English in a Minute: Beth teaches you some verbs that can be used with 'business'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Business is connected to work and any commercial activity, especially buying and selling. There are some words that we often use together. These are called collocations. Learn some of the verbs that we often use with the noun 'business' with Beth in this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:04.8 | We hope you're ready to learn because we mean business. If you mean business, you are |
| 0:10.8 | serious and determined about what you're doing. Meet Barbara. She works in business. |
| 0:18.4 | It's the area of work she does. I'm an operations analyst and my husband is an |
| 0:24.8 | auditor. We work in business. Now meet Joshua. He's set up a business. That means he's prepared, |
| 0:35.1 | planned and now has a business. I've set up a bakery. I make and sell |
| 0:41.3 | cakes and bread. He's the owner, but he's also running the business. That means he's managing it |
| 0:48.8 | and working in it. Unfortunately, his customers aren't very happy. |
| 0:55.2 | Ten pounds for a loaf of bread? |
| 0:57.8 | You're going to go out of business with those prices. |
| 1:01.4 | If you go out of business, you don't make enough money |
| 1:04.3 | and you have to close down. |
| 1:06.4 | Poor Joshua. |
| 1:08.5 | BBC Learning English. |
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