In this section you will have an opportunity to check your knowledge of the material covered in the course book unit by unit. Each unit has the following sections - Working with words, Business communication skills, Language at work, and Practically speaking. These sections deal with core vocabulary associated with the unit theme, key functional expressions, and related grammar. 

You may find our phrase bank very useful as it is presented in the form of audible dialogues which makes it very easy to learn and practice. The bank has sections for all possible situations which you may come across at business meetings, discussions and presentations. Listen, read, repeat and memorize!

On this page you will find Glossary for each unit of the text book presented in the form of flash cards.

Asking for help and advice

Formal emails are used when the writer is asking advice from someone outside their company, someone they don’t know very well, or someone they consider to be more senior to them. Informal emails asking for advice would most likely be sent to colleagues at a similar level in the company, or to people the writer knows relatively well.

In this unit we are going to look at a simple way of making a preliminary check on the accuracy of the entries made in the ledger. We will do this by balancing the accounts and then drafting a trial balance. We will start, however, by demonstrating how the folio column in the ledger can be used to provide a reference system for all the double entries. Such a system helps to speed up the process pf checking that all the double entries have been completed correctly.