Showing posts with label customs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label customs. Show all posts

Monday, 4 January 2016

Business English: Explaining Your Business Culture


Are you going to do business overseas? International business is challenging because you have to know the culture of the country (and company) you are going to visit. You should also be familiar with the culture and customs of any overseas visitors to your office.

In today's post, we're going to look at language to explain rules, customs, and guidelines to people from other countries using modal verbs of obligation 


 must, mustn't (must not)
can't (cannot)
 have/has to
need to

ought to/ought not to
should/shouldn't (should not)

can
don't/doesn't have to (do not/does not)
                                 don't/doesn't need to (do not/does not)


 Let's look at an example of how to use these words.