写作训练

Writing: formulate a smoking policy for your office which is fair to both smokers and non-smokers. Write a 40-50 word memo informing all staff of the policy.
为你的办公室制定一个关于吸烟的制度,做到对吸烟员工和不吸烟员工都公平。写一个40-50字的备忘录,将这一制度告知每个员工。

参考例文

Memo

To: all staff

From: Charles Dyer

Date: 7 July 2000

Re: Smoking policy

As there are only two smokers in this building, they have agreed to smoke outside. However they will need regular cigarette breaks. Please consider smokers when organizing meetings. You are advised to plan breaks at least every two hours.

Problems at work 工作中的问题

口语练习

Speaking: Do you think any of the speakers were treated unfairly?
你认为以上5个员工中是否有谁受到了不公正的待遇?

口语练习

Work in pairs. As a manager, how would you deal with the incidents below? Would you?
作为经理,你应该对一下所列的各种情况?你是否会:

Take no action against the person?

Have a friendly word with the person?

Give an official verbal warning?

Give an official written warning?

Dismiss the person?

对他不采取行动

对他好言相劝

给他正式的口头警告

给他正式的书面警告

解雇他

1. An employee who repeatedly refuses to observe safety requirements has caused a small fire. Little damage has been caused and no-one has been hurt.

2. You hear that an employee has physically threatened a colleague. This is the first time he has behaved this way.

3. An employee has told a friend ( a journalist) about secret negotiations your company is having about the takeover of another company. The story appears on the front page of a national newspaper.

4. An employee has come to work and is acting strangely. You talk to her and can smell alcohol on her breath.

5. You discover that information a new employee has included on her curriculum vitae is not true. She has exaggerated her experience and lied about her qualifications.

6. A new member of the secretarial staff arrives a few minutes late and leaves a few minutes early every day. Also, she takes fifteen minutes or more extra at lunchtime. Several of her colleagues have been heard to complain about this.

7. As you are leaving the office, you notice an employee putting a packet of photocopier paper in his bag.

8. An employee, frustrated with his computer, has hit it violently. The machine is irreparable and a replacement will cost £1,200.

1 一名员工多次拒不遵守安全规则,引起了一场小火灾。但火灾几乎没有造成什么损失,也没有造成人员受伤。

2 你听说有一名员工对同事进行武力威胁,这是他第一次有这样的行为。

3 一名员工向他的朋友(一名记者)泄漏公司秘密,告诉他公司正在进行关于购另一公司的谈判,这一消息便出现在一家全国性报纸的头板上。

4 一名员工来上班,但举止古怪。你和她谈话时可以闻到她呼吸中有酒气。

5 你发现一名新员工的个人简历中提供的信息不真实,她夸大了自己的经历并在其资质方面说了谎。

6 一名新来的文秘人员每天上班迟到几分钟、下班早退几分钟,而且午餐时间也别人多用15分钟甚至更多的时间。听说她的几个同事对此有抱怨。

7 你离开办公室时,看到一名员工把一包复印纸装人自己的包里。

8 一名员工因为电脑出问题而感到沮丧,于是他猛击电脑,给这台电脑造成无法补救的损坏,而买一台新的电脑需要花费1200英镑。

参考词语和表达

safety is the first priority of the company
安全是公司优先考虑的事情。

Learn to be co-operative and respect your colleague
学会合作并尊重同事

Breach confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements and bring about heavy loss to the company
违反了保密和不泄密协议,给公司造成了重大损失

Awareness of business secrets
保护商业秘密的意识

Discourage employees from drinking at work
阻止员工在上班时喝酒

You cannot work with a hangover
酒醉后无法工作

Promote honesty
弘扬诚信

Violate code of business conduct and ethics
违反商业行为和道德准则

Strictly observe honesty principle
遵守诚实的原则

Willful destruction of the company property is vandalism
肆意毁坏公司财物是故意毁坏公物的行为

Indemnify for the damaged property
对所毁坏财物做出赔偿

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