eBusiness.pptVIP

e-Business English Department, Huzhou Teachers College Objectives To enable students to talk about e-business. To practice reading for specific information. To practice describing trends in writing. Tasks and Schemes Writing exercise Self-study 4a4b Reading test on p56. Assignment. Writing Exercise: look at the graph showing the predicted growth of worldwide Internet commerce and then write a 120-140 word report comparing e-business and e-commerce. I. Explanation of the graph: There’s no business like Internet business. 什么行业也比不上网络业。 Emerging business model: fundamental characteristics 新兴行业模式：基本特点 Empower: to give somebody power or lawful right to do something. 其名词形式为empowerment, 可解释为“权利下放”。例如： Empowerment seeks to break this downward spiral of powerlessness by giving employees a sense of real control. II. The example writing: The last years of the twentieth century saw the Internet being used by more and more companies as a business tool. In 1997 e-commerce was very limited earning a revenue of less than $25 billion. However, since then, there has been a steady growth worldwide. This trend looks set to continue into the next century with revenue from e-commerce rising to reach almost $200 billion by 2003. Like e-commerce, e-business has shown steady growth with revenue tripling in the period 1997 to 2000, rising from about $50 billion to $150 billion. However, during there is predicted to be a far more dramatic increase in e-business revenue over the next three years. It is thought that by 2003 revenue from e-business will have reached over $800 billion worldwide. self-study 4a: I. Do the following statements refer to positive or negative situations at work? Negative. 最近他干得太过劳累了。 2) Positive. 新来的部门经理在我们中间创立了团队精神。Line manager有“直属经理、直属主管、部门经理”之意，还可以作“业务经理”讲，与staff manager”行政经理”相对。 Negative. 一些员工正在拼命适应一些新技术。 4) Negative. 我们注意到，自从使用电子邮件以来，古老传统的礼貌举止和言辞便趋向消亡了。 5) Positive. 配备了新的工作站电脑以后，处理起机密文件就更方便一些了。 6) Positive. 实行弹性工