Business Partner B1 Extra activities

UNIT 3 Projects
Lesson 3.2Large-scale projects

Listening A 3.01 Match the words and phrases in each column to make collocations from
the recording. Then listen again and check your answers.
1. E 1 begin a schedule
2. D 2 run b money
3. F 3 miss c under budget
4. A 4 fall behind d over budget
5. B 5 run out of e work
6. C 6 come in f a target

B Complete the sentences with the collocations in Exercise A. Use the

correct verb form.
1 We our of producing 10,000 units a month by about 300.
1. Missed a tarjet 2 Great news! We’ve and saved the project $3,500.
2. Come in under budget 3 When are you going to on the new design?
3. Begin work 4 We by about three days last month when the factory shut down
4. Fell behind a schedule because of a technical problem, so we’re going to hand over late.
5. Run out of money 5 If we keep spending so much, we’re going to , and we may not
6. Run over budget be able to raise more.
6 Because the cost of supplies went up, we by about $1,000 –
nothing serious.

C Complete the sentences with the two words in brackets.

1 The Amazon River is about one hundred metres at the deepest point and has
an average of twenty to fi fty metres. (deep / depth)
1. depth/deep
2 Japan’s Yodo River has a of about seventy-fi ve kilometres while the Kamo River
2. long/lenght
is only about thirty-one kilometres . (long / length)
3. width/wide 3
Germany’s Emmerich Rhine Bridge crosses the river where it’s four hundred
metres , though it has a of more than half a kilometre in some
places. (wide / width)

Grammar D Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative form of the
adjectives and adverbs in the box.

big clearly diffi cult easy expensive experienced

important popular quickly urgently

1. biggest 1 With a population of 17 million, Delhi is city in India.

2. is more popular than 2 Internationally, soccer is baseball.
3. is more difficult 3 Chinese has 50,000 characters, so learning them is not learning the
4. more expensive 26 letters of the English alphabet.
5. 4 The rooms cost only a few dollars per night, so the Budget Inn is hotel in
6. more experienced than town.
5 Manufacturing is industry to China’s economy.
7.
6 As he’s just fi nished university, David is Helena, so I don’t think we should
8.
off er him the job.
9. more urgent 7
I fi nished my degree than I wanted to. It took me fi ve years instead of four.
10. clearliest 8
Her subject in school was art, because she loved drawing and painting,
and she was good at it.
9
My job application is due tomorrow, so I need to complete it my passport
10 application, which I have to send next week.
I always understood what my boss was saying because he spoke of
everyone in the offi ce.