Compilation of practical tasks
On the subject "ENGLISH AS A MEANS BUSINESS COMMUNICATION"

Subject task 1 (Case study 1)
Move these proposals into English using the official statement:
1. We regret to inform you ...
2. I hope that our cooperation will be successful.
3. Please let me know if you need help.
4. I would be very grateful if you would let me visit your company.
5. Thank you for your kind invitation, but I can not see your company because of the high employment work.

Subject task 2 (Case study 2)
Add text with the words: bald, beard, blue, casually, early, ears, fair, glasses, good-looking, heavily, look, narrow, serious, smile, straight, strong, thin.

1. I´m in my ........ fifties.
2. I´m very tall and quite .............. built, but I have rather ......... shoulders.
3. I´m a little overweight.
4. I have ........... medium-length .............. hair, but I´m going ........... ., so there is not a lot of it left.
5. I have a gray ............ and moustache.
6. My eyes are ..........., and I wear ................
7. I´ve got a rather long face, with a ........... chin, a big nose and a big .............
8. I have ......... lips, and I usually have a ........... expression; but my face changes a lot when I .........
9. I have a high forehead; I like to think that it looks intelligent.
10. Clothes are not very important to me, and I´m usually very ......... dressed.
11. I do not think I´m very ..........., but I´m not all that bad-looking either.
12. I probably .............. a bit younger than I am.

Subject task 3 (task Cituatsionnaya 3).
You need to ask for directions. Read and memorize expressions:

Excuse me, can you tell me the way to ......?
could you tell me the way to ....., please?
will you show me the way to ......, please?
would you show me the way to ..., please?
how can / do I get to ....?
where´s the nearest ...?

Make five short dialogues, using words and useful expressions of columns A and B.
A B
post - office go straight on / ahead
stadium turn right at the corner
concert hall turn left at the crossroad
art gallery turn the corner and go along
supermarket cross the street and take the bus
exhibition walk up to the traffic lights
town hall take the first turn to the left
local market take the right fork in the road


Subject task 4 (Case study 4)

Restore your vocabulary. Each word word (antonym) pick up the opposite meaning. Record pairs word and its antonym.

Agree, always, awake, beginning, buy, cheap, dark, dead, dirty, early, easy, empty, fast, female, find, first., Generous, happy, heavy, high, honest, hot, indoors, intelligent, interesting , into, laugh, left, long, love, most, new, nice, north-east, optimistic, outside, pull, question, quiet, remember, safe, stop, strong, take off, tall, thin, top, true, up, upstairs, warm, wet, win, wrong, young.

Subject task 5 (Cituatsionnaya task 5)

Read the questionnaire that you will fill in the agency employment. Turn the questions. In each section, add 1-2 more question.

PERSONALITY
Are you: interested in people?
energetic?
ambitious?
.................
.................

ABILITIES AND SKILLS

Have you got: a good memory?
a sense of humor?
.............
............ ..

Are you: artistic?
practical?
logical?
..............
...............

Can you :?
drive?
speak any foreign languages?
..............
..............

PREFERENCES

Do you like: working on your own?
taking responsibility?
.................
.................
Do you mind: working long