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Business English (B1) – Lesson 5 Self-study

This is the self-study guide for this lesson.

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

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

 
  • Unit 6: Exercise 1: figures and graphs
  • Unit 6: Exercise 2: rule or preference
  • Unit 6: Exercise 3: functional language: offers, requests and socialising

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

  1. Look at your notes for Lesson 5 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 this page to learn language for talking about change: Basic trend language

Here are the answers to the Lesson 4 fixed expressions activity.

Page 45, Section 18

 
  1. What's wrong?
  2. In other words, ...
  3. How about the day after tomorrow?
  4. I see what you mean.
  5. As far as I know, ...

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

  • Page 53, Section 20, Activities A & B.
  • Check your answers for Activity B using the transcript on page 96 of the coursebook and with answer key provided when the next Self-study page is made available.

Here are the answers to the Lesson 4 listening activities.

Page 43, Section 13, Activity B

 Where are they from?Preferred way of communicatingWhy?
Speaker 1Russiaemailemails are more flexible and it is useful to have the information in writing
Speaker 2Indiaface-to-face meeting (or phone)face-to-face meetings and phone calls are more polite than emails and show that the issue is important
Speaker 3Norwayemailemails are more time efficient, direct and don’t interrupt people

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

  • Page 50, Section 12, Activity A & B
  • Check your answers with the answer key provided when the next Self-study page is made available here.

Here are the answers for the Lesson 4 activities:

Page 45, Section 19

Activity A (Possible answers)Activity B
  1. Can I check that everyone is here and can hear me?
  2. Does that make sense?
  3. Is everything OK?
  4. Would you like to comment on this [name]?
  5. Sorry, could I just say one more thing?
  6. I’m very pleased with the way you managed the project.
  1. Does that make sense? (b) You want to check if people understand
  2. Can I hear your opinion on this? (d) You want some input from others
  3. That's very impressive. (f) You want to praise someone
  4. Can I check that you're all here and that everyone can hear me? (a) You want to start a conference call
  5. What's the matter? (c) You think something is wrong
  6. Sorry, could I ask you something? (e) You want to get someone's attention
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