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BUSINESS
An elementary course in business English
Students’ Book
Susan. Norman
with Eleanor Melville
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Longman iContents
Unit One
Business content:
‘Structures:
Functions:
Lexis:
Unit Two
Business content:
Structures:
Function:
Lexis:
Unit Three
Business content:
Structures:
Functions:
Lexis:
Unit Four
Business content:
Structures:
Functions:
Pronunciation:
Lexis:
Unit Five
Business content:
‘Structures:
Function:
Lexis:
A visitor to BOB Page 1
Organisation chart
The verb to be
Possessive pronouns
Genitive (’s)
Question words: What? Where? Who?
Introductions; greetings; giving personal information;
registering at a hotel
Jobs, countries, nationalities, titles
Anewcomer Page 9
Telephone conversations; business letter format
Demonstrative pronouns: this/that/these/those
There is/there are
Prepositions: on, in, above, below, under, between, next to,
to the left/right of, on the right/left
Question words: How many?
Describing location
Office furniture and equipment, stationery, cardinal numbers,
business letter teminology
The BOS building Page 18
A memorandum; telephone conversations; company names
Present progressive tense
Imperatives
Prepositions (continued)
Question word: Which?
Discussing activities; giving directions; giving commands
Ordinal numbers, parts of a building, some office activities
Office routine Page 26
A survey; a block chart
Present simple tense
Adverbs used with present simple
Question words: How? How long? How often? What time?
When?
Discussing routine actions and timetables; telling the time;
writing a personal letter
Final -s
Travel/means of transport, time, some verbs of office routine
Ordering stationery Page 34
An order, a business letter (reply to a request)
Count and mass nouns
Plurals
Adjectives
Need
Have got
Expressing need
Stationery, adjectives to describe stationery, party food,
numerical expressions
Consolidation Unit A Your news and news extracts Page 43