Choose one of the countries below and give your partner hints (either the companies in the list or other information) until your partner guesses which country you are speaking about. Start with trickier things to guess from first and/ or choose a difficult country to guess.
| Amazon.com
Avon Boeing Caterpillar Citigroup Coca Cola Costco Dell DuPont Estee Lauder ExxonMobil FedEx Gap GE Gillette GM Goodyear Hallmark Harley-Davidson Hershey’s Hertz HJ Heinz IBM Intel Kellogg’s Kodak MAN Mattel Microsoft Motorola Nike Northwest Pfizer Procter and Gamble Samsonite Starbucks Subway Tiffany Wal-Mart
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Ajinomoto
Asahi Shimbun Bridgestone Canon Citizen Dentsu Fast Retailing (Uniqlo etc) Fujitsu Hitachi JAL Kao Kenwood Kikkoman Kirin Komatsu Muji NEC Nintendo Nissan Nissin Nomura NTT Pentax Pentel Ricoh Roland Sekisui Sharp Shimano Shiseido Softbank Sony Subaru Suzuki Tomy Toray Toshiba Wacoal YKK Yamaha |
AXA
Alcatel BNP Parisbas Bic Canal + Carrefour Cartier Chanel Christian Dior Danone Lafarge LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennesey) L’Oreal Michelin Paul Printemps Renault Total Vivendi
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Adidas
Allianz BASF Bayer BMW Continental DHL Grundig Hugo Boss Leica Lufthansa Mercedes Benz Nivea Porsche SAP Siemans Stabilo T-Mobile Triumph VW/ Audi Wella Zeiss
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| BAE Systems
BP Burberry Dunlop Dyson Foster and Partners GlaxoSmithKline Harrods JCB Land Rover Parker Pearson Raleigh Reuters Tesco Virgin Atlantic Vodafone Wedgewood |
Benetton
Beretta Bulgari Caritas Diadora Fiat/ Ferrari Gucci Iveco Olivetti Pirelli Pirelli Vespa
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Adecco
Bally Credit Suisse Logitech Nestle Novartis Roche Schindler Swarovski Swatch Vitorinox
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Astra Zeneca
Electrolux Ericsson H&M Husqvarna IKEA Saab Securitas Skanska Tetra Pak Volvo
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| Daewoo
Hite Hyundai Kia Kumho- Asiana LG Lotte NHN Orion Samsung |
DAF
Heineken ING KLM Phillips Royal Dutch Shell TNT Unilever |
Amoy
Cathy Pacific Golden Harvest Hang Seng HSBC Hutchinson -Whampoa South China-Morning Post
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Four Seasons
IMAX Labatts Sun Life RiM (Research in Motion) Thomson-Reuters |
| Andersen
Carlsberg Bang and Olufsen LEGO Maersk |
Banco Santander
Camper Seat Telefonica Zara |
Hindustan Times
Infosys Kingfisher Tata Wipro |
BHP Billiton
Foster’s Group Macquarie Quantas |
| Aeroflot
Gazprom Rosneft Tupolev |
Arcelik
Cumhuriyet Efes |
AIB
Guinness Ryan Air |
Cosco
Haier Lenovo Tsingtao |
| Agfa
Godiva Mr Minit |
Jim Thompson
Singha |
Acer
Eva Airways |
Petrobras
Varig |
| Petronas
Proton |
Finnair
Nokia |
De Beers
SAB Miller |
Manila Times
San Miguel |
Vocabulary and discussion questions
What countries do the firms etc above come from? (Each box is one country)
What are the nationality adjectives for those countries (so that you can say “It is a/ an ____________ company”)?
Were you surprised by the number of companies or lack of companies from some of the countries?
Are there any companies above which are too unimportant to be included on the list?
Are there any other companies which should be included, e.g. from your country or a sector you are interested in?
Which kinds of companies and specific companies would and wouldn’t you like to work for?
Which companies might be the top 50 most popular amongst job seekers in the world’s top 12 economies? Make a list. (Not all the companies mentioned are in the list are above).
Compare your answers to the last question with the real list. Were there any surprises?
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