Business & Commercial English – Self-study 2

If you have not already done so, follow these instructions for your student consulting assignment:

1. Form a group of three to prepare and deliver your presentation.

2. As a group, decide on a business issue or topic in accordance with the following criteria:

• The topic should be of interest to each of the presentation group members and should be of benefit to the class as a whole when you make the presentation.
• The topic should be business or work related and have some practical value so that theory and practice are combined to some extent.
• If the topic relates to an area covered in your other FOM studies, the content should not only repeat what was done in class before, but rather bring something additional or new to the topic.

3. As a group, prepare a short text (maximum 100 words) describing your student consulting presentation topic and the reason(s) why you have chosen the topic. If it's possible at this early stage, add a title for your project.

4. One group member should do the following:

• Download and complete the student consulting topic proposal form (see below). Add the names of the group members.
• Return the form to your tutor in class or leave it for him or her to pick up at your study centre.
• Please DO NOT send it by email.

Your tutor will give you feedback on your choice of topic and once he or she has given you their approval you can continue your preparations. Dates for the class presentations will be agreed with your tutor.

Use this activity to learn lanaguage that can be used to guide and orientate your audeince when presenting: Signposting your presentation.

To continue your acquisition of new business and general vocabulary, do the following:

1. If you have not already done so, you can download a complete word list for the Simply Business B1+ course here below.

2. If you have not already done so, follow the instructions in the Lesson 1 Self-study page for using the Cornelsen Vokabeltrainer app and/or the Quizlet app on your phone.

3. To learn the course vocabulary, use your preferred method (e.g. the Quizlet app, the Cornelsen Vokabeltrainer app, or simply a vocabulary notebook or cards).

4. Use this page to learn about and practise phrasal verbs used when speaking on the telephone: Telephone language: phrasal verbs.

Use your coursebook - Simply Business B1+ - and the PagePlayer app (or CDs) to do the following:

• Page 17, Section 9, Activities A, B and C.

You can check your answers using the transcript on pages 86-87 of the coursebook and with the answer key provided when the next Self-study page is made available.

Here are the answers for the Lesson 1 listening activities.

Page 11, Section 18.

Use your coursebook - Simply Business B1+ - and the PagePlayer app (or CDs) to do the following:

• Page 21, Section 19, Activity A, B & C

You can check your answers using the transcript on page 89 of the coursebook and with the answer key provided in the next Self-study page.

1. Use your coursebook - Simply Business B1+ - to do the following:

• • Page 21, Section 18 - choose the active or passive forms of the verbs in brackets.
  • Page 21, Section 20 - use the words given in combination with the question word 'How' to form correct questions
  • You can check your answers using the answer key provided in the next Self-study page.

2. Use this activity to revise how comparitiave adjectives are formed and used: Grammar: Comparing

Use this link - Online exercises - to do the following Simply Business B1+ online exercises:

• Unit 3: Exercises 1: giving opinions and reasons / giving and receiving bad news / refusing
• Unit 3: Exercises 2: emailing
• Unit 3: Exercises 3: time expressions