ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
1. What is the main function of a brand?
2. What things irritate you most while travelling?
3. What changes in business can worry you most?
4. What things are important for showing a person’s status in an organization?
5. What advertising media do you know?
6. Why is cultural awareness important for businesspeople?
7. What factors are important for getting a good job?
8. What are the characteristics of an open market and a protected one?
9. What makes a good negotiator?
10.What do you understand by a term “ethical business”?
VOCABULARY
Match the sentence beginnings (31–40) with the best endings (a–j).
1. Awareness of a brand is a) being in a very bad situation.
2. The American word ‘freeway’ b) being thrown in at the deep end.
is
3. Downsizing is c) called price fixing.
4. A video advert being sent from d) how familiar people are with it, or
friend to friend by e-mail is with its logo or slogan.
5. The difference between the e) an example of viral advertising.
price of a product and the cost
of producing it is
6. Being given a very difficult f) called a tariff.
task with little preparation time
is
7. A probationary period when g) usually three months long.
you start a job is
8. A tax on imported goods is h) the profit margin.
9. If competing companies agree i) when a company reduces the number
to hold prices at a certain level, of people it employs.
it’s
10.Being on the ropes means j) ‘motorway’ in British English.
Match the idioms and explain their meaning:
1. break a) At the deep end
2. to sink b) or swim
3. Keep your eye c) A dead horse
4. A level playing d) seat
5. Thrown in e) Hot water
6. To be neck f) A house on fire
7. Got into g) Of water
8. In the driving h) The ice
9. Get on like i) And neck
10.Fish out j) field
11.Don’t see eye k) To eye
12.Flogging l) On the ball
GRAMMAR
Complete these sentences with the present simple or the present continuous
forms of the verbs in brackets.
1. Currently, we _______________ (plan) some major changes in the
department.
2. We usually _______________ (respond) to any competition with a newer
model.
3. At present I _______________(manage) the division while my boss is away.
4. I _____________ (not/eat out) much – except when people visit the
company.
5. How often _____________ you _____________ (have) meetings?
6. They _____________ (not/do) much business with us at the moment.
7. I _____________ (not/buy) one brand because I like different types of
clothes.
Read about three problems and write the verb in brackets in the past simple,
past continuous, past perfect or present perfect.
I _____________ (spend) a fortune yesterday at a clothes shop. About £450.
Anyway, while I _______________ (leave), I ______________(realize) that I
________________(not pay) for a very expensive jacket. I was now in the street
and no-one in the shop knew…
The assistant to the Head of Finance ______________ (work) late when he came
across the accounts which didn’t add up. It _____________ (be) clear that
someone ______________ (transfer) last month’s salaries as normal but that 10%
______________ (disappear). But where to? He couldn’t find it.
Since I first ____________ (begin) working here I ______________ (take) some
of the office paper and pens home for the kids. The manager before you never
____________ (say) anything.
Underline the correct verb in italics.
1. My flight normally leaves / will leave at two but it’s late today.
2. Are you flying / Do you fly on the same flight as your boss next week?
3. A: My taxi didn’t come. - B: Don’t worry. I’ll /’m going to call another one.
4. I’m going to look forward to /I’m looking forward to seeing you on the 25th.
5. Did I give you the time of the film? It ‘s / ‘s being at eight fifteen.
6. They meet / ’re meeting at the bar tonight. Would you like to come?
7. Are you going to / Do you talk to him or do you want me to?
8. Would you mind working / to work late tonight?
9. He promised reviewing / to review my salary.
10.They suggested investing / to invest in new machinery.
11.I’m sorry but we can’t afford making / to make mistakes like that.
12.Many jobs involve doing / to do the things you don’t enjoy.
13.Would you like playing / to play golf next Sunday?
14.We stopped checking / to check so many items because of the expense.
Re-write these sentences in the passive.
1. The market research company interviews the public.
2. They’ll test the new model next week.
3. They’ve put up prices for the fifth time this year.
4. He started his first company in 1967.
5. Start the machine like this.
6. I was emailing the documents when my laptop crashed.
7. I’ve applied for a patent.
8. The delivery firm are transporting the goods now.
