Global Business English (C1) – Lesson 7

Go to page 78 of your coursebook Basis for Business C1 and in Exercise 2 do the following:
 

1. Listen to a portrait of Patagonia, a brand that has changed the game in outdoor apparel and answer the question about what made it so disruptive.

2. Consider other brands that have broken with convention and disrupted markets. Use the ideas listed for inspiration. When was the brand introduced? What social changes did it contribute to?

To help with your acquisition of new business and general vocabulary and to prepare for the end of course exam, do the following:
 

1. Use the Chronological Wordlist to make a list of new vocabulary in Unit 6 of the coursebook.

2. The vocabulary exercises in the Online activities below will also be of help.

Go to pages 71 - 72 of your coursebook Basis for Business C1 to do the following:
 

1. Grammar
   • Read the explanation on page 72: Modifiers
   • Exercise 4: Modifiers
   • Use the Answer key on page 115 to check your answers

2. Vocabulary
   • Exercise 3: Collocations
   • Use the Answer key on page 115 to check your answers

Use this link - Online exercises - to do the following Basis for Business C1 online exercises:
 

1. Unit 5: Vocabulary 1 – 5
   • General business vocabulary & collocations
   • Financial terms
   • Phrasal verbs

2. Unit 5: Work skills 1 – 5
   • Story telling
   • Explaining & clarifying