{"id":11466,"date":"2018-05-13T04:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T04:30:20","slug":"bep-324-business-english-collocations-company-performance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/13\/bep-324-business-english-collocations-company-performance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 324 &#8211; English for Discussing Company Performance (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11466-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP324-Company-Performance2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP324-Company-Performance2.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP324-Company-Performance2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"BEP 324 Lesson Module - English for Discussing Company Performance 2\" href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP324POD\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP-324-LESSON-Business-English-Collocations-Company-Performance-2-600x259.jpg\" alt=\"BEP 324 LESSON - Business English Collocations for Describing Company Performance 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP-324-LESSON-Business-English-Collocations-Company-Performance-2-600x259.jpg 600w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP-324-LESSON-Business-English-Collocations-Company-Performance-2-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP-324-LESSON-Business-English-Collocations-Company-Performance-2-200x86.jpg 200w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP-324-LESSON-Business-English-Collocations-Company-Performance-2-400x173.jpg 400w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP-324-LESSON-Business-English-Collocations-Company-Performance-2.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/business-english\/\" title=\"Business English\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business English Pod<\/a> for today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/vocabulary\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Business English vocabulary<\/a> lesson on how to describe company performance. <\/p>\n<p>Every company&#8217;s goal is to make a profit. But how they go about that is different. Different industries, different business models, different approaches &#8211; There&#8217;s no simple recipe for success. And there&#8217;s no simple, single way to measure whether a company is performing well. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, we look at many different factors when we measure company performance. We&#8217;ve also got a lot of different expressions in English for discussing the topic. And many of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/english-collocations\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">English expressions<\/a> are what we call \u201ccollocations.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a collocation? Well, it&#8217;s just a natural combination of words. Ever heard the expressions \u201cturn a profit\u201d or \u201cboost the bottom line?\u201d We don&#8217;t say \u201cgrow a profit\u201d or \u201cup the bottom line.\u201d Those simply aren&#8217;t natural collocations. And if you say something like that, you won&#8217;t sound natural.<\/p>\n<p>So studying collocations is a great way to sound more natural with your vocabulary. You can learn combinations of words, rather than single words on their own. As you listen to the dialog today, try to pick out some of these collocations, and we&#8217;ll discuss them later in the debrief. <\/p>\n<p>In the dialog, we&#8217;ll rejoin a meeting at a private equity firm. Three colleagues, Maria, Claudia, and Taylor, are talking about some of the companies they&#8217;ve invested in. They&#8217;ll use lots of great collocations as they discuss the performance of these companies. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Listening Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\tWhat does Claudia think about SmartMoney?<br \/>\n2.\tWhat does Taylor think they should do before selling off SmartMoney?<br \/>\n3.\tWhat has Claudia been focusing on with Byron Industries?<\/p>\n<p>[tp no_translate=&#8221;y&#8221;]<strong>Premium Members: <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP324SN-Company-Performance2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PDF Transcript<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP324QIZ\/presentation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Quizzes<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP324PC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: 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