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Business & Commercial English – Self-study 7

This is the self-study guide for this lesson.

Click (laptop) or tap (mobile) to open each section.

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

 
  1. Look at your notes for Lesson 7 and use your preferred method (e.g. the Quizlet app, the Cornelsen Vokabeltrainer app, or simply a vocabulary notebook or cards) to learn the course vocabulary.
  1. Use your coursebook - Simply Business B1+ - do the following:
  • Page 69, Section 23.
  • Check your answers with the answer key provided when the next Self-study page is made available.

Use this page to practise your reading comprehension skills: Reading practice.

Use this activity to review and practise using formal email language: Formal email application

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

  • Page 63, Section 7, Activities A & B.
  • Check your answers using the transcript on page 100 of the coursebook and with answer key provided when the next Self-study page is made available.

Here are the answers to the Lesson 6 listening activities.

Page 60, Section 18, Activities B

QuestionsFilipe from Sozé ShoesManish from Total Yoga
What is the most important part of your job?attending trade fairshelping people on so many levels
What is the hardest part of your job?inviting clients to visit them at the trade fairbeing physically exhausted
What do you enjoy most?seeing the clients at the boothmeeting and working with people
What’s one of the best things about your job?getting into contact with so many people quicklyteaching people from different parts of the world
What do you enjoy least about your job?standing around with nothing to do when there are not enough clientsbeing very tired at the end of the day

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

  • Page 69, Section 23

Here are the answers to the Lesson 6 activities.

Page 61, Section 22

 
  1. a and c are ways of making arrangements. b is a way of asking for help.
  1. a and b are ways of asking to discuss something new. c is a way of politely disagreeing.
  1. a and b are ways of checking what someone has said. c is a way of asking someone to reformulate what they have said.
  1. b and c are ways of mentioning something at the end of a meeting. a is a way of reformulating what someone has said.

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

 
  • Page 69, Section 25.
  • We will look at this activity in our next lesson.

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

 
  • Unit 8: Exercise 1: human resources vocabulary
  • Unit 8: Exercise 2: career path + verb tenses
  • Unit 8: Exercise 3: conditional sentences
Presenting skills

If you have not already given your presentation in class, use this evaluation form as a checklist for your final preparations.

Presentation-evaluation.pdf (580 downloads)

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