1. Week 4 – Business English
Professor Hayashi

2. Today’s Class
• attendance & homework check
• review
CHANGE
• vocabulary
• language review
BREAK
ORGANISATION
• vocabulary
• language review
• useful language
• CASE STUDY

3. Review
Subway
 Underground
One Way
 Single
Rest Room
 Public Toilet
Downtown
 City Centre
Carry-on Baggage
 Hand Luggage
Question #1

4. Review
Question #2 - Fill-in-the-blank
We use _____ or _____ to talk about something we
have decided to do at the time of speaking.
We use _____ to talk about a fixed arrangement.
We use ______ to talk about what we intend to do or
have already decided to do.
We use ______ to talk about a timetable or program.
Will „ll
PC
going to
PS

5. Review
Question #3
2 volunteers in your group role play this situation:
Student A and student B have organized a study session for
the Business English midterm.
Student A needs to call student B and cancel with a valid
reason. Suggest an alternative day.

7. Page 23
Hey friends! Let‟s partner up and do exercise A, B & C! YAY FUN!
Answers:
Exercise A
down- de- up- re-
grade centralize date assess
size regulate grade develop
launch
locate
organise
structure
train
Vocabulary

8. Exercise B/C (page 23)
1.reorganised – office layout
2.restructure – company
3.relocating – operations
4.downsized – workforce
5.retrain – sales staff
6.relaunch – product
7.upgrade – computer system
8.decentralise – decision-making process
9.redevelop – car-park site
10.update – whole image
11.deregulate – industry
12.reassess - situation
Vocabulary

9. PAST SIMPLE (PS)
• actions at a particular point
in the past
• eg. I entered University.
PRESENT PERFECT
(PP)
• actions linking the present
to a point in the past
• I have studied at HUFS
since 2006.
Language Review

10. Page 26 – exercise A, B
EXERCISE A
in 2010 – PS
this week – PP
recently – both
since 2009 – PP
yesterday – PS
last year – PS
yet – both
ever – PP
six months ago - PS
Language Review
EXERCISE B
1.has been/gone
2.has experienced
3.introduced
4.permitted
5.abolished
6.has recently become/recently became
7.has shown
8.declared
9.has also made
10.became
11.have appeared
12.was have
13.changed

12. Vocabulary
In PAIRS, work on page
37, exercise A
ANSWERS:
1) Subsidiary – e
2) Factory/Plant – h
3) Call Centre – a
4) Service Centre – d
5) Headquarters – f
6) Distribution Centre – b
7) Warehouse – g
8) Outlet - c

13. Language Review
 Noun Combinations

14. Language Review
Noun Combinations
 In groups of 4, complete this chart:
 You can use examples from the book or your head
‘s
possessive
1 noun used
as an
adjective
phrases
with ‘of’
compound
words

15. I noun combinations
 Complete exercises B, C, D in your groups: page 39
ANSWERS:
exercise B:
1. today’s meeting
2. a letter of credit
3. a business card
4. a database
exercise C:
1. a five-star hotel
2. a 3 million dollar
budget
3. a 20-minute
presentation
4. a 200,000 dollar
contract
5. a 150-year-old
industrial empire
exercise D:
1. business plan/objectives
2. management
style/consultant
3. sales team/revenue
4. customer care/loyalty
5. company
headquarters/logo
6. product line/range
7. consumer
goods/awareness
8. research project/findings
9. information
technology/desk
10. computer program/virus

16. page 27 AND 41
In groups of 4, make up a HILARIOUS short skit using as
many of the „useful language‟ expressions as you can.
Keep a tally and the team with the most expressions WINS
a prize!
Useful Language

17. Visit the facebook group page: “Business English 1 – Spring 2014”
There will be “Business English Homework Questions” posted there.
You should respond to a question for a homework point.
Just click the „comments‟ button under the post and write your response.
Have fun!