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BUSINESS ENGLISH · BEC PRELIMINARY · INTERMEDIATE (B1-B2)

INTRODUCTION
TO BUSINESS
ENGLISH

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1 Warm up

In pairs, discuss the following questions.

1. What do you think are the differences between General English and Business English?
2. What vocabulary do you know that can be used in Business English?
3. What English skills do you think may be important in the following business situations?

a. Ordering products for your company

b. Organising a meeting

c. Talking about financial information

d. Going to a conference

e. Giving a presentation

2 Business English and General English

Your teacher will give you Handout 1. Complete the following tasks.

1. Read the definitions. Are they the same as the ideas you had in the Warm up? Is there anything
different? If so, what?
2. Read the situations and decide if you need to use Business English, General English, or both.
3. Underline the nouns in the situations that you could use in Business English.

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3 Business terms
Your teacher will give you a second handout. Match the vocabulary to the definitions. When you
have finished, write the vocabulary in the correct sentences below. There are two words you will not
need.

Part A

1. We are going to have to order more to make sure we have enough to sell over
summer.

2. My favourite of clothing is Timberland. They are reasonably priced and their clothes
last for a long time.

3. When I first started my company, my father made an of £100,000 to help me start

up. Since then, I’ve been able to pay him back with an additional 10% which he was very pleased
about.

4. We’re meeting with the senior management of their company tomorrow to talk about a possible
. We think that if we work together we will control a competitive portion of the
market.

5. The new says she’s going to increase salaries for everyone in the company, but
fewer people will be travelling for business.

6. Senior management is very happy as we made a 15% increase in compared to the

same period last year.

7. The team has been very effective at increasing our online sales through advertising
and direct customer contact.

8. We didn’t manage to sell as many of these computers as we thought, and now there’s a new one
on the market, so I think we’re going to make a this year.

Part B: For each of the words from the list, write down the different parts of speech asked for in the
question.

1. corporation (n) - What is the adjective?

2. merger (n) - What is the verb?

3. stock (n) - What is the verb?

4. capital (n) - What is the verb?

5. profit (n) - What is the verb? What’s the adjective?

6. loss (n) - What is the verb? What is the adjective?

7. investment (n) - What is the verb?

8. marketing (n) - What is the verb? What is another noun?

9. brand (n) - What is the verb? What is another noun?

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Part C: Now complete the following speech by underlining the correct form of the words 1 - 8.

Good afternoon everyone! Thanks for coming to the meeting. We have a few important bits
of news we’d like to share with you all about our future as a 1. corporation / corporate. Most
importantly, we are planning to 2. merger / merge with Tyson Industries which we believe will
help us to 3. capitalise / capital on the growing 4. markets / marketing in the Latin American
region. Now I want to stress that this will not have any negative impact on the number of
people we employ, quite the opposite. We will need to take on more staff to help us to 5.
brand / branding our products. We are 6. investing / investment a lot of money in this over
the next two years because we expect we will be 7. profiting / profit from it for many years
to come. This will help us greatly because, as many of you know, we made a 8. lost / loss in
the Middle East last year when the sales we expected didn’t happen.

Part D: Decide if the following sentences are right or wrong. If there’s not enough information to
answer, choose doesn’t say.

1. Tyson Industries is buying the company.

a. right b. wrong c. doesn’t say

2. There has been an increase in possible business in Latin America.

a. right b. wrong c. doesn’t say

3. It’s likely that people will lose their jobs.

a. right b. wrong c. doesn’t say

4. Profit is expected to increase by at least 30% over two years.

a. right b. wrong c. doesn’t say

5. The Middle East has been profitable for the company.

a. right b. wrong c. doesn’t say

6. The staff are all excited about the news.

a. right b. wrong c. doesn’t say

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4 Listening

Now listen to the recording of the same speech as in section 3. Decide if the words 1 - 8 you had to
choose in Part C, Task 3 are said rightly or wrongly.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

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5 Speaking task

In pairs, take it in turns to prepare and practise talking about these topics for 1 - 2 minutes.

Student A

What do you need to remember when...?

Meeting people for the first time in a business situation.

• behaviour
• language
• clothes

Student B

What do you need to remember when...?

Starting a new job on the first day.

• what to take
• what to do
• what to say

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6 What did you learn?

Complete the table to decide how many points from today’s lesson you have learned.

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