Business English Collocations for Explaining Results

• Practice Business English Collocations for Explaining Results
  • I. Filling the Empty Rooms
    • 1. Listen and Choose
    • 2. Listen again and complete
    • 3. What do you say?
    • 4. Your Experience

A marketing video attracts 80,000 views, but sales stay flat. A purchasing manager negotiates lower paper prices, yet monthly costs go up. Results like these aren't always easy to explain.

In this lesson, you'll practice three Business English collocations for explaining results at work.

Practice Business English Collocations for Explaining Results

Work through three workplace situations. For each one, listen and choose the correct collocation. Then listen again and complete the gaps in the situation and response from memory.

I. Filling the Empty Rooms

1. Listen and Choose

Listen to the scenario, then choose the correct collocation to complete the sentence.

I. Listen to the scenario

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• You’re the sales manager at an airport hotel.

  
  

• You recently signed a contract with an airline. Its crews now stay at the hotel between flights.

  
  

• Since then, weekday occupancy has risen from 60% to 80%.

  
  

• At the monthly review, your general manager asks: “What’s driving the increase?”

You say:

Answer

The correct answer is C.

Well, we _____ to the airline contract. They book around 15 rooms a night.

A) link the drop in bookings

B) trace the increase in complaints

C) attribute most of the improvement

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attribute something to something

to identify what you think caused a particular result

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2. Listen again and complete

Complete the gaps as you listen. Don't look back at the first exercise.

I. Listen again

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Filling the Empty Rooms

• You’re the sales manager at an _____ hotel.

  
  

• You recently signed a contract with an airline. Its _____ now stay at the hotel between flights.

  
  

• Since then, weekday _____ has risen from 60% to 80%.

  
  

• At the monthly review, your general manager asks: “What’s _____ the increase?”

Answers

airport, crews, occupancy, driving

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3. What do you say?

Complete the response from memory. Don't look back at the first exercise.

Well, we _____ most of the improvement _____ the airline contract. They _____ around 15 rooms a night.

I. Listen and check

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Now say the complete response aloud.

Answers

attribute, to, book

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4. Your Experience

Answer the question out loud.

• Think about the most successful project you've worked on. What do you attribute its success to?

More Scenario Practice: attribute

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