Business English: Describing Company Structure
Describing company structure is the B2 daily-business skill every consultant, new hire, and stakeholder needs. The worksheet covers vocabulary for organisational layers (board, executive team, department, division, subsidiary, branch), reporting relationships (reports to, is responsible for, oversees, manages), and structural types (hierarchical, flat, matrix, decentralised). Learners build the productive vocabulary that workplace introductions and reorganisation discussions require.
This worksheet builds B2 fluency with company-structure description.
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What’s inside:
- A vocabulary box with 30+ structural terms
- Organigram-reading task: describe the chart in prose
- Workplace-introduction gap-fill: complete an onboarding briefing
- Comparison task: contrast two different company structures
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Structural vocabulary varies by industry — partner, principal, senior, director mean different things across firms. Reporting-relationship language: reports to (chain of command) vs works with (collaboration). Distinguishing roles from people: the role of CFO vs our CFO.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study — particularly business professionals. Maps onto BEC Vantage. Part of the Daily Business Communication collection — the natural next step is Problem-Solving at Work.
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