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Online exercises
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
Vocabulary
To continue your acquisition of new business and general vocabulary, do the following:
- 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.
- 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.
Listening
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
Questions | Filipe from Sozé Shoes | Manish from Total Yoga |
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What is the most important part of your job? | attending trade fairs | helping people on so many levels |
What is the hardest part of your job? | inviting clients to visit them at the trade fair | being physically exhausted |
What do you enjoy most? | seeing the clients at the booth | meeting and working with people |
What’s one of the best things about your job? | getting into contact with so many people quickly | teaching 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 clients | being very tired at the end of the day |
Business communication
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
- a and c are ways of making arrangements. b is a way of asking for help.
- a and b are ways of asking to discuss something new. c is a way of politely disagreeing.
- a and b are ways of checking what someone has said. c is a way of asking someone to reformulate what they have said.
- b and c are ways of mentioning something at the end of a meeting. a is a way of reformulating what someone has said.
Grammar
Use your coursebook - Simply Business B1+ to do the following:
- Page 69, Section 25.
- We will look at this activity in our next lesson.
Email writing
Use this activity to review and practise using formal email language: Formal email application
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