Stories for English Learners
11. A Marketing Meeting
Learn English with this Audio-story and test your knowledge with the English exercises at the end of it.
- Juan Carlos Martinez
- CLASE BUSINESS
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Questions to start the class
- What kinds of advertising are there?
- Where do you see the most advertising?
- What is your favorite advertisement?
- What commercials do you remember most from television?
- What do you think makes a good commercial?
Exercise A
Vocabulary for the audios
Audio
Difficulty: Intermediate (B1)
Conversation
Jim: Lee, let me introduce you to Jacob. He’s going to help us come up with a marketing campaign.
Lee: It’s nice to meet you, Jacob.
Jacob: It’s nice to meet you, too.
Jim: I think our first order of business is to decide what kind of marketing campaign to do.
Lee: There are three primary places to advertise: newspapers, radio, and television.
Jacob: Yes, that’s true. Let’s think about our audience.
Jim: Our audience is college students. They use the books we sell.
Lee: I’d bet that they don’t read the newspapers much.
Jacob: I agree. I think they probably listen to the radio more.
Jim: They like to listen to music.
Lee: They like television, too.
Jacob: Television advertising is more expensive than radio advertising.
Jim: So which is a college student more likely to do: listen to the radio or watch television?
Lee: Let’s face it. They’ll watch more television.
Jim: Do you agree, Jacob?
Jacob: Yes, I do. Even though television commercials cost more, we should do a television commercial because we’ll reach a wider audience.
Lee: A commercial it is!
Exercise B
- What was the first order of business at the marketing meeting?
- What are the three primary places to advertise?
- According to Jim, who is their company’s target audience?
- What is Lee’s opinion about college students?
- Why do they agree to do a TV commercial?
Exercise C - Writing
Writing
Answer the following questions.
1. What’s your favorite company or organization?
2. What kind of marketing campaigns does it have?
3. Who is the primary audience for its marketing campaigns? How can you tell?
4. How do you think the company could reach a wider audience?
5. What kind of marketing campaign would you come up with?
6. If you owned this company, what would be your first order of business?
7. What challenges would you be likely to face?
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