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Business English (B1) – Lesson 6 Self-study

This is the self-study guide for this lesson.

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

Online exercises

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

 
  • Unit 7: Exercise 1: forming questions
  • Unit 7: Exercise 2: making requests
  • Unit 7: Exercise 3: vocabulary

Vocabulary

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

 
  1. Look at your notes for Lesson 6 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 revise some key vocabulary: Vocabulary review

Listening

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

  • Page 60, Section 18, Activities A & B.
  • Check your answers for Activity B using the transcript on page 99 of the coursebook and with answer key provided when the next Self-study page is made available.

Here are the answers to the Lesson 5 listening activities.

Page 53, Section 20

Activity AActivity B
  • Conversation 1: b, j
  • Conversation 2: h, i, j
  • Conversation 3: k, e, a
  1. b
  2. b
  3. a
  4. b
  5. a

Business communication

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

  • Page 61, Section 22
  • Check your answers with the answer key provided when the next Self-study page is made available.

Here are the answers for the Lesson 5 activities:

Page 50, Section 12, Activity A

 
  1. H
  2. C
  3. F
  4. G
  5. B
  6. D
  7. A
  8. E

Reading practice

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

Writing skills

Use this page to review language used for linking cause and effect when writing: Cause and effect


Previous self-study

Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5


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