BUSINESS ENGLISH B2:

Useful resources for your daily work

Neben etwa 500 Übungs- und 40 Testseiten bietet der Onlinekurs Business English B2 mit seinem
Resource centre eine umfangreiche Materialsammlung: Hör- und Lesetexte, Grammatik, nützliche Formulierungen
für den Berufsalltag, Vorlagen für die Geschäftskorrespondenz, interkulturelle Tipps und Lernstrategien.

Describing the structure of a company Nützliche

(company) director • board of directors • managing director (MD)
Formulierungen
chief executive officer (CEO) • president* • (senior) vice president*
area/regional manager • senior/middle/junior manager • team/project leader

to have (overall) responsibility for a division/a department/sales in a region/…

to be responsible for running a company/marketing products/…
to be in charge of

to head (up) a division/a department/…

to look after a department/an area/a team/staff/…

to report to the MD/a project or team leader/…

to be under

*chiefly AE

Interkulturelle Tipps
Saying ‘no’ politely
When doing business, most people find it much
easier to agree with business partners than to
disagree. Finding the right language for saying
‘no’ is also more difficult and this can lead to
misunderstandings. In Great Britain, in
particular, people tend to use polite phrases to
soften their disagreement and they even say
‘yes’ or ‘I agree’ before they go on to explain
what they really mean. Lernstrategien
It is important to recognize such indirect
Natürliche, gesprochene Sprache unterscheidet
language. Listen out for the word ‘but’ which is
often a signal to show that the speaker is sich stark von einer formellen Rede, einer sorgfältig
about to say what he/she really thinks! Typical ausgearbeiteten Präsentation o. Ä. Beim Gespräch
phrases for a polite ‘no’ would be ‘Yes, I’d go verwenden wir (sowohl im Deutschen als auch im
along with that up to a point but …’, ‘I agree
Englischen) oft kleine Wendungen – so genannte fillers –
with you to some extent but …’, ‘Good idea,
but we may have to …’. It is also important to um Zeit zum Nachdenken zu gewinnen. Neben Äuße-
try to use this more indirect language yourself rungen wie erm und um sind Wendungen wie well, you
as German-speakers often sound very direct know, like, so to speak, I mean und how can I put this?
and abrupt to English native speakers.
typisch für den englischen Sprachgebrauch.
Lassen Sie sich also von diesen fillers nicht verwirren,
sondern konzentrieren Sie sich auf die Kernaussagen.

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Useful resources for your daily work

Grammatik

The future with going to and will
We’re going to open an office in Prague.
Are you going to talk to Mr Simon?
We’ll have to recruit more people soon.
When will you be in the office tomorrow?
If all goes well, they’ll set up a shop in Rome.
If things don’t go well, they won’t (set up a shop in Rome).
Die Zukunft mit going to und will
Going to wird verwendet, um über Pläne oder Absichten zu
sprechen. Das going to future wird mit am/is/are + going to +
Infinitiv gebildet.
Will wird verwendet, um über nicht beeinflussbare künftige
Tatsachen zu Sprechen oder um Vorhersagen zu machen.
Will + Infinitiv (ohne to) ist für alle Personen gleich.
Die Verneinung von will heißt won’t.

An:
Cc:
d_hall@btonline
TIME magazine called her
Betreff: Competitors’ products ‘one of the 100 most influential
people in the digital world’.
Hello Debbie For more than 25-years, Carol
Neuendorfer has funded some of
Thanks very much indeed for your email about the rival
America’s most successful young
products from Harlequin and Thruflow. We had heard some
companies. We look at the all-
rumours but I didn’t realize that their new pumps would be
American girl who became the
on the market so soon. I’ll look into it at my end and could
co-founder of California’s best-
you let me know if you hear any more news? Thanks again.
known venture capital firm.
On another topic – just a reminder that I’m putting together
the monthly sales report so could you let me have your
sales figures asap? :-)

Very best
Heinz Vorlagen

Lesetexte

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