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Business English (B1) – Lesson 2 Self-study

This is the self-study guide for this lesson.

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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

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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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).
  1. Use this page to learn about and practise phrasal verbs used when speaking on the telephone: Telephone language: phrasal verbs.

Grammar

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

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.

Activity AActivity B
  1. Filipe’s company uses the best quality materials and has the highest standards of workmanship. He offers lower prices than his Italian competitors and his company has a reputation for social responsibility because they pay their staff high wages.
  2. Filipe will send Aoife some samples and then Aoife will visit Filipe’s factory in Felgueiras.
  1. May I ask your opinion on something?
  2. Actually, you know the image of shoes from Portugal is just what attracted me to your booth.
  3. My job now is to find suppliers for a second chain of more upmarket stores.

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.

Word list

Download the complete word list for the Simply Business B1+ coursebook here: Word-list.pdf (2819 downloads)

Previous self-study

Lesson 1