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Grammar 3
sentence adverbials

Business adverbials
Student A fundamentally / essentially / broadly speaking / principally / primarily apparently / seemingly / surprisingly enough / up to a point essentially / on the other hand / believe it or not looking back / with hindsight / by and large
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Broadly speaking, the last campaign was a success. (CORRECT)

2 Although there are differences, we are with hindsight talking about the same thing. (INCORRECT essentially) 3 Of course there are advantages, but on the other hand we are taking a big risk. (CORRECT) 4 Believe it or not, our company was the very first one to introduce this feature. (CORRECT) 5 We are surprisingly enough interested in buying 50 of your machines but we may want other things too.

(INCORRECT primarily / principally)

6 Essentially, the founder of the company left school at 14. (INCORRECT surprisingly enough / believe it or not) 7 By and large, we have excellent industrial relations. (CORRECT) 8 I seemingly agree with you that it would far too risky to change suppliers at present. (INCORRECT fundamentally) 9 Up to a point, he has been offered a much better job by a rival company. (INCORRECT apparently)

10 Apparently, this computer uses a unique state-of-the-art processor. (CORRECT)

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Student B fundamentally / essentially / broadly speaking / principally / primarily apparently / seemingly / surprisingly enough / up to a point essentially / on the other hand / believe it or not looking back / with hindsight / by and large 1 What I am essentially saying is that its not too late to reconsider our strategy. (CORRECT) 2 Although we only invested 2m, on the other hand we made over 100m over the next three years. (INCORRECT surprisingly enough / believe it or not) 3 I think using a celebrity to endorse our campaign was, with hindsight, not the best option. (CORRECT) 4 Theres a seemingly endless supply of skilled, cheap labour in the country. (CORRECT) 5 Im not sure exactly what happened, but by and large head office failed to tell the branch about the new specifications. (INCORRECT apparently) 6 Broadly speaking, the key factor was that we misjudged the time it would take to build the plant. (INCORRECT looking back / with hindsight) 7 Principally, we are a supplier of sheet metal but we do do some plastics too. (CORRECT) 8 Our fantastic success is down to us apparently understanding customer needs. (INCORRECT fundamentally / essentially) 9 I agree with you up to a point as I think well need to make a few minor modifications. (CORRECT) 10 Looking back, we are fairly widespread in Latin America but want to expand into the Far East. (INCORRECT broadly speaking, by and large)

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Grammar 3
sentence adverbials

Business adverbials
Target language: sentence adverbials Activity type: sentence correction When to use: Use this activity after Lesson 5.3. Time taken: 2030 minutes Preparation: Photocopy and cut up one worksheet for each pair of students in the class. Procedure

Put students into pairs and give them the appropriate worksheet. They take it in turns to read their sentences to each other. The focus is on adverbials and the student who is listening has to say whether the sentence is correct or not. If they think it is incorrect, they need to say which adverbial from the box could be used instead. Tell students that more than one adverbial may be possible. They get a point for successfully identifying correct or incorrect sentences and an extra point for a successful correction. The winner is the student with the most points.

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