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Business English- Simple Past of Common Verbs

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Past Simple for business classes pronunciation and speaking

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Common Business English verbs Past Simple practice

Instructions for teachers

Cut up one complete set of cards per group of two to four students (with one verb per card), plus make one more copy per student (for reference and to check their answers with). Ask each group to work together to put the words into four groups by their Past Simple pronunciation. If they get stuck or think they have finished, tell them how many should be in each group, tell them what the four categories are and/ or explain why the different words have different pronunciations of “-ed”.

Give them uncut copies to check their answers with (as the words are already in the four groups). After answering any questions, ask them to take turns continuing a story related to business with verbs from the pack, e.g. Student A: “My company launched a new product last week.”, Student B: “Unfortunately, all the customers complained it gave off a strange smell”, etc.

 

Verbs to classify and use for storytelling/ Suggested answers

 

-ed pronounced /d/

 

 

Sign

 

 

Socialise

 

 

Staple

 

 

Supervise

 

 

Train

 

 

Travel

 

 

Use

 

 

Install

 

 

Offer

 

 

Organise

 

 

Phone

 

 

Receive

 

 

Repair

 

 

Save

 

 

Exchange

 

 

Explain

 

 

Agree

 

 

Apologise

 

 

Complain

 

 

Disagree

 

 

 

-ed pronounced /t/

 

 

Stamp

 

 

Thank

 

 

Type

 

 

Launch

 

 

Purchase

 

 

Discuss

 

Drop

 

 

Attach

 

 


 

 

-ed pronounced /id/

 

 

Waste

 

 

Invite

 

 

Negotiate

 

 

Present

 

 

Print

 

 

Provide

 

 

Reject

 

 

Request

 

 

Attend

 

 

Calculate

 

 

Decide

 

 

Download

 

 

 

Irregular Past Simple

 

 

Be

 

 

Begin

 

 

Cost

 

 

Cut

 

 

Deal

 

 

Do

 

 

Fall

 

 

Give

 

 

Grow

 

 

Have

 

 

Lead

 

 

Leave

 

 

Quit

 

 

Pay

 

 

Read

 

 

Rise

 

 

Sell

 

 

Send

 

 

Spend

 

 

Write

 

 

 

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