We have seen that in the early stages of doing a job courtesy 禮貌 can help you establish good relations with your colleagues. Do you have the language you need to make requests and to thank people for helping you in a natural way?

In this programme you will hear a clip of someone on the first day of an internship who uses some authentic phrases to get people to help her. Our language expert Simon Cuddihy practises these phrases with our regular panel of Chinese students from the LSE.

在我們的網站上你可以看到商務課堂同學們的介紹。在團隊協作商務專家的頁面里你還可以看到此節目錄音片段的文字稿。請登錄 bbcukchina.com/learningenglish 然后點擊 BBC Business Class.

在收聽之前

Think about the following questions:

• Have you ever been to an English-speaking country?
• What were the differences in that country from China in what counted as polite behaviour?

Now imagine that you are on holiday in London. You have lost your way and need to ask for directions. What polite language would you use to stop people and to ask for help, and to thank them for sending you the right way?

關于 Simon Cuddihy

Simon 是一位擁有十年英語教學經驗的英語語言專家。在過去的五年里，Simon 的主要授課領域為高等教育中的學術英語。Simon 目前在倫敦政治與經濟學院任教，主教英語書寫技巧。

關于董征

董征多年來一直在BBC國際臺擔任節目制作和主持工作。她在中英商貿界也是頗有影響的一位人物。董征在英國曾先后擔任過倫敦證券交易所上 市公司的中國業務總監、PLUS上市投資公司集團業務總監等。董征目前在一家中英投資貿易咨詢業務公司擔任總經理。

下集預告

在 BBC Business Class 下集節目中，我們開始談論一個讓很多人畏懼的話題：商務推介演示。我們的商務專家會跟大家分享她的寶貴經驗，還會談到她認為在做推介演示時應當注意的三個重要的方面。