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Positive and negative connotations in business vocabulary storytelling speaking.

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Positive and negative business vocabulary storytelling game

Instructions for teachers

Photocopy and cut up the cards that you want to use with your students and ask them to spread them face up across the table. Students take turns spending exactly two minutes telling an anecdote using the words on as many cards as they can. After they finish, their partner can tell them if they used any of the words the wrong way, then they can keep the rest of the cards. The person with the most cards at the end is the winner.

After they finish, you can do the word formation task below and/ or give them a copy of the worksheet with no bold and ask them to circle the positive words.

 

Positive and negative business vocabulary word formation

Make at least one more kind of word from each word below (e.g. a noun from the adjective that is there), then check with the cards.

  • achieve
  • success
  • fail
  • challenge
  • corporation
  • fund
  • profit
  • complain
  • solution
  • delay
  • manage
  • worse
  • improve
  • enhancement
  • diversification
  • special
  • expansion
  • fluctuation
  • recover
  • risky
  • bankrupt
  • innovator
  • invent
  • lead
  • patented
  • partner
  • scandalous
  • dismissal
  • earn
  • promotion

Circle the positive words above, then check that with the cards.


Business storytelling vocabulary cards – No bold version

 

achieve(ment)/ succeed (in)/ success

 

 

fail (to)/ failure

 

 

beat/ win (an award)

 

boom

 

collapse/ crash

 

cut costs

 

 

benefit (from)

 

build(ing)

 

challenge/ challenging

 

 

(corporate/ in) debt

 

fund(ing)

 

profit(able/ability)

 

 

complain(t/ts)

 

(unique) selling point(s)

 

 

solve/ (find a) solution

 

delay(ed)

 

manage(ment)

 

 

reach

 

deteriorate/ worsen

 

improve(ment)/ enhance(ment)

 

gain (market share)

 

 

diversify/ diversification

 

special(ise/isation)

 

 

too (much/ many)/ over-…

 

expand/ expansion

  

 

experience turbulence/ be unstable/ fluctuate

 

recover (from)/ recovery/ bounce back/ rebound

 

export (to)

 

launch (a new product)

 

risk/ risky

 

 

bankrupt/ bankruptcy

 

 

invest (in)/ investment

 

save/ savings

 

not… enough/ under-…

 

 

innovate/ innovation/ innovator

 

upgrade

 

invent(or/ion)

 

 

out of date/ outdated

 

run out

 

lead(ing)/ (market) leader

 

(make a) mistake

  

 

top (seller/ performance/ quality/…)

 

patent/ patented

 

 

partner/ partnership

 

scandal/ scandalous

 

lose (money)/ (net) loss

 

 

plan/ planning

 

set up/ found

 

dismiss/ dismissal

 

 

earn/ earnings

 

promote/ promotion

 

ignore

 

 

reach

 

 

suffer from


Business storytelling vocabulary cards – Positive words in bold version

 

achieve(ment)/ succeed (in)/ success

 

fail (to)/ failure

  

 

beat/ win (an award)

 

boom

 

collapse/ crash

 

cut costs

 

 

benefit (from)

 

build(ing)

 

challenge/ challenging

 

 

(corporate/ in) debt

 

fund(ing)

 

profit(able/ability)

 

 

complain(t/ts)

 

(unique) selling point(s)

 

 

solve/ (find a) solution

 

delay(ed)

 

manage(ment)

 

 

reach

 

deteriorate/ worsen

 

improve(ment)/ enhance(ment)

 

gain (market share)

 

 

diversify/ diversification

 

special(ise/isation)

 

 

too (much/ many)/ over-…

 

expand/ expansion

 

 

experience turbulence/ be unstable/ fluctuate

 

recover (from)/ recovery/ bounce back/ rebound

 

export (to)

 

launch (a new product)

 

risk/ risky

 

 

bankrupt/ bankruptcy

 

 

invest (in)/ investment

 

save/ savings

 

not… enough/ under-…

 

 

innovate/ innovation/ innovator

 

upgrade

 

invent(or/ion)

 

 

out of date/ outdated

 

run out

 

lead(ing)/ (market) leader

 

(make a) mistake

   

 

top (seller/ performance/ quality/…)

 

patent/ patented

 

 

partner/ partnership

 

scandal/ scandalous

 

lose (money)/ (net) loss

 

 

plan/ planning

 

set up/ found

 

dismiss/ dismissal

 

 

earn/ earnings

 

promote/ promotion

 

ignore

 

 

reach

 

 

suffer from

 

Storytelling phrases cards 

 

accident(al/ally)

 

 

after

 

 

… ago

 

 

almost

 

 

as soon as

 

 

at first

 

 

at that moment

 

 

at the end

 

 

by

 

 

cause

 

 

during

 

 

final(ly)

 

fortunate(ly)

 

 

happen

 

 

in the end

 

 

in the meantime

 

 

initial(ly)

 

 

later (that day)

 

 

luckily

 

 

meanwhile

 

 

nearly

 

 

next

 

 

occur

 

 

one day

 

 

reason

 

 

since then

 

 

soon

 

 

sudden(ly)

 

 

the following

 

 

the next

 

 

then

 

 

unfortunately

 

 

when

 

 

while

 

was/ were …ing

 

had (already)…

 

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