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Unit 1: work and jobs.............................................................................................................................2
Unit 2: ways of working.........................................................................................................................3
Unit 3: recruitment and selection..........................................................................................................4
Unit 4: skills and qualifications..............................................................................................................5
Unit 5: Pay and benefits.........................................................................................................................6
Unit 6: people and workplaces..............................................................................................................7
Unit 7: companies and careers..............................................................................................................9
Unit 8: problems at work.....................................................................................................................10
Unit 9: managers, executives, and directors........................................................................................11
Unit 10 businesspeople and business leaders......................................................................................14
Unit 11: organization 1.........................................................................................................................15
Unit 12: organization 2.........................................................................................................................16
unit 13: manufacturing and services....................................................................................................17
Unit 14: the development process.......................................................................................................18
Unit 15: innovation and invention.......................................................................................................19
Unit 16: products and services............................................................................................................20
Unit 17: materials and suppliers..........................................................................................................21
unit 18: business philosophies.............................................................................................................22
unit 19: buyers, sellers and the market................................................................................................23
Unit 20: markets and competitors.......................................................................................................24
Unit 21: marketing and market orientation.........................................................................................24
Unit 22: products and brands..............................................................................................................25
Unit 23: price.......................................................................................................................................26
Unit 24: place.......................................................................................................................................27
Unit 25: promotion..............................................................................................................................29
Unit 26 e-commerce............................................................................................................................30
Sales and costs.....................................................................................................................................31
unit 28: profitability and unprofitability...............................................................................................32
Unit 29: getting paid............................................................................................................................32
Unit 30: assets, liabilities, and the balance sheet................................................................................33
unit 31 the bottom line........................................................................................................................34
unit 32: share capital and debt............................................................................................................35
unit 33: success and failure..................................................................................................................36
unit 34: mergers, takeovers and sell-offs.............................................................................................37
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,Unit 35 : personal finance....................................................................................................................38
Unit 36: financial centers.....................................................................................................................39
unit 37: trading....................................................................................................................................40
Unit 38: indicators 1.............................................................................................................................41
Unit 38: indicatiors 2............................................................................................................................42
Unit 40: wrongdoing and corruption...................................................................................................43
Unit 41: business ethics.......................................................................................................................44
unit 42: time and time management...................................................................................................45
unit 43: stress and stress management...............................................................................................46
unit 44: leadership and management styles........................................................................................47
unit 45: business across cultures.........................................................................................................47
Unit 46: business accross cultures 2....................................................................................................48
English for business samenvatting (belangrijke zaken)
Unit 1: work and jobs
What do you do?
Work for (a company) werken voor
Work on (car design) aan het werken aan
Manage (a team) begeleid/beheer
(people) work under (me) werken voor/onder (mij)
In charge of (design budgets)
duidt op hebben van leiding, toezicht houden op of verantwoordelijkheid hebben voor
specifiek gebied of activiteit (benadrukt de rol van leidinggevende)
responsible for
duidt op verantwoordelijkheid hebben voor iets/iemand. Het benadrukt de verplichting om
voor taak of persoon verantwoordelijk te zijn
work with werken met (bv iemand)
WORD COMBINATIONS WITH ‘WORK’
The economy is growing fast, and more people are in work werk hebben
The percentage of people out of work has fallen zonder job
I don’t get ill very much so I don’t often take time off work weg van werk door ziekte
I leave for work at 8 every morning
I go to work by train
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,I get to/arrive at work at 9
Usually I’m at work till 6
TYPES OF JOBS AND TYPES OF WORK
Full-time job voltijds werken
Part-time job deeltijds werken
Permanent job permanente job
Temporary job job voor bepaalde periode
Unit 2: ways of working
WORKING HOURS
Office worker kantoormedewerker
Nine-to-five 9 tot 17 werk
Working hours werkuren
Swipe card pasje met magneetstrip
Clock (in/) on inklokken
Clock (out/) off uitklokken
Flexitime variabele/flexibele werktijden
Flextime synoniem voor flexitime, variabele/flexibele werktijden
Shifts diensten, wanneer je moet werken
Day shift dag shiften
Night shift nacht shiften
Overtime overuren/ extra uren
Commute pendelen of woonwerkverkeer (i have to commute to work every day by bike)
Work from home van thuis werken
Teleworking/telecommuting van thuis, of andere locatie buiten kantoor, werken
Commuters pendelaars
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT.
Al deze woorden worden gebruikt in relatie tot baan en werk (in front of job and work)
Satisfying, stimulating, fascinating, exciting werk is interessant en geeft je een positief gevoel
Dull, boring, unintresting, unstimulating het werk is niet interessant
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, Repetitive, routine het werk houdt in om dingen opnieuw en opnieuw te doen
Tiring, tough, hard, demanding werk is moeilijk en maakt je moe
(tiring geschreven, niet tirering!!!)
Unit 3: recruitment and selection
RECRUITMENT
Recruitment aanwerving
Hiring aanwerving
Recruited aangenomen
Recruit rekrut/ aangeworven persoon
A hire synoniem voor recruit, een nieuwe werknemer
Employs/hires aanemen
Join deelnemen
Recruiters/recruitment agencies/employment agencies wervingsbureaus/uitzendbureaus
Headhunted benaderd worden voor een baan (door headhunter)
Headhunting actief zoeken naar geschikte kandidaat voor bepaalde functies
APPLYING FOR A JOB
Situations vacant vacatures
Applied for gesolliciteerd voor.
Application form sollicitatieformulier
Job website vacaturesite (bv VDAB)
Made an application heft een vacature gemaakt
CV (curriculum vitea) CV
Covering letter motivatiebrief
Resume CV
SELECTION PROCEDURES
Selection process selectieproces
Background achtergrond
Applicant solicitant
Experience ervaring
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Unit 1: work and jobs.............................................................................................................................2
Unit 2: ways of working.........................................................................................................................3
Unit 3: recruitment and selection..........................................................................................................4
Unit 4: skills and qualifications..............................................................................................................5
Unit 5: Pay and benefits.........................................................................................................................6
Unit 6: people and workplaces..............................................................................................................7
Unit 7: companies and careers..............................................................................................................9
Unit 8: problems at work.....................................................................................................................10
Unit 9: managers, executives, and directors........................................................................................11
Unit 10 businesspeople and business leaders......................................................................................14
Unit 11: organization 1.........................................................................................................................15
Unit 12: organization 2.........................................................................................................................16
unit 13: manufacturing and services....................................................................................................17
Unit 14: the development process.......................................................................................................18
Unit 15: innovation and invention.......................................................................................................19
Unit 16: products and services............................................................................................................20
Unit 17: materials and suppliers..........................................................................................................21
unit 18: business philosophies.............................................................................................................22
unit 19: buyers, sellers and the market................................................................................................23
Unit 20: markets and competitors.......................................................................................................24
Unit 21: marketing and market orientation.........................................................................................24
Unit 22: products and brands..............................................................................................................25
Unit 23: price.......................................................................................................................................26
Unit 24: place.......................................................................................................................................27
Unit 25: promotion..............................................................................................................................29
Unit 26 e-commerce............................................................................................................................30
Sales and costs.....................................................................................................................................31
unit 28: profitability and unprofitability...............................................................................................32
Unit 29: getting paid............................................................................................................................32
Unit 30: assets, liabilities, and the balance sheet................................................................................33
unit 31 the bottom line........................................................................................................................34
unit 32: share capital and debt............................................................................................................35
unit 33: success and failure..................................................................................................................36
unit 34: mergers, takeovers and sell-offs.............................................................................................37
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,Unit 35 : personal finance....................................................................................................................38
Unit 36: financial centers.....................................................................................................................39
unit 37: trading....................................................................................................................................40
Unit 38: indicators 1.............................................................................................................................41
Unit 38: indicatiors 2............................................................................................................................42
Unit 40: wrongdoing and corruption...................................................................................................43
Unit 41: business ethics.......................................................................................................................44
unit 42: time and time management...................................................................................................45
unit 43: stress and stress management...............................................................................................46
unit 44: leadership and management styles........................................................................................47
unit 45: business across cultures.........................................................................................................47
Unit 46: business accross cultures 2....................................................................................................48
English for business samenvatting (belangrijke zaken)
Unit 1: work and jobs
What do you do?
Work for (a company) werken voor
Work on (car design) aan het werken aan
Manage (a team) begeleid/beheer
(people) work under (me) werken voor/onder (mij)
In charge of (design budgets)
duidt op hebben van leiding, toezicht houden op of verantwoordelijkheid hebben voor
specifiek gebied of activiteit (benadrukt de rol van leidinggevende)
responsible for
duidt op verantwoordelijkheid hebben voor iets/iemand. Het benadrukt de verplichting om
voor taak of persoon verantwoordelijk te zijn
work with werken met (bv iemand)
WORD COMBINATIONS WITH ‘WORK’
The economy is growing fast, and more people are in work werk hebben
The percentage of people out of work has fallen zonder job
I don’t get ill very much so I don’t often take time off work weg van werk door ziekte
I leave for work at 8 every morning
I go to work by train
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,I get to/arrive at work at 9
Usually I’m at work till 6
TYPES OF JOBS AND TYPES OF WORK
Full-time job voltijds werken
Part-time job deeltijds werken
Permanent job permanente job
Temporary job job voor bepaalde periode
Unit 2: ways of working
WORKING HOURS
Office worker kantoormedewerker
Nine-to-five 9 tot 17 werk
Working hours werkuren
Swipe card pasje met magneetstrip
Clock (in/) on inklokken
Clock (out/) off uitklokken
Flexitime variabele/flexibele werktijden
Flextime synoniem voor flexitime, variabele/flexibele werktijden
Shifts diensten, wanneer je moet werken
Day shift dag shiften
Night shift nacht shiften
Overtime overuren/ extra uren
Commute pendelen of woonwerkverkeer (i have to commute to work every day by bike)
Work from home van thuis werken
Teleworking/telecommuting van thuis, of andere locatie buiten kantoor, werken
Commuters pendelaars
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT.
Al deze woorden worden gebruikt in relatie tot baan en werk (in front of job and work)
Satisfying, stimulating, fascinating, exciting werk is interessant en geeft je een positief gevoel
Dull, boring, unintresting, unstimulating het werk is niet interessant
Pagina 3 van 49
, Repetitive, routine het werk houdt in om dingen opnieuw en opnieuw te doen
Tiring, tough, hard, demanding werk is moeilijk en maakt je moe
(tiring geschreven, niet tirering!!!)
Unit 3: recruitment and selection
RECRUITMENT
Recruitment aanwerving
Hiring aanwerving
Recruited aangenomen
Recruit rekrut/ aangeworven persoon
A hire synoniem voor recruit, een nieuwe werknemer
Employs/hires aanemen
Join deelnemen
Recruiters/recruitment agencies/employment agencies wervingsbureaus/uitzendbureaus
Headhunted benaderd worden voor een baan (door headhunter)
Headhunting actief zoeken naar geschikte kandidaat voor bepaalde functies
APPLYING FOR A JOB
Situations vacant vacatures
Applied for gesolliciteerd voor.
Application form sollicitatieformulier
Job website vacaturesite (bv VDAB)
Made an application heft een vacature gemaakt
CV (curriculum vitea) CV
Covering letter motivatiebrief
Resume CV
SELECTION PROCEDURES
Selection process selectieproces
Background achtergrond
Applicant solicitant
Experience ervaring
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