Bribery and Business Ethics Unit 6 Stage 1: Warming-up Activities Stage 2: Reading-Centred Activities Stage 3: After-Reading Activities Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking.

Bribery and Business Bribery and Business EthicsEthics

Unit 6Unit 6

StageStage 1: Warming-up Activities 1: Warming-up Activities StageStage 1: Warming-up Activities 1: Warming-up Activities

Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities Stage 3: After-Reading ActivitiesStage 3: After-Reading Activities

Stage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking PracticeStage 4: Listening-and-Speaking Practice

Warming-up ActivitiesWarming-up Activities

Group work Group work

Questions for thought and discussionQuestions for thought and discussion

Background information Background information

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following words Comparing the following words

Group work Group work

Questions for thought and discussionQuestions for thought and discussion

Background information Background information

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following words Comparing the following words

Group workGroup work

Go over the preview, the pre-reading questions and the title of the text before listening to the summary of the story and anticipate what we are going to read.

Questions for thought and Questions for thought and discussiondiscussion

Listen to a short passage Listen to a short passage carefully and then answer carefully and then answer the following questions .the following questions .

Background informationBackground information• Chrysler Corporation: Chrysler Corporation, foun

ded in 1924, used to be one of the three largest American automobile manufacturers whose brands include both passenger and commercial vehicles such as Chrysler, Jeep® and Dodge. The other two largest American automobile manufacturers are General Motors and Ford. In addition to auto making, Chrysler is also engaged in financial services, providing loan services (mostly) to car buyers. In 1998 it merged with Daimler-Benz AG (of Germany) (best known for its Mercedes-Benz brand name) to become part of the Daimler Chrysler Corporation, which is jointly owned by European, U.S. and other international investors.

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): A U.S. government agency, whose mission is to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets. The Commission was set up by the U.S. Congress in 1933 in response to the aftermath of the “Black Monday”, the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929. It purpose was to restore investor confidence in the U.S. capital markets by providing more structure and government oversight. It is based on the concept that all investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an investment prior to buying it.

To achieve this, the SEC requires public companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public, which provides a common pool of knowledge for all investors to use to judge for themselves if a company’s securities are a good investment. It is believed that only through the steady flow of timely, comprehensive and accurate information can people make sound investment decisions. At present the SEC is comprised of five presidentially-appointed Commissioners, four Divisions and 18 Offices, with a total of about 3,100 staff.

• International Chamber of Commerce: The aim of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), founded in 1919, is to serve world business by promoting trade and investment, open markets for goods and services, and the free flow of capital. Its activities cover a broad spectrum, from arbitration and dispute resolution to making the case for open trade and the market economy system, business self-regulation, fighting corruption or combating commercial crime. ICC is made of a World Council (its governing body) and individual national committees and groups. Individual companies, corporations, professional associations as well as individuals can also join ICC as individual members.

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Read the sentences carefully and guess the meaning of the italicized term in each sentence according to the context and your own experiences.

• Baxter was a man who could not be bought with a bribe or silenced by threats or prison.

• It is a disaster to find your politicians can be bribed, and that your judges and lawyers are neither responsible nor honest.

• That country has uncovered 100,000 cases of bribery and corruption this year, said one government officer.

贿赂

用金钱买通

行贿受贿

• Medical ethics do not permit doctors to advertise.

• Ethics is a branch of philosophy.

• The puritan ethic was being replaced by the Hedonist ethic, right there in the heartland.

• People become homeless for a wide range of reasons, and sadly homelessness is on the increase, particularly among younger people.

医德伦理学

伦理观

越来越多

• All-night parties with music and dancing have become a way of life for a large section of young people.

• If your parcel is lost or damaged, compensation may be paid up according to the fee paid.

• Washington, he said, stood by its commitment to financially support European countries in their reconstruction after World War II.

生活方式

支付

信守

• In practice the distinction between the two is not so clear-cut.

• He was accused of calling for the violent overthrow of the government.

• The Act applies to violence and violent threats whether in public or in private.

• It doesn't matter whether I like it or not; it's a fact of life.

在实践中

被指控

在公开场合或者在私下里

现实

• The library consisted of two rooms, but the only entry to the inner room was through the outer one.

• This photo is considered to be evidence in support of the theory, which Einstein believed to be the basis of the physical universe.

• The former foreign minister, who is under investigation for corruption, quit after the arrest of his assistant.

由…组成

支持

受到调查

• Inspect stored fruit every week and throw out any that has started to go rotten.

• It wouldn‘t be long before he closed a deal with one of the chain stores.

• It can be argued that computer communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously.

扔掉

达成交易

加速

• Howard realizes that he has hit upon a solution to one of the main problems in enjoying a satisfactory life-style.

• This distinguished between the temporary unemployment of skilled workers in periods of depression and the permanent underemployment of workers with limited or no skills.

• I sometimes have difficulty distinguishing Spanish from Portuguese.

忽然想出

区分

辨别

• The court accepted that these facts amounted to a reasonable suspicion.

• He did all the things we know he is capable of doing and that he behaved himself as well.

• I knew he was on the take, but I never had enough evidence to show to the court.

• His statement doesn‘t square with the facts.

意味着

行为规矩

受贿

相符

• It‘s like being caught in a huge sticky web — the more you struggle, the more entangled you get.

• Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures.

• He got caught up in the drug business.

• I found myself caught up in an expensive legal battle.

陷入

处于

卷入

卷入

Homework Homework

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text by heart.

• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of the text.

• Analyze the structure of the text.

Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

1. Global Reading Task • Reading Skills: • Text structure analysis:

2. Detailed Reading Task • Language points• Simulated writing• Summary of the text

After-Reading ActivitiesAfter-Reading Activities

• Vocabulary Exercises

• Translating and Writing

Listening and speaking activities

• Talking about the topic or retelling the text

• Listening and speaking practice in XP center