Unit 7 A Christmas Carol
t:are you ready?
ss:yes.
t:group 1,please talk about the responsibilities of businessmen towards their employees.
group 1:we think some businessmen must improve the working conditions,use the necessary equipment,and take safe measures to make sure of their workers’ safety.if they can work in safe and clean working places,they may not be hurt or poisoned.only in this way can the workers make better products and serve the society better.besides,companies should think of their workers,make sure of their legitimate rights and interests,and care for their welfare,especially the rights of the women workers and the disabled.in addition,companies should buy the workers labour insurance,life and accident insurances.once they are injured in the working places,they have enough money to get treatment in the hospital.as for this,laws must be made to punish the companies and bosses that break the laws.
t:quite right.group 2,what do you think is their responsibilities to their customers?
group 2:we think companies must make safety products and make sure of product quality,especially food and medicine.if their products are not up to safety standards and hygiene,they may cause people to fall ill,be disabled,even die.the reports from newspapers and tv programmes show that they are lack of social conscience.they put something that is bad for people’s health in the food and medicine to reduce the costs.and doing this can make the products look good to increase their sales.they sell such unsafe products to people only to think about the money they can make.they never think of what bad effects the products have on customers and the suffering they have.about this,something must be done to punish them.they must be responsible for the people.
t:ok.are there any other opinions?
group 3:what’s more,companies must put more funds for protecting our environment.they only have their eyes for making money and pay little money in dealing with the waste water and waste gas.they are put into the river and air without being dealt with.we live in a polluted world.our country can’t develop economy at the cost of destroying our environment.
t:excellent.as a matter of fact,the most important quality the business people mustn’t lack is social respon-sibilities.without them,they can’t make people trust them.nor can they make a great fortune.
step ⅶ summary and homework
t:in this period,we’ve talked about some pictures and known something about dickens’ novels.we’ve also discussed the responsibilities of business people towards both their employees and their customers.and we’ve done some listening and learnt some new words and an important phrase“care for”.after class,remember all the new words learnt today.as for dickens,if you want to know further information about him and the time he lived in,you’d better surf the internet.i’m sure you’ll get a lot.meanwhile,search for information about christmas day through the internet.in the next period,i’ll ask you to report your findings.so much for today.class is over.