English for Business – Threshold Level [B1] [english|english]

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Kursinhalt

0. Introduction

0.1 Welcome
0.2 Navigation
0.3 Helpful Tools
0.4 Training Material
0.5 Best Usage

1. Situations and Processes

1.0 Training Material for Unit 01
1.1 Describing Situations and Processes
1.1.1 When do we need it, and how is it formed?
1.1.2 Unfinished Actions
1.1.3 Temporary Situations
1.1.3.1 What’s happening?
1.1.4 Temporary Habits
1.1.4.1 Bad Habits
1.1.5 Definite Future Plans
1.1.5.1 Test your knowledge about Present Continuous
1.1.2.1 What does he do | What is he doing?
Assignments

2. Making Your Point
To make one's point means to make something a subject and express one's own position clearly. - This chapter is about expressing oneself in different situations.

3. Discussions and Arguments

4. Security Matters

4.0 Training Material for Unit 04
4.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
4.0.1.1 Some Safety Items
4.1 Reflexive Pronouns
4.1.1 Reflexive Pronouns
4.2 IT Security
4.2.1 Cyber Security Vocabulary
4.3 Workplace safety
4.3.1 Safety Rules
4.3.2 Health, Safety and Environment Incident Report
4.3.3 Help us completing our security advice.

5. Presentations

5.0 Training Material for Unit 05
5.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
5.1 Structures of Presentations
5.1.1 A good or bad example?
5.1.2 Expectations of the Audience
5.2 Things All Around Presentations
5.2.1 Phases of a Presentation
5.3 Chronological Or Aim Oriented Approach
5.4 Our Recommendation for the Introduction Phase
5.5 Our Recommendation for the Findings Phase
5.6 Our Recommendation for the Conclusions and Recommendations Phases

6. Office Talks
Sometimes you need to discuss a subject or a procedure with your colleague or colleagues. When you discuss it, everyone has an opinion, and often a different one. You take a look at all the ideas, and you briefly go through them with your colleagues. You browse ideas with them.

6.0 Training Material for Unit 06
6.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
6.1 Information, Requests for Information and Instructions
6.1.1 Help us matching the sentences
6.1.2 How the use of modal verbs can change the meaning of a sentence
6.1.2.1 Find the correct expressions
6.2 Asking Typical Questions
6.2.1 Help us raising the questions
6.3 Suggestions and Proposals
6.3.1 Help us find the right words
6.4 Modalverbs “would”, “should”, “could”

7. At the Bank

7.0 Training Material for Unit 07
7.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
7.1 Types of Banks
7.2 Robo-Advisors
7.3 Some Banking Terms
7.4 Some terms you should know in any case
7.5 A Crossword Puzzle for True Bankers Only
7.6 At the Bank
7.7 Help us completing the short story
7.8 A Crossword Puzzle Not Only for Bankers
7.9 Some Other Banks

8. Work Idioms

8.0 Training Material for Unit 08
8.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
8.1 We Are All Soulful Individuals
8.2 Using Adverbs to Emotionalize a Statement
8.2.1 Let’s play a bit with adverbs
8.2.2 Feel the Difference
8.3 Common Idioms
8.3.1 Help us finding the right answers
8.4 Short Answers With Emotional Signals

9. Describing Situations

9.0 Training Material for Unit 09
9.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
9.1 Past Continuous – The Story Telling Tense
9.2 Differences from the narrator’s point of view
9.2.1 It’s Quiztime!
9.2.2 Help us find the right words in this short story
9.2.3 Fill in the gaps with simple past or past continuous
9.2.4 Tell us what happened to you last week during your lunch break
9.1.1 Listen to the story. What did you hear?

10. Apologies and Explanations
We all know our business etiquette in our own culture and in our mother tongue. We use certain structures, idioms and expressions intuitively. However, it is precisely this business etiquette that is not global. In the English language the word “sorry” or the phrase “I'm afraid” is used much more often than in many other languages. They are a certain business etiquette in the English language.

10.0 Training Material for Unit 10
10.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
10.1 Trigger Words and Expressions – A Cultural Advice
10.1.1 Sorry ≠ Excuse me ≠ Pardon
10.2 Apologies – Excuses
10.3 Sorry (and similar)
10.4 to be afraid
10.5 Excuse me
10.6 A Meeting That Went Wrong
10.7 Common Apologizes
10.8 A little test of what we have learned in this chapter
10.9 Lot’s of apologies from the world of movies and songs

11. Work Tasks & Targets
This tense is called the Present Perfect. And in English, we particularly target the 'present' aspect of this tense. This is very different from other languages, where they usually focus much more on the 'past' aspect of the tense.

11.0 Training Material for Unit 11
11.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
11.1 The Peculiarity of the Present Perfect
11.1.1 How the Present Perfect Is Formed
11.1.2 Where to put verbs like ‘not’, ‘already’, ‘use’ and similar
11.1.3 Let’s do some exercises.
11.1.4 What’s the problem with the Present Perfect?
11.1.5 So, when do we use the Present Perfect in English?
11.1.5.1 Is it all confusing?
11.1.6 Trigger Words for the Present Perfect Tense.
11.2 Grammar Chart Present Perfect
11.2.1 Word Order
11.3 Work Tasks & Targets
11.4 A Short Story
11.5 Help us completing the sentences

12. Dealing With Angry People

12.0 Training Material for Unit 12
12.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
12.1 The Anger Cycle
12.2 Our Recommendation How To Deal With Angry Or Difficult Customers
12.3 Future Simple, Grammar Chart
12.3.1 Some Business Answers
12.3.2 Transform the sentences to future tense with ”will“ or ”won’t”
12.4. The Future Form «… going to …»
12.4.1 Sentences with «going to»
12.5 Grammar: Future Simple «shall»
12.5.1 Sentences with «shall»

13. Talking about Schedules, Options and Alternatives
There are those situations where we need to coordinate dates or talk about options and alternatives. In many of these cases, we cannot avoid making suggestions, predictions and outlining possible consequences and alternative possibilities. This is the area where the conditional comes into play in English, the infamous ”if-sentences”. But don't worry, we're not going to cover this like we do in school, instead we're going to use what I think is a light and easy approach that will introduce you to the conditional very simply. It's simply about how you can assess a situation differently and communicate that to your conversation partner.

13.0 Training Material for Unit 13
13.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
13.1 Meeting People
13.1.1 A Dialog
13.2 The Conditionals (if-clauses)
13.2.1 A Deeper Understanding of the Construction of the Conditionals
13.3 The Zero Conditional
13.3.1 Form Sentences with the Zero Conditional
13.4 The First Conditional
13.4.1 Form Sentences with the First Conditional
13.5 The Second Conditional
13.5.1 Sentences with the Second Conditional
13.5.2 Ask Questions (2nd Conditional)
13.6 Grammar Chart “The Conditionals”
13.7 ’when’, ’whether’ and ’in case’

14. Giving Orders, Requests and Advice
’must’, ’have to’, ’need to’; Imparatives

14.0 Training Material for Unit 14
14.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
14.1 Obligations and Duties
14.2.1 The Use of the Modal Verb ’must’
14.2.2 The Use of ’have to’ and ‘have got to’
14.2.3 The Use of ’need to’
14.2.4 Let’s do some ‘must’ / ‘have to’ exercises
14.2.5 ‘must’, ’need to’ or ’have to’?
14.3 A little listening exercise
14.4 Imperative
14.4.1 Form the imperative

15. Directions and Places
Prepositions of time and place are actually challenging for learners in all languages. In this chapter, we will try to show you a simple way to get a handle on prepositions of place.

15.0 Training Material for Unit 15
15.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter
15.1.1 Prepositions of Place of Objects
15.1.1.1 Where’s the cat? – Preposition of Place
15.1.2 Directions in Office Buildings
15.1.3 Directions on City Maps
15.1.3.1 Describe the way to …
15.1.3.2 Navigation
15.2.1 ’at ’ – ’in ’ – ’on ’ – as Prepositions of Place
15.2.2 Borderline Cases with ‘at‘, ‘in‘ and ‘on‘
15.2.3 Let’s see if the prepositions are easier for you now.
15.4 “Sailing” by Rod Stewart – Find the prepositions of place in the lyrics
15.5 Where are we going?

16. Life Journeys and Experiences
The Past Tense – Past Perfect

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Kursinhalt

0. Introduction

0.1 Welcome

0.2 Navigation

0.3 Helpful Tools

0.4 Training Material

0.5 Best Usage

1. Situations and Processes

1.0 Training Material for Unit 01

1.1 Describing Situations and Processes

1.1.1 When do we need it, and how is it formed?

1.1.2 Unfinished Actions

1.1.3 Temporary Situations

1.1.3.1 What’s happening?

1.1.4 Temporary Habits

1.1.4.1 Bad Habits

1.1.5 Definite Future Plans

1.1.5.1 Test your knowledge about Present Continuous

1.1.2.1 What does he do | What is he doing?

Assignments

2. Making Your Point To make one's point means to make something a subject and express one's own position clearly. - This chapter is about expressing oneself in different situations.

2.0 Training Material for Unit 02

2.0.1 Important Vocabulary

2.1 Some Basic Thoughts About Meetings

2.1.1 Do You Remember It?

2.2 Interrupting With Verbal Contributions

2.2.1 Examples how you can interrupt in certain situations

2.2.2 How to say that you didn’t understand

3. Discussions and Arguments

3.0 Training Material for Unit 03

3.1 Agreeing and Disagreeing

3.2 Positive and negative short statements

3.3 Having an argument

3.3.1 Important differences

3.3.2 If you really have to ….

3.4 Can you complete the sentences?

4. Security Matters

4.0 Training Material for Unit 04

4.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter

4.0.1.1 Some Safety Items

4.1 Reflexive Pronouns

4.1.1 Reflexive Pronouns

4.2 IT Security

4.2.1 Cyber Security Vocabulary

4.3 Workplace safety

4.3.1 Safety Rules

4.3.2 Health, Safety and Environment Incident Report

4.3.3 Help us completing our security advice.

5. Presentations

5.0 Training Material for Unit 05

5.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter

5.1 Structures of Presentations

5.1.1 A good or bad example?

5.1.2 Expectations of the Audience

5.2 Things All Around Presentations

5.2.1 Phases of a Presentation

5.3 Chronological Or Aim Oriented Approach

5.4 Our Recommendation for the Introduction Phase

5.5 Our Recommendation for the Findings Phase

5.6 Our Recommendation for the Conclusions and Recommendations Phases

6. Office Talks Sometimes you need to discuss a subject or a procedure with your colleague or colleagues. When you discuss it, everyone has an opinion, and often a different one. You take a look at all the ideas, and you briefly go through them with your colleagues. You browse ideas with them.

6.0 Training Material for Unit 06

6.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter

6.1 Information, Requests for Information and Instructions

6.1.1 Help us matching the sentences

6.1.2 How the use of modal verbs can change the meaning of a sentence

6.1.2.1 Find the correct expressions

6.2 Asking Typical Questions

6.2.1 Help us raising the questions

6.3 Suggestions and Proposals

6.3.1 Help us find the right words

6.4 Modalverbs “would”, “should”, “could”

7. At the Bank

7.0 Training Material for Unit 07

7.0.1 Important Vocabulary in this Chapter

7.1 Types of Banks

7.2 Robo-Advisors

7.3 Some Banking Terms

2. Making Your Point
To make one's point means to make something a subject and express one's own position clearly. - This chapter is about expressing oneself in different situations.

6. Office Talks
Sometimes you need to discuss a subject or a procedure with your colleague or colleagues. When you discuss it, everyone has an opinion, and often a different one. You take a look at all the ideas, and you briefly go through them with your colleagues. You browse ideas with them.

11. Work Tasks & Targets
This tense is called the Present Perfect. And in English, we particularly target the 'present' aspect of this tense. This is very different from other languages, where they usually focus much more on the 'past' aspect of the tense.