Speaking. Introductory lesson

INTRODUCTORY LESSON

What is Business English?

Warm up

1. What is Business English?

2. What qualities does a person need to have to go up in the world?

3. What qualities do you need to have or do you have to go up in the world?

Active Vocabulary

I. Read the list of adjectives below and find the pairs of opposite words.

INERT

VALIANT IRRESPONSIBLE

SENSITIVE SPENDTHRIFT

THRIFTY CARELESS

RESOLUTE WITHDRAWN

SOCIABLE SLOWPOKE

CALM COWARD

COMPOSED WAVERED

NEAT IGNORANT

OBEDIENT IRRITABLE

SELF-CRITICAL SHALLOW

QUICK BLUNT

CONSCIENTIOUS NARROW-MINDED

DEEP HOT-TEMPERED

WITTY SLOPPY

BROAD-MINDed DISOBEDIENT

ACTIVE CALLOUS

ERUDITE TOUCHY

RESPONSIBLE

II. Read the list of adjectives above and choose those, which describe an ideal businessman. Make up sentences like in the example.

Example: It will never do for a businessman to be inert, he should be active.

Speaking

Look at the list of famous people and try to imagine what qualities helped them to go up in the world. Why do you think so?

a) A. Shcwartzeneger

b) A. Kurnikova

c) J. Aniston

d) Sherlock Holmes

e) Bill Clinton

f) Boris Yeltsin

g) Britney Spears

h) Princess Dianne