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Market Leader Elementary Unit 3
Make sentences describing problems with “some” or “not any”, ask for your partner’s advice, and then react to their advice, making exchanges like:
A: “We don’t have any more laptop computers”
B: “I suggest moving/ I think you should move one of the desktop computers into the meeting room”
A: “That might work/ That’s a good idea. I’ll give it a try.”/ “That might be a bit time consuming. Do you have any other ideas?”
Make sure that you choose the right one of “some” and “not any” to make the thing that you choose a problem.
Suggested topics/ nouns
- argument
- available manager
- background noise while you are on the phone
- ballpoint pen
- big complaint
- boring presenter
- cheap hotel near to (= close to) the conference centre
- clean cup
- cockroach
- confusing page on your company’s website
- dangerous corner
- dark desk
- dirty mug in the office sink
- double-booked meeting room
- drink in the vending machine
- early morning flight to where you need to go next week
- early morning meeting next week
- employee available to attend a trade fair
- English lesson
- English textbook
- free chair
- free desk
- free room
- high shelf
- hot pipe in the kitchen
- ice cube
- idea
- inflexible manager
- interruption during meetings
- laptop computer
- lighter
- manual
- meeting that you must go to at 9 o’clock tomorrow
- message for your boss, who won’t be back until Friday
- message on your answering machine which you need to answer as soon as possible
- messy (= untidy) co-worker
- missing item when your order is delivered
- mistake with invoices
- mobile phone charger
- money to…
- mosquito
- native speaker
- noise on the phone line
- noisy colleague
- old carton of milk in the office fridge (= refrigerator)
- old manager
- pack of photocopy paper
- person called John Smith in your company
- person calling while your co-worker is out of the office
- person off sick
- person on another line
- person to answer the phone
- person to translate from Italian
- person with experience
- phone call during meetings
- phone ringing while your colleague is away from their desk
- photocopy toner cartridge
- Post-it note
- question about the email that you have just received
- receptionist
- risky investment
- roll of toilet paper
- secure USB stick
- slow computer
- Spanish-speaking person phoning
- stressful meeting on Monday morning
- supply of…
- taxi outside the building
- teabag
- time to…
- tricky address to dictate
- unreliable computer in the office
- vacuum cleaner
- very important visitor
- volunteer
What phrases can you use to ask for advice, give advice and comment on people’s advice?
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