Basic Needs

['biznis]
-es
Everyday Expressions
n.
Its your business to take care of the kids.
n.
What line of business are you in?
n.
John wants to go into business when he leaves university.

businessman / businesswoman /
businesslike

business hours

business volume

Linguistic Skill
Useful Phrases
--- show biz (business)
---to get (down) to business
--- mind ones own business
---have no business/nothing
to (do)
--- go about ones business
--- go out of business
Idioms & Slang
business is business ---
sb mean business ---
Its none of your business. ---

Communicating Clearly
Street Talks
A: Hi Bob, hows business?
B: Just okay.
A: Okay, enough small talk. Lets get down to business/ talk
business.
B: Good idea.
A: Since were good friends, you don't have to pay me.
B: No, I cant accept it. Business is business.
A: Joanna, will you go out with me tonight?
B: Id like to, but Im afraid I cant. I have another date tonight.
A: With whom?
B: David! Cmon! Its none of your business.
A: Hi Jane, wheres your husband?
B: Hes away on business.
I majored in bookkeeping in business school.
There is a war going on, for Gods sake! We cant go on business as usual.
Be careful. These guys mean business.

Cultural Focus
Transcripts

You went to business school, I cant get you anywhere near the office.

Cash, stock, and they dont want to tell me how to run the business.

Didnt you once say Everything is business?

Well this is your business, I don't want to play games with you.

Linus: This is business, mother. Listen, I gotta drop something off

in Davids room. When he surfaces from this weeks love of
his life, tell him I put his suspenders back in his closet.

Mrs. Larrabee: Youre not leaving now. Youll miss my fire works.

Sabrina: You are formidable, arent you? In business...

Linus: Well, this isnt business.
Proverbs
Business makes a man as well as tries him.

Business is the salt of life.

Business neglected is business lost.

Quotations
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, well
all be plucking chickens for a living.
H. Ross Perot (b. 1930), U.S. business executive, presidential candidate 1992.
Quoted in: Time (New York, 16 Nov. 1992), referring to rival candidate Bill Clintons
initiatives in Arkansas.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but
the ink it uses is human blood.
Eric Ambler (b. 1909), British novelist. Marukakis, in A Coffin for Dimitrios, ch. 5
(1939).