1. Week 5 –
Business English
Professor Hayashi

2. Today’s Awesome Class!
• attendance / homework check
• review
• vocabulary
• useful language
• skit time !
BREAK TIME!
• MONEY!!
• vocab/language review
• case study

3. REVIEW - Question #1 – Vocab review
DEFINITION WORD
A company that is at least half-owned by another Subsidiary
company
The main building of an organization Head Office
The pyramid-like organization of a company Hierarchy
The rigid structure of administration characterized Bureaucracy
by rules, routine and concentration of authority
The governing of an organization in which people Democracy
hold the power and the majority rules

4. REVIEW – Question #2 – Multiple Choice
Which is the most suitable noun combination?
1.a) the class of yesterday
4. a) a letter’s head
b) yesterday’s class
b) a letter of head
c) yesterday class
c) a letterhead
2. a) a note of absence
5. a) a four-day week
b) an absence’s note
b) a week of four days
c) a note’s absence
c) a four week day
3. a) a 3-stars hotel
b) a hotel’s 3 star
c) a 3-star hotel

5. Question #3 – Short Answer
Imagine you are on a plane to Chicago.
Introduce yourself to the person sitting beside
you.

6. VOCABULARY – page 33
Hey friends! Let’s partner up and do exercise A, B & C! YAY FUN!
Answers: down- de- up- re-
Exercise A
grade centralize grade organize
size regulate train
regulate
develop
launch
locate
structure

7. VOCAB
Exercise B/C (page 33)
1.relocating – suburbs
2.downsize – workforce
3.retraining – staff
4.reorganized – seating plan
5.relaunch – product
6.decentralizing – decision-making process
7.redevelop – site
8.restructure - hierarchy

8. LANGUAGE REVIEW – page 34

9. Language Review
Page 34 – exercise A, B
EXERCISE A
in 2003 – PS
this week – PP
recently – both
since 2003 – PP
yesterday – PS
last year – PS
yet – both
ever – PP
six months ago - PS

10. USEFUL LANGUAGE – page 35
In groups, make up a HILARIOUS short skit using as many
of the ‘useful language’ expressions as you can.
Keep a tally and the team with the most expressions WINS
a prize!

11. Money
Week 5
Business English
Professor Hayashi

12. Useful Language
 Let’s review page 39!
3,450,402 0.006% $8.7 bn
€392 m 8,093,209,445 17.29%
0.54% 1,337 2,028,394

13. Our ‘fave’ friendly
activity – VOCAB!
 In PARTNERS, please go to page 40 and do exercises A, B
&C
Exercise C:
Answers: 1.pre-tax profits
Exercise A: Exercise B: 2.forecast
1.d 3.recession
1.b
4.earnings per share
2.b 2.c
5.dividend
3.a 3.e 6.shares
4.e 4.a 7.investment
5.f 5.f 8.profits
6.c 6.d 9.gross margin
10.debt
11.bankruptcy
12.revenues

14. Language Review
Page 43

15. PARTNER WORK
 On page 43 and do exercise A & C
ANSWERS:
EXERCISE A EXERCISE C
1.decline, decrease, fall, drop 1.from, to
2.double 2.by
3.fluctuate 3.of
4.gain, improve, increase, rise 4.at
5.halve 5.of
6.level off 6.of
7.peak
8.plummet
9.recover
10.rocket, jump
11.triple

16. YOUR TURN!
 In groups, make a small presentation on this chart
about something CREATIVE!

17. HOMEWORK! AWESOME!
Visit the facebook group page: “Business English – Spring 2013”
There will be “Business English Homework Questions” posted there.
You should respond to a question for a homework point.
Just click the ‘comments’ button under the post and write your response.
Have fun!