Business Result Pre-Intermediate Unit 5 first lesson
How important are the following things for you? Rank them from 1 to 11 by how much time you want to spend on that subject in your English classes:
- Dealing with complaints
- Emailing
- Giving presentations
- Idioms
- Meeting people
- Meetings and negotiations
- Polite language
- Talking about graphs and numbers
- Teleconferences and videoconferences
- Telephoning
- Writing reports
Compare with a partner then as a class.
Optional: Brainstorm useful phrases for talking about rankings.
Rank the things below by how important they are to you when you choose a job, then compare your answers with someone else and see if you can persuade them to change their mind.
- Annual bonus
- Company car
- Flexible hours
- Free childcare
- Gym membership
- High salary
- Laptop
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Mobile phone
- Nice view
- Paid holidays
- Parking space
- Pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- Subsidized cafeteria
- Your own office
Do you think most people would agree with what you’ve put? If it depends, what does it depend on?
Read the article on page 30 and check.
Job benefit collocations
Without looking back at the list on the previous page, match up the following collocations:
Private health phone
High paternity leave
Paid bonus
Free child scheme
Subsidized space
Annual salary
Gym membership
Pension care
Mobile holiday
Nice care
Your own office
Parking hours
Maternity and view
Flexible cafeteria
Company top
Lap car
Check above or as a class.
Do the same with this vocabulary about recruitment (which you haven’t seen yet):
Application annum
Cover period
Panel application
HR department
Psychometric letter
Trial letter
Job list
Short interview
Rejection testing
Job CV
Net date
Per experience
Closing salary
Previous form
Video description
Check as a class.
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