English for Business Life Elementary
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Dialogue
3 Put this dialogue in the correct order. Then practise
it with a partner, if possible.
Yes, that's fine.
Are you free on
Thursday?
How about Friday?
OK.
Yes, that suits me
very well.
/ No, I'm sorry, I can't.
y Can you make Wednesday?
Can you make
three o'clock?
Good. See you then.
I'm afraid not.
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Uo} X vK S o rry jj T .c & ti ! £ ...........
Dates and times
4 Write the following in figures.
e.g. twenty-third
....2..?)T.4..
a the sixteenth of October nineteen
ninety-nine ...............
b May the third tw'o thousand and nine ...............
c six twenty-five ...............
d seven thirty-five ...............
e eleven o'clock ...............
f sixteen hundred ...............
g two thousand and ten ...............
h nineteen sixty-eight ...............
i ninetieth ...............
Now write the following in words.
j 11-30...........................................................................
k 6 .1 5 ..............................................................................
1 17 J u n e .......................................................................
m 21st M arch.................................................................
n 12/9/06 ......................................................................
o 25/2/16 ......................................................................
p 1899 ............................................................................
q 1985 ............................................................................
can/can't; use o f make in arrangements
5 Change the sentences as shown,
e.g. I can't make the 23rd.
(lunch)
.Q - .Q - .'W : ./.'W.'HC-k. o-n fke- 2.3rd.
a We can make eleven o'clock.
(the meeting) ............................................................
b Can he make Wednesday?
(the appointm ent)....................................................
c She can't make June.
(the sales conference) ..............................................
d I can't make the morning.
(the appointm ent)....................................................
e They can make tomorrow.
(the breakfast meeting) ...........................................
f We can't make 4.30 tomorrow afternoon.
(the sales m eeting)...................................................
g Can they make 20..?
(the conference) .......................................................
h He can make the 16th.
(the three o'clock m eeting)....................................
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