Practical English

Workbooks

On the subject "ENGLISH AS A MEANS BUSINESS COMMUNICATION"


Subject task 1 (Case study 1)

Put these suggestions into English using the official expression:

1. I regret to inform ...

2. I hope that our cooperation will be successful.

3. Please let me know if you need help.

4. I would be very grateful if you would allow me to visit your company.

5. Thank you for your kind invitation, but I can not see your company because of the heavy workload at work.


Subject task 2 (Case study 2)

To add text with the words: bald, beard, blue, casually, early, ears, fair, glasses, good-looking, heavily, look, narrow, serious, smile, straight, strong, thin.


1. I´m in my ........ fifties.

2. I´m very tall and quite .............. built, but I have rather ......... shoulders.

3. I´m a little overweight.

4. I have ........... medium-length .............. hair, but I´m going ........... ., so there is not a lot of it left.

5. I have a gray ............ and moustache.

6. My eyes are ..........., and I wear ................

7. I´ve got a rather long face, with a ........... chin, a big nose and a big .............

8. I have ......... lips, and I usually have a ........... expression; but my face changes a lot when I .........

9. I have a high forehead; I like to think that it looks intelligent.

10. Clothes are not very important to me, and I´m usually very ......... dressed.

11. I do not think I´m very ..........., but I´m not all that bad-looking either.

12. I probably .............. a bit younger than I am.


Subject task 3 (Cituatsionnaya task 3).

You need to ask for directions. Read and memorize expressions:


Excuse me, can you tell me the way to ......?

could you tell me the way to ....., please?

will you show me the way to ......, please?

would you show me the way to ..., please?

how can / do I get to ....?

where´s the nearest ...?


Make five short dialogues, using words and useful expressions of the columns A and B.

A B

post - office go straight on / ahead

stadium turn right at the corner

concert hall turn left at the crossroad

art gallery turn the corner and go along

supermarket cross the street and take the bus

exhibition walk up to the traffic lights

town hall take the first turn to the left

local market take the right fork in the road



Subject task 4 (Case study 4)


Restore your vocabulary. To pick up every word in the sense of the word opposite (antonym). Record pairs word and its antonym.


Agree, always, awake, beginning, buy, cheap, dark, dead, dirty, early, easy, empty, fast, female, find, first., Generous, happy, heavy, high, honest, hot, indoors, intelligent, interesting , into, laugh, left, long, love, most, new, nice, north-east, optimistic, outside, pull, question, quiet, remember, safe, stop, strong, take off, tall, thin, top, true, up, upstairs, warm, wet, win, wrong, young.


Subject task 5 (Cituatsionnaya task 5)


Read the form, which you have to fill in the employment agencies. Put the question. In each section, add another 1-2 issue.


PERSONALITY

Are you: interested in people?

energetic?

ambitious?

.................

.................


ABILITIES AND SKILLS


Have you got: a good memory?

a sense of humor?

.............

............ ..


Are you: artistic?

practical?

logical?

..............

...............


Can you :?

drive?

speak any foreign languages?

..............

..............


PREFERENCES


Do you like: working on your own?

taking responsibility?

.................

.................

Do you mind: working long