1. Week 13 –
Innovation
Business English
Professor Hayashi

2. Today’s Class
 Review
 Vocabulary
 Language Review
 Presentations
 Case Study

3. Review – Ethics / Leadership
 Fill-in-the blanks
2) LG’s latest cell phone looks suspiciously similar to Samsung’s.
We suspect ______________________.
industrial espionage
3) We had to sign a ____________________________ stating that
confidentiality agreement
we could not disclose any of the company’s business plan.
4) The pharmaceutical company offered ________ to doctors
for prescribing a certain medication. bribes
5) The opposite of magnetic is _____________.
repulsive
6) The opposite of impulsive is _____________.
cautious

4. Review – Ethics / Leadership
 Which tense is normally used for:
2) events in the story Past Simple
3) setting the scene and providing background
information Past Continuous
4) saying what the present results of the story are
Present Perfect
6) events which happen before the story begins
Past Perfect

5. Review – Ethics / Leadership
 Tell a story about an unusual or memorable
experience while you were travelling
 Be sure to use Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past
Perfect, Present Perfect

6. Vocabulary
 PARTNER TIME!
 Do exercises A, C, D on page 109
Exercise A:
2)discovery
3)brainwave
4)pioneers
5)R & D (research & development)
6)concept
7)prototype
8)setback
9)drawing board
10)breakthrough
11)patent

7. Vocabulary – Pg. 109
 Exercise C
brilliant + beneficial + silly - life-saving +
pointless - ridiculous - time-saving + annoying -
wasteful - life-changing + practical + money-saving +
revolutionary + space-saving + ground-
breaking +

8. Language Review – Pg. 111
 Exercise A, B, C
 Which are passive?
 2
 3
 4
 6
 7
 8
 10

9. Language Review
 Exercise B
b) was tested
c) was developed
d) was carried out
e) was tested
f) were approved
g) was applied for
h) were published
i) was granted
j) were trained
Order: c, b, a, d, g, e, f, h, i

10. Listening – Pg. 112
 Let’s listen to exercise A
 Exercise A
3. Think about your audience, visit the room, prepare what
you are going to say.
4. Ask a question, use a famous quotation, striking visual
image, appeal directly to audience’s interests or needs
5. Opening and brief introduction, main body, conclusion,
question and answer session

11. Presenting
 Review “Useful Language”
 Prepare a short presentation of 3-5 minutes on
the topic of your choice
 Be silly! Have fun! Go bananas!

12. Homework
 Pg 130 – Reading/Passive exercises