• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Biz-E-Training

  • Home
  • Courses
  • Learner resources
    • Business video activities
    • Study pages for business communication
    • Business quizzes
    • Check your business grammar
  • Student Forum
    • Forum login
  • Teacher resources
    • ELT Blogs
    • Idiom quizzes
    • Video based activity: What leads to success?
    • Talking about your company
    • Teaching pronunciation
    • Create magazines for learners
    • Course glossary using Google Forms
  • Bookshop
  • News

PBE – Lesson 4 Self-study

This icon indicates that an activity is preparation for the next lesson.

Academic writing

Use these pages to learn about the key skill of paraphrasing:

  • University of New South Wales – Paraphrasing, Summarising and Quoting
  • Simon Fraser University – Techniques for Paraphrasing
  • Scribbr.com – How to paraphrase sources
  • UEfAP – UEfAP – Reporting – paraphrase, summary & synthesis

Vocabulary

To help you acquire new business and general vocabulary, do the following:

  1. Use the word list at the back of your coursebook Career Express (B2) 2nd Edition (page 134). This will be helpful in our lessons, but can also be used to learn the vocabulary in the coursebook.
  1. Make (or complete, if you’ve already started) a list of new vocabulary from Unit 10.
  1. Use your preferred method for learning the new vocabulary (e.g. the Quizlet app, a vocabulary notebook or cards).

Business communication

Use your coursebook – Career Express (B2) 2nd Edition – to do the following:

  1. Go to page 90, Section 9 Work skills: Accommodation strategies.
  1. Read the definition of accommodation strategies.
  1. In Activity A, read the different versions of the sentence and match them with the type of person the speaker is trying to communicate with.
  1. Use the Answer key on page 129 to check your answers.

Online exercises

Use this link – Online exercises – to do the following Career Express online exercises:

  • Unit 10: Vocabulary practice 3 – 6
  • Unit 10: Grammar practice 3 & 6
  • Unit 10: Getting it right: 1

Previous self-study

Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3


Primary Sidebar

FOM Students Forum

  • FOM Students Forum

Biz-E-Training Courses

  • Business Communication Courses

Video activities

  • AI – Friend or foe?
  • The 7 Cs of Communication
  • Google’s self-driving car
  • CPA – Certified Public Accountant Profile
  • Jeff Bezos – Founder of Amazon.com
  • Trump the businessman
  • Active listening
  • Conference calls – What can go wrong?
  • The world in figures
  • Porter’s 5 forces

Study pages

  • Academic writing – Online resources
  • Presentation skills
  • Email writing
  • Confusables
  • Multi-word vocabulary
  • Phrasal verbs
  • Business collocations
  • Grammar review (1)
  • Grammar review (2)
  • Grammar review (3)
  • Using reported speech
  • Getting verb patterns right
  • American or British English?
  • Country profiles
  • Why do startups fail?

Business quizzes

  • Business terms
  • Business ideas
  • International trade
  • Types of company
  • Money
  • Let the cash flow!

Idiom quizzes

  • Understanding native speakers
  • Take a stroll down memory lane
  • Does this jog your memory?
  • Does your memory serve you well?

Contact Carl Dowse

    captcha

    Footer

    About

    Carl Dowse is currently a lecturer of English for business at the University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany. Carl has taught English in higher education and with corporate clients in Italy, Germany and the UK since 1995. Read More…

    Contact

    Carl Dowse
    Email: carldowse@biz-e-training.com

    Terms and Conditions - Privacy Policy

    Keep in touch

    • E-mail
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Phone
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

    Copyright © 2023 Carl Dowse