Basic Business - Pre-Intermediate

Unit

Language

Vocabulary

Career skills

1. Activities

Present Simple and Continuous

Word building / roles and activities

Explaining your job. Greeting people.

2. Data

Countable and uncountable nouns

Using the data. Quantity and number

Checking information.

3. Etiquette

Offers and requests

 Synonyms and prefixes

Being polite. Being direct.

4. Image

Comparatives and superlatives

Fashion industry.

 Word building

Describing product

5. Success

Past simple

Opposites

Collocations

Telling a story

Business failure

6.  Future

Modals of possibility

Financing ventures

Collocations

Making predictions

Past or Future?

7. Location

Future plans and intentions

Collocations

Multi-part  verbs

Making an appointment

8. Job-seeking

The Imperative

The application process

Find a job

Explaining what to do

Fixed or flexible procedures

9. Selling

Modals of obligation

Word building

Makin suggestions

Showing reactions

10. Price

Present Perfect

Synonyms verbs that take an object

Describe and explain the graph

11. Insurance

Passives

Problems

Insurance  fraud

Explaining arguments

12. Service

Conditional 1

Feedback on service

Dealing with complaints

Dealing  with problems

Showing emotion

13. Productivity

Adjectives and adverbs

Delivery, stock control

Managing time

14. Creativity

Conditions 2

Multi-part verbs

suffixes

Finding solution

Showing disagreement

15. Motivation

Present perfect and past simple

Personal quality

Management styles

Giving reasons

Formal and informal presentations