Business Meeting Part 2

Finally, I managed to finish the second part of this lesson. It was not easy, but it was quite fun. I hope you enjoy it!
Finalmente consegui terminar a segunda parte desta lição. Não foi fácil, mas foi bastante divertido. Espero que vocês gostem.
Por fin logré terminar la segunda parte de esta lección. No fue fácil, pero fue muy divertido. Espero que les guste.

VIDEO!!!

SCRIPT OF THE CONVERSATION:

Simone: Hi Paul, how are you?

Paul: Fine! And yourself?

Simone: Not bad. So, did you look at my proposal?

Paul: No, I didn’t really have time. Can we go over it now?

Simone: Sure. I’ve been thinking about our competitors and if we want to stay competitive we need to modernize our factory. Besides that I also came up with some advertising strategies.

Paul: How much will that cost?

Simone: We have several options ranging from one hundred thousand dollars to half a million.

Paul: We’ll have to discuss that with finance.

Simone: Yes, and e would also need to hire two engineers to help us modernize the factory.

Paul: What about advertising?

Simone: Marketing has some nice ideas for TV commercials.

Paul: TV commercials? Isn’t that a bit too expensive for us?

Simone: I’ll check the costs of it, but quite frankly the higher costs will be justified. We need to be more aggressive to be ahead of our competitors and these investments will result in higher profits for our company.

Paul: We’ll have to take a closer look at these figures, so I want a budget for these investments by the end of the week.

Simone: Ok, absolutely.

Business Meeting - Part I

Let's start this lesson a bit differently. Click on the button Click here. It will open another window. You will see the topic Business Meeting. Under that there will be: I. Pre-Listening Exercises. You can ignore this part and go straight to II. Listening Exercises. I suggest that you read the questions before listening if you are a beginner, this will help you know what to look for when you are listening. Answer the questions and finally click on the button Final Score. It will show you your result.
At the end of the page there is a box with the Correct Answers. After that you will see Review Quiz Script. Click on the Quiz Script to read all the conversation you listened.

CLICK HERE

To be continued...