1.3 Vocabulary booster – Days, Months, Times

A Put the days of the week in order. Which days are ‘the weekend’?

Friday  Sunday 

Monday  Thursday 

Saturday  Wednesday 

Tuesday 

B Write the months of the year under the correct seasons.

June April January August December February May October March September November July

Spring	Summer	Autumn	Winter

С Telling the time

There are three different ways of saying the time:

1 In conversation, we use past (AmE after) and to (AmE of)

five past two	ten past eight	quarter past one	half past three	nine o’clock
five to seven	ten to eleven	quarter to seven	twenty to six	twelve o’clock

2 Sometimes we use he figures only. Say the figures in the order you see them.

2.05 two oh five 8.10 eight ten

1.15 one fifteen 3.30 three thirty

6.55 six fifty-five 10.50 ten fifty

6.45 six forty-five 5.40 five forty

With this form, we often say a.m. for the morning and p.m. for the afternoon and evening.

e.g. The office closes at 5.30 p.m.

Breakfast is served between 7 and 9 a.m.

3 In Britain and the USA, we usually use the 24-hour lock only to talk about travel timetables.

17.20 Seventeen twenty 22.45 twenty-two forty-five

D Look at the clocks. Write the times. Practise saying them.

1)It’s______________	2)It’s______________	3)It’s______________	4)It’s______________
5)It’s______________	6)It’s______________	7)It’s______________	8)It’s______________

1.4 Business communication - introductions

i Introducing yourself

Let me introduce myself. My name’s…. Hello. I’m …….

How do you do? Pleased to meet you. Nice to meet you.

ii Introducing another person

Let me introduce you to ….. This is my colleague….. Nice to meet you.

How do you do? or Nice / Pleased to meet you. Nice to meet you too.

iii Other questions

Where are you from? What do you do? Who do you work for?

I’m from… (I work in….) I’m a …. What about you? I work for….. and you?

A Sally Kent is the editor of the Business Monthly magazine. She introduces Simon Hastings to two other people.

1 Listen and fill in the gaps in the table below.

A	B	C	D
Sally Kent American editor Business Monthly	Siman Hastings British ……………..1 ……………..2	Alessandra Boni ……Italian…..3 ……………..4 ……SAP…..5	Akiko Takajima ……………..6 ……………..7 ……………..8

B What expressions do A,B,C,D use to make introductions? Listen again and fill in the gaps.

A: Alessandra, __________ __________ ___________¹ you to my colleague, Siman Hastings.

B: How __________ __________ ___________² ? Pleased to __________³ you.

C: How __________ __________ ___________⁴ ?

B: Do you work here, Alessandra?

C: No, I work for SAP. I’m a consultant. __________ ___________⁵ my colleague Akiko Takajima.

D: Nice __________ __________ ___________⁶

B: Nice __________ __________ __________ ___________⁷ , Akiko. Where are you from?

D: I’m from Osaka, in Japan.

B: Where do you work?

D: I work for SAP in Frankfurt. I’m a __________ ___________⁸ . And you?

B: I’m __________ __________ __________ ___________⁹ here at Business Monthly. Sally’s my boss.

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