Business English 1 Tasks

Task 1. Page 1.

A Stereotype

The average my father neighbourhood family lives in a detached house in the north of Sulawesi. They
own their house, which is situated at some kind of village of each town. The house has more than
three bedrooms. On average they have four or five children and they also have many pets such as
chicken, goat, and even dog. The family drives motorcycle and there is also drives a car.

He works in a horticulture every day and the earns more than enough for living in a village. He start
after the children goes to school and finish at the afternoon or when the rain comes. He goes to
gardening by walking which takes him 30 minutes.He enjoy his job very much because he doing it
with passion 

She doesn’t work. She is just a normal housewife. She maintain the house, take care of children and
give food to the pets.And she get along really well with the neighbours.

The children go to a general school which is a few kilometers(km) from home. The children usually
walking to the school in before sunrise or if they have some money they will take ‘angkot’
(Indonesian taxi) to school. They are at school from 7:30 am to 2:00 pm.

The most popular evening entertainment is watching television or listening to radio, which the
average person does for 3 hours a day. After that, the most popular activity is playing with friends,
and going to the town . The most popular hobby is doing some sports like playing football,
badminton and volleyball.
Task 2. Page 4.

A Life In The Day of

Linda McCartney

Summary :

She is just moved from London to South Coast with her family, which is it’s her husband
and four children. The family loves to traveling. Her husband named Paul is an excellent father, very
involved and protective towards them. Both of them are in the kind of business where they can be
totally detached from their kids and hardly see their kids grow up. They bring the kids travel with
them. Even when touring abroad they usually rent a house and make it as their base so they can
return to the kids each night. They are a vegetarian family. Paul often comes with her when she drive
the girls to school. She drive a Mini because with a small car she has no fear about scraping it. She
buy most of the kids clothes at Mothercare. She regarded as just another mother who takes her
children to school and has a house to keep. She try to keep her life close to what it was before they
married. She doing jobs around the house and always do the cooking by herself because she enjoy it.
She also found out horse riding is a marvelous form of exercise, both physically and spiritually. One
interest they share closely is football. They don’t socialize that much. There ‘s so much she had like to
do, especially in the photographic field. But she just can’t bring herself to leave the kids so she stay at
home and take pictures of them instead. And they spend most of evening watching television.
Task 3. Page 6

Fact File (Write Your Own Fact File)

School.

I don’t really into it, but keep my best doing it. There are some classes that I enjoyed. I love to learn
all languages in the world but my best languages so far is English, Korean, and of course Indonesian.

Eat habits.

I’m on diet so I eat less than normal people around me. I have try so many diet ways even starving
myself but I find out that may causing anorexia. So I stop that way and move to another diet. And
finally I find diet way which is work for me and I’m still in it until I can get my ideal weight.

Entertainment.

I like watching movie so much even Korean drama (that’s way I learn Korean language). But I rarely
watch TV because I think our program not entertainment enough and nothing can be learned from it.
I love listening music, I like instrumental also. My favorite instrumental are piano, guitar and violin. I
also enjoy Youtube very much, I love watching figure skating, I think Yuna Kim is the most talented
athlete among figure skater, too bad that she already retired now.

Ambitions.

I’d like to finish my study soon and get a nice job. I’d like to travel to europe with my family.
Task 4. Page 13

Describing a Person.

I usually make friends easily, so I have a lot of friends – schoolmates, neighbours, relatives. I can’t
imagine my life without them. But there is one, who will always be in the first place in my heart. Her
name is Dita and she is my closest friend.

Dita is a charming girl. She is shorter than me and has straight black hair and dark brown eyes. Like most
teenagers she pays a lot of attention to her appearance and likes dressing in the latest and most
extravagant fashion. But she also not a feminim one.

By nature Dita is communicative and outgoing and the thing she likes best is being the centre of
attention. Her biggest dream is to become a radio announcer and I truly believe that one day she’ll make
her wish come true.

As a normal human being, however, Dita also has her shortcomings. She never goes on time to her
dates. Sometimes she is absent-minded and inconsiderate and that makes people think she never takes
things seriously. But this is not true. She has a strong sense of responsibility and you can always rely on
her.

Another characteristic she has is that she’s gregarious, sensitive and emotional. She also gets confused
easily and doesn’t forget those who have caused her harm. The thing I admire most about Dita is that
she is protective and likes to look after people.

For me, friendship is the most important thing in the world. I am proud to say that I have such loyal and
helpful friend – one in a million.
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Split Up Mixed Story.
Mary Will Not Be Giving Up Smoking
1. Mary Padley smokes 60 cigarettes a day,
plus the odd Churchill-sized cigar- and she is
not giving up for anyone.
2. Even her doctor admits there is no point
asking her to stop. Mrs Padley has just
celebrated her 104rd birthday.
3. She planned a small lunch party. But forty
guests turned up and stayed until midnight.
4. Mrs. Padley saw little of the outside
world till she was 28. Orphaned at six
weeks, she was raised by nuns in Ireland
and at 17 joined the very strict Poor Clare
order, She left at 28.
5. ‘My goodness I was innocent,’ she recalls.
‘Apart from a few priests, I had never seen a
man. I knew nothing at all about life.’
6. She moved to London, where she worked
as a maid and cook. She was a nurse during
the First World War and an air-raid warden
in the Second, crawling out of bomb debris
on four occasions.
7. She married fellow warden Frederick
Padley in 1939. He died in 1961 aged 72.
8. Nowadays Mrs. Padley has a home help,
but likes doing her own house-work and
bakes all her own cakes. She used to tend
two gardens until Age Concern stopped her
digging up last year’s potato crops.
9. Her recipe for long life is ‘work hard and
don’t think too much about tomorrow’.
Wife Who Couldn’t Stop Spending
1. A housewife who went on an £11,922 three-
year spending spree complained in the London
Bankruptcy Court yesterday that credit was too
easy to get. ‘There ought to be a law to change
these things,’ she told the court. ‘It’s so easy, you
just go on and on.’
2. Mrs. Linda Smaje, 39, who earns £32 a week as
a domestic worker, and whose husband is
unemployed, used finance companies and big-
store credit cards to buy presents for her children
and furnishings for her home.
3. Questioned by Mr. Albert Biliing, Assistant
Official Receiver, she said she started opening
bank accounts, applying for credit cards, and
generally getting credit in 1979. In March 1980 she
obtained a £1,640 loan to buy a caravan. Then she
borrowed £2,000 elsewhere for kitchen
equipment she did not really need.
4. She said all she had left now were assets worth
£92. She had filed her own petition for bankruptcy
because she ‘didn’t know how to solve the
problem’.
5. Outside court Mrs. Smaje complained that the
stores and finance companies continually tempted
her to go on spending. ‘They never checked my
credit-worthiness. The always said “of course you
can have the money”.
6. ‘Every time I got a monthly statement it always
said : “Why don’t you increase your credit limit”.’
7. ‘I blame the London stores who encouraged me
to spend and spend. I just had to pick up the
telephone and ask for more and their salesman
replied: “Of course, madam”.’
Task 6.

Question :

1. Do you want to die?

2. When do you wanna die?
3. What are characteristic of someone who want to die?
4. What will you do before you die?
5. You have incureable disease, do you want your doctor give you euthanasia injection?
6. You love your boyfriend very much, but your parents don’t agree with your relationship,
what will you do?
7. What will make you live longer?
8. What will make you die sooner?

Answer :

1. Of course not, but I know everybody will die.

2. I want to die when I already have grandchild and my children can live with their own.
3. My mother said that if someone want to die soon, they will have odd behavior, like they will
talks nonsense, speak about something that related with die, and dreaming about death
4. I will praying, I wish I don’t get a painful death.
5. If the disease that bad, then I’ll ask the doctor to do it.
6. I will do whatever my parents told me, because I don’t want make them regret make me
born.
7. I don’t know, maybe if take care my health well, I will live longer.
8. I think the big reason people die sooner is when being addicted to drugs.
Task 7. Page 39.

Arranging jumbled texts.

James McClarty :

James McClarty, 16, runs a part-time bakery delivery service. Every Friday evening he goes round his
local village selling his wares-bread, rolls and teacakes, which he buys wholesale from a bakery.

‘There hasn’t been a baker in the village since the big supermarkets opened in town 10 years ago.
People like the service and especially the old-fashioned bread.’

But his organization is far from old-fashioned. He has bought a computer, which he uses to work out
orders, costs and profit. He has had the business for nine months.

He had the excellent idea of giving