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Integrated Business English for College Students in the Middle East
 Contents of Unit 1 and Unit 5
Ream F. Odetallah
reem.odetalla@aau.ac.ae
Units Vocabulary Listening & Speaking Reading Structure Writing
Unit 1 – In the
office
• Abbreviations
for
office uses
• Common words
used in offices
• People’s
positions
• Nouns with the /k/,
/c/, /t/; /d/ sounds
• Creating office
problems and giving
solutions
• Differentiating
between the /c/ and
/k/; the /t/ and /d/
sounds
“I’m the Boss!”: A
newly hired Sales
Manager describes
his first day at work
• Subject & object
pronouns
• Present and past
simple verbs-to-be
• Editing the reading text
• Written description of the
pictures in simple
sentences
Unit 5 – How to
conduct interviews
and to be
interviewed
• Terms to
describe an
interviewer and
an interviewee
• Nouns with the /∫әn/;
/I
әtı/ sounds
• Discussing Mr. Hardy’s
interview
• Describing a successful
job interview
“Mr. Hardy Lost it
All”: A 5 minute
play script of a
botched interview
Present perfect
simple:
affirmatives/
negatives (y/n and
wh-questions)
• Identifying the syntactical
and semantic errors from
the paragraph and
replacing them with the
correct words
• Paraphrasing the
underlined sentences

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Examples of activities from Unit 1
 Speaking, Writing and Vocabulary exercises
(A) Write down only 10 words from the vocabulary list that contain the /k/ sound.
1. _______________ 2. _______________ 3. _______________
4. _______________ 5. _______________ 6. _______________
7. _______________ 8. _______________ 9. _______________
10. _______________
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board marker keyboard
budget laptop
central processing unit (CPU) laser printer
chair liquid crystal display (LCD)
compact disc (CD) manager
company microphone
department office supplies
desk overhead transparency (OHT)
document paper clip
employee pen
employer report
file telephone
flip chart trainee
folder trainer
handout universal serial bus (USB)
ink whiteboard
IPad

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(B) Write down only 10 words from the vocabulary list that contain the /t/ and /d/ sounds.
1. _______________ 2. _______________ 3. _______________
4. _______________ 5. _______________ 6. _______________
7. _______________ 8. _______________ 9. _______________
10. _______________
(C) From the vocabulary list, use 10 words with the /k/ sound in sentences, with the following Subject or Object Pronouns.
Subject pronouns (before a verb), e.g., It is a
huge company.
Object pronouns (after a verb), e.g., The
manager said that he wants to meet us in the
Meeting Room.
Singular pronouns
I me
he him
she her
it it
Singular and plural pronouns
you you
Plural pronouns
we us
they them
1. ____________________________________________________________________.
2. ____________________________________________________________________.
3. ____________________________________________________________________.
4. ____________________________________________________________________.
5. ____________________________________________________________________.
6. ____________________________________________________________________.
7. ____________________________________________________________________.
8. ____________________________________________________________________.
9. ____________________________________________________________________.
10. ____________________________________________________________________.
Ream F. Odetallah
reem.odetalla@aau.ac.ae

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(D) Frrom the vocabulary list, use 5 words/ phrases with the /t/ sound in Presnt Simple sentences and 5 words/ phrases with the /d/ sound in
Past Simple sentences.
Present simple verb-to-be Past simple verb-to-be
I am the trainer.
I am not the trainer.
I’m not the trainer.
I was on the telephone.
It was sent by email.
She was not on the telephone.
He wasn’t on the telephone.
She is an employee.
He is not an employee.
It isn’t written in the report.
You were in that department.
We were not in that department.
They weren’t in that department.
You are a trainee.
We are not trainees.
They aren’t trainees.
I. Present simple verb-to-be:
1. _________________________________________________________________.
2. _________________________________________________________________.
3. _________________________________________________________________.
4. _________________________________________________________________.
5. _________________________________________________________________.
II. Past simple verb-to-be:
1. _________________________________________________________________.
2. _________________________________________________________________.
3. _________________________________________________________________.
4. _________________________________________________________________.
5. _________________________________________________________________.
Ream F. Odetallah
reem.odetalla@aau.ac.ae

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 Reading and Editing exercises
(A) Read the following passage about Yousef’s new office. Then, fill in the blanks with the statements given below the text.
I’m the Boss!
1. about the company’s objectives, regulations and marketing procedures
2. I even realized that the mini whiteboard needs cleaning
3. it includes every single detail about the company, the merchandisers and the job market
4. It was a document of request for office supplies
5. The last thing that I need is to fix the bubble-wrapped telephone cable
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I am the new Sales Manager at the Mark & Larry’s Co. This are1 my first day in the office. I was first introduced to the secretary, Mrs. Woodie,
who has given her2 a document to fill in. ①_________________________________I already had some basic office supplies, but I have realized
that there was no CPU. So, i3 speculated that they replaced or formatted the LCD and placed a new laser printer, but they either forgot to
return the CPU or is4 planning to get a new one. In either case, it were5 written on the top of the request list.
②_______________________________Could it possibly be that the manager before us6 has used a permanent marker instead of a board
marker?! This weren’t 7 truly unprofessional, especially that it isn’t8 always on the use during meetings. I like the high chair, which is very
relaxing for my back, especially that my working hours are 8 hours per day, so no need to count this one in.
③_________________________Communicating with people in and out of the company is something that a manager or an employer is regularly
done on a daily basis.
After I were9 done with listing items, I attended a training workshop. The company’s owner has always trained new people, whether them10 are
experienced or not, ④________________________________. As a qualified trainer myself, we11 truly found the training session very useful
because ⑤_______________________________They12 distributed handouts about the company’s portfolio and its overseas branches.

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(B) The words in bold contain grammatical errors. Rewrite them correctly in the provided blanks as numbered.
1. ___________________________
2. ___________________________
3. ___________________________
4. ___________________________
5. ___________________________
6. ___________________________
7. ___________________________
8. ___________________________
9. ___________________________
10. ___________________________
11. ___________________________
12. ___________________________
Examples of activities from Unit 5
 Listening and Speaking
Watch Mr. Hardy’s interview, pay attention to the grammatical and behavioral mistakes committed by Mr. Hardy, and accordingly explain why do
you think he will not get the job.
 Reading and Writing
Read the paragraph below, then identify the mistakes: there are 6 grammatical mistakes and 4 semantic mistakes. After correcting them, in your
own words, paraphrase the 3 underlined sentences.
Mona and Faisal has always competed one another since them were coleagues at the Lyon’s Fashion Marketing Establishment. Both of them are
experienced professionals, who always do their tasks on time and without complaints. However, unfortunately, Faisal misunderstood a curtain point
regarding the time and place of a very important interview. He has receive an overseas phone call arranging with him an urgent local interview at
one of its international branches. He was so excited and has been waiting for this interview since years. Over the phone, the Human Resources
Manager told him to be at the local fashion company at 14 hours local time, which is known as 2 pm. For some reason, he misinterpretted the time,
thinking that he should show up after 14 hours from receiving the phone call. So, he showed up earlier than expected and tried to contact the
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intended person via email and phone, but there was no response. The next day, Mona seemed very excited. She has shared openly her feelings with
her friends at work, especially with Faisal, her number one rivel. When she was asked why the excitement, she simply said: “I got a phone call earlier
today from England from a mother-branch of a fashion company. Tomorrow I have an interview at 14 hundred hours with the CEO of the Hamad
Fashion Branch in Abu Dhabi. And since 7 am, I not have slept a tad!”
(A) Write down the 6 corrected Grammar words and the 4 corrected Semantic words.
Corrected Grammar Corrected Semantics
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
4. 4.
5.
6.
(B) Paraphrase the underlined sentences on the following lines.
1. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ream F. Odetallah
reem.odetalla@aau.ac.ae

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 An example of the glossary
Words Phonology Semantics
archive (n) /’a:kaiv/ a collection of inactive records
asset (n) /æ set/ anything of value which is owned by an individual, company, etc.
attach (v) /ә ‘tæt ∫/ join, connect, fasten, add
average (adj) /æ vәridȝ/ typical, normal, usual, medium, standard
board marker (n)
/bɔːrd maːrkәr/
a large pen used to write on white boards, normally in classrooms
budget (n)
/’bʌdȝıt/
the money that is available to an organization or person
central processing unit-CPU (n) /’sentrәl prәƱsesiη ‘juːnıt/ a hardware device that is responsible for processing and saving digital data, aka
computer’s brain
Ream F. Odetallah
reem.odetalla@aau.ac.ae