Curso de Inglés Comercial y de Negocios

Listen to business people talking at a conference during a coffee break and complete the information. Listen as many times as necessary.

Name:
Job /Company:
Hotel:
Extra Information:

Listen to the conversations again

1. 2. 3. 4.

and read the transcription.

Listen to the following conversations and decide if the people know each other or if it’s the first time they’ve met.

1.
2.
3.
4.

Now complete some expressions from the previous conversations. Write one word in each space. Listen again if necessary.

1. to Amsterdam before?
2. What , by the way?
3. you a drink?
4. So, based?
5. What are you in?
6. sitting here?
7. No, guest.
8. enjoying the conference?
9. some red wine?
10. So, you been with Sun Life?
11. Excuse me, but somewhere before?
12. staying here?
13. on business?
14. Yes please, lovely!
15. excuse me for a moment, I’ll back.

Listen and repeat the expressions.

Listen to the conversations again

1. 2. 3. 4.

and read the transcription.

conference centre: Palacio de congresos, centro de congresos
conference coordinator: Coordinador del congreso
conference delegate: Delegado del congreso
conference hall: Salón de congresos
conference interpreter: Intérprete (de conferencias)
conference pack: Documentación (material) del congreso
conference room: (Sala de juntas, sala de reuniones)
conference table: Mesa de reuniones

U.S. comments that it would resist any binding commitment to curb global warming by capping industrial emissions infuriated environmentalists, who accused Washington of trying to derail the U.N. Climate Change Conference.

"When you walk around the conference hall here, delegates are saying there are lots of issues on the agenda, but there's only one real problem, and that's the United States," said Bill Hare of Greenpeace International.

More than 8,000 environmentalists, scientists and government officials were attending the 10-day conference in Montreal. Some 120 environment ministers and other government leaders were expected to arrive next week for the final negotiations.

The conference is the first meeting of the 140 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol since the agreement was adopted in 1997. It is aimed at setting agreements on emissions cuts planned after 2012, when the second phase of the protocol begins.