1. A company description.
Read the description. What kind of company is it?
The Mariscal Studio Company was set up in 1989, and since its beginnings we have had a strong interest in animation and audiovisual media. For more than 30 years we’ve been carrying out advertising and television projects, and since 1995, projects on the Internet. During this time our experience and our team have grown, and out of this, the MUVISCAL department was born and is expanding into new areas.
In the audio-visual field we have our own production and post-production teams, offering an integral service for image creation and production, synthetic and real images, and animation, along with image mixing and integration.
2. A company description.
Now read the complete description and choose the correct heading for
each paragraph.
(There are two extra headings that you will not use.)
3. The company headquarters.
Read "Our Space" again and choose the best picture of the company headquarters.
Our Space
The headquarters of the project is an old tanning factory (tannery) built at the turn of the 20th century, in the Poble Nou district of Barcelona. The factory is known as Palo Alto, because of its distinctive tall chimney. The studio occupies the ground floor of the original building. The MUVISCAL production space is situated on the first floor.
7. Asking about a company.
Can you remember the questions from the previous exercise? Type the missing words in the box.
9. Speaking Tutorial 1.
1. Make notes about your company or organisation, or one that you know. (If you are not working, use the information about the company described in this part.) During the tutorial, your tutor will ask you the following questions:
- What's the name of your company or organisation?
- What kind of company or organisation is it?
- What does it do?
- When was it set up?
- Has the company or organisation changed during this time?
- How many people work there?
- Do you have a headquarters? Where is it?
- Do you like working there?
2. Ask your tutor about his or her company or organisation.
Useful phrases for the speaking tutorial:
Hello, this is ....
Can I speak to ..., please?
Hello ..., this is .... I'm calling to do Speaking Tutorial 1 of the Presenting Your Work module.
Our History
The Mariscal Studio Company was set up in 1989, and since its beginnings we have had a strong interest in animation and audio-visual media. For more than 20 years we've been carrying out advertising and television projects, and since 1995, projects on the Internet. During this time our experience and our team have grown, and out of this, the MUVISCAL department was born and is expanding into new areas.
What We Do
In the audio-visual field we have our own production and post-production teams, offering an integral service for image creation and production, synthetic and real images, and animation, along with image mixing and integration.
We also develop interactive products for the Internet, offering a complete consultancy service and site design, development, and implementation using 2D and 3D Flash formats.
Our Space
The headquarters of the project is an old tanning factory (tannery) built at the turn of the 20th century, in the Poble Nou district of Barcelona. The factory is known as Palo Alto because of its distinctive tall chimney. The studio occupies the ground floor of the original building. The MUVISCAL production space is situated on the first floor.