over a job in Britain, he discovered that at lunchtime and especially on Fridays, the majority of his management team left for the pub. He says: "I stopped that right away. Now they are not allowed off the premises. It didn't make me very popular at the time but it is not good for efficiency. There is no way we would do that in Germany. No way."
According to European managers the British are still too concerned with class and status. A German says: "People say that the class system is a hindrance to progress and then two weeks later you overhear them discussing a colleague and saying, `Well, he is not very well-spoken, is he?'" And another says: "The class gaps translate into big gulfs in the pay league, too. In Germany, I might earn three times more than my secretary. Here it is five times."
Some criticisms are rather like those levelled at Japanese management. For example, talking about status, a Dutch manager says: "A director is God here. They respect him and think that he is right even when he is wrong. It's quite difficult to have an open conversation. People will not say `I disagree'."
Too great an interest in money is also criticised. A Dutch manager says: "My first impression on coming to Britain was that profit seemed to be the most important thing." And a Frenchman points out the difference between the UK and France: "In France there is no pressure on the bottom line."
The French manager also points out a difference in educational standards: "In France all the secretaries, or personal assistants as we call them, would have degrees. You wouldn't consider recruiting one without a degree. So, that means you can delegate much more to the secretaries in France. In the UK you cannot do that so much."
1. In the middle of the afternoon
A. everyone checked their watches.
B. hinted that it was teatime.
C. took a break.
D. noticed it was 3.30.
2. In the past
A. managers usually had a teabreak.
B. offered visitors China tea.
C. wasted a lot of time drinking tea.
D. drank a lot of tea.
3. The Canadian
A. was impressed by the Englishman's good manners.
B. had travelled a long way.
C. liked to do business.
D. considered his time was being wasted.
4. Why did the Canadian say the Colosseum would make a nice parking lot?
A. He had nowhere to park.
B. He was joking.
C. He was worried about Rome's traffic problems.
D. He was envious of Italy's glorious past.
5. What is meant by a “bar” in line 19?
A. a straight stick made of metal.
B. anything that obstructs or prevents.
C. a place where especially alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk.
D. a small informal restaurant where hot drinks, cakes and small meals are served.
6. The German didn't like his managers going to the pub because
A. he was against drink.
B. they got drunk.
C. it made them inefficient.
D. he believed playing sports would be better for them.
7. To stop them going to the pub, the managers
A. were ordered to stay in the office.
B. were given free lunches in the office.
C. played team games in the lunch-hour.
D. had meetings at lunchtime.
8. In Britain, managers are paid much more than their secretaries because of
A. sexism.
B. education.
C. class.
D. elocution.
9. English and Japanese managers are similar in that they
A. are tactful.
B. like tea.
C. avoid disagreement.
D. have a superiority complex.
10. In comparison with the British secretary, a French secretary
A. is better paid.
B. has more status.
C. is better spoken.
D. can take more responsibility.
Объяснение:
You have received a letter from your English-speaking pen friend, Ben.
Write him a letter and answer his 3 questions.
Write 100–120 words. Remember the rules of letter writing.
прівєт… I am very busy now preparing for my exams but yesterday I went to
the cinema with my friends. We saw a new film about Sherlock Holmes.
You’ve probably seen it too. …
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you had a chance?…
It took her just over thirty hours to complete the distance, and for nearly ten of those hours she was swimming in complete darkness.
Everyone applauded Brenda for her strength and stamina, but they also applauded her for her bravery in tackling this most mysterious of Scottish lakes.
Fact or Fiction?
Loch Ness is the legendary home of probably the world's most famous monster.
In fact, less than three weeks before Brenda made her journey, the monster, or 'Nessie', as it's known to the local people, had made yet another appearance.
Four people reported seeing three great black humps on the loch surface, and said they had watched them travelling at high speed for three minutes before the creature dived.
There are reports of similar appearances as far back as the last century and every summer many new appearances are reported.
Is the monster fact or fiction?
Experts have been discussing that question for years, but in recent times more and more people have become convinced that a whole colony of giant creatures may live in the loch.
In 1962 a group of people formed an organization called the Bureau for the Investigation of the Loch Ness Phenomena.
Each summer, the Bureau enlists the aid of volunteers who watch the loch in daylight hours. And in 1966, they established powerful cameras on the banks to try for a picture that would prove 'Nessie's' existence.
Other people have photographed something on the loch's surface, but the pictures have never been quite good enough to convince anyone, although a film made in 1961 convinced a lot of people that there's something there.
The film was examined by photographic experts, who reported that it showed an object twenty-eight metres long, travelling at sixteen kilometres per hour.