English for Business Life Elementary

Practice
Meeting someone at the airport
1 Listen to the dialogue and mark the statements true
T l or false [p] or unclear [lA].
a Jane Riga and Ed Meeks have met before. □ d
b Ed Meeks had a good flight.
c
The flight was delayed because of the
weather conditions.
d They are going to have dinner in the hotel.
e Jane Riga's car is in the car park.
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Past Continuous tense
2 Complete the dialogue. Use verbs in the Past
Continuous tense (I was doing, etc.).
A: W hat a ........................(do) when I called this
morning? I couldn't get through.
B: I b ........................(have) a meeting with some
people from our New York sales office. They
c ........................(tell) me about business in the
States.
A: Interesting. I heard you were in New York last
week. What d ........................(do) there?
B: I e ........................(visit) a new customer. It was
an interesting trip.
A: W hat was the w'eather like?
B: It was terrible. It f ........................(rain) when I
arrived, and it g ........................(snow) when I
left! The tem perature was only 3°C.
Past Continuous vs. Simple Past
Make sentences using the Past Continuous (I was
doing) or the Simple Past (Idid). All the sentences
should refer to the visit to the Australian agent in
the example.
e.g. I/visit/our Australian agent last week.
X viS.itzd.oiAr Ai
He/live/in a first class hotel.
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Weather vocabulary
4 Think about the weather - now, when you were
abroad, in your key markets, etc. Then write true
statements using the words in the box.
rain / su n n y / cold foggy
snow freezing sun w arm
fog cloudy w in d y h o t
e.g......X . .fk'.H-K. ).1 ^j9). . .t?.. ..........
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b
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d
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f
g
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