SECTION 1: VOCABULARY

1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of these words.

For example: manage ─ manager

employ / produce / manufacture / China / promote / manage / retail

1 Mr Yang is _______chinese________. He’s from Beijing.

2 The company has more than 10,000 _________employees_______.

3 Mr Petrov is the project ________manager________.

4 We are a big ____________producer____ and our shops sell many different things.

5 We sell many of our ____retail____________ in other countries.

6 We are a _______manufacturing_________ company. We make plastic boxes.

7 The marketing department ___promote_____________ the new services.

2 Choose a word to complete the paragraph.

network / challenge / conference / multinational / members

We work for a (1) _________multinational _______ company. Its headquarters are in New
York. New technology is always a big (2) ____challenge____________ for everyone. All our IT
team (3) ______members__________ usually attend the international (4)
_________conference_______ so they can learn what is new. There they can (5)
__________network______ and make contact with a lot of possible new customers.

SECTION 2: LANGUAGE

3 Underline the correct word.

1 The CEO arrives/arrive at six o’clock this evening.

2 They makes/make cars in Korea.

3 He don’t/doesn’t work for an American company.

4 Does/Do the employees work hard?

5 Do/Does you have John’s address?

6 She works as a/the designer.

7 I always leaves/leave the office at 5.30pm.

8 He sometimes have/has lunch in a restaurant.

9 We are/is interested in sports.

10 Are you Isabel? Yes, I are/am.

11 Does he live/lives in Paris?

12 I work for a/the big company. It’s called Hewlett Packard.

Complete the sentences with either a, an or the.

(1) __a_____ company I work for is (2) ____a___ international company which makes
computers. (3) ___the____ company is called Lenovo. It’s (4) ___a____ Chinese company. (5)
____the___ CEO arrives at (6) _____an__ airport at six in (7) _the______ morning. He usually
gets (8) _a______ taxi back to (9) ____the___ office.

VOCABULARY

Choose the correct word.

1 The goods are made in our factory/manufacturer in Spain.

2 George Morden is the finder/founder of the company.

3 Our headquarters/top offices are in Dubai.

4 The company specialises/interests in making shoes.

5 His company produces/products electrical goods.

6 We sell our products in retail/manufacturing outlets in Europe.

7 The new company is very profit/profitable.

8 We are based in Korea, but we have subsidies/subsidiaries in many other countries.

9 The company employees/employs over 10,000 people.

10 The human/people resources department finds staff for a company.

LISTENING

Task 1: listen and complete the blanks

Katya

Hi, I’m Katya. I’m a project manager for an international bank. I like big teams because there are
always (1)…………… of ideas. It’s important to have team meetings. It’s a good idea to meet
every (2)………….. to discuss the project. Sometimes we have video (3)………………...
International teams are interesting. In our team there are people from (4)……….. countries. So
we learn about how different countries do (5)……………...

Graham

Hello, I’m Graham. I’m an IT manager. I work with a team from different (6)……………… in
my company. The team members often have (7)……………….. ideas, so it’s important to listen
to other people’s opinions. It’s important to listen to give your opinion, too, of course. It isn’t
always (8)…………………. to have formal meetings. I like informal teams. A good way to (9)
……………….. is by email. We often send one email to all the team members so that we all
have the (10)…………………. information.

Task 2: listen and choose the correct options

Recording 1

1. Who does Mr John Jacords work for?

A. Lordo B. Lorco C. Lorko D. Lorto

2. What does the John’s company do?

A. Produce DVD players C. Retail CD players

B. Manufacture MP3 players D. Supply game players

3. What is the name of the second person on the training course?

A. Celacruz C. Delacruz
B. Dilacruz D. Cilacruz

4. What does Project Playa company do?

A. Builds houses C. Build hotels

B. Builds offices D. Build universities

5. What company is the third one (Mrs Sanja Berkovic) from?

A. SKP industries B. FKP industries

 C. SCP industries D. ZKP industries

6. How many people does the third company employ?

A. 15 C. 19
B. 50 D. 90

Making up sentences with the suggested words/ phrases

1. General Electric Co/ operate/ more / than/ 100 / country.

-> General electric co operates in more than 100 countries.

2. He/ be/ always/ on business/ more/ 50%/ his time.

-> he is always on business more than 50% of his time

3. He/ try/ meet/ customers/ about/ a week/ month.

-> he tries to meet customers about a week in a month

4. Carlos Ghosn/ be/ one/ the world’s/ great/ business leader.

-> Carlos Ghosn is one of the world’s greatest of business leader

5. He/ often/ arrive/ the office/ 7 o’clock/ the morning.

-> he often arrives at the office at 7 o’clock in the morning

6. Marketing executives/ earn/ high/ salary/ that company.

-> marketing executives earn a high salary in that company

7. Not/ take/ any/ visitor/ to/ those/ area/ late/ night.

-> don’t take any visitors to those area at late night

8. I’ve got some problems with cash flow.

-> I’ve got some problem with cash flow

9. I/ got/ some/ problem/cash flow.

-> I’ve got some problem with cash flow

10. I/ like/ book/ table for ten/ twelve o’clock.

-> I would like to book a table for ten at twelve o’clock

11. How much/ pair/ shoe/ cost?

->how much does pair of shoe cost?

12. He/ leave/ Hanoi/ business trip/ last week.

-> he left in Hanoi on a business trip last week

13. We/ move/ new offices/ moment/ because/ our branch/ expand.

->we are moving to the new offices at the moment because our branch is expanding

14. How many/ airport/ be/ there/ New York.

-> how many airport are there in new York?

15. The company/ specialize/ product/ the defense, electronics/ motor industries

-> the company specialize product of the defense electronics in motor industries

16. The/ company’s share price/ fall/ 5%/ last month.

-> the company’s share price fell off by 5%last month

17. You/ me/ way/ nearest train station/ please?

-> can you show me the nearest train station pls?

18. Nissan/ export/ 50,000 cars/ over 20 countries/ 2019.

-> Nissan exported 50000 cars to over 20 countries in 2019

19. Company/ successful/ because/ have/ good advertising campaigns.

-> company is successful because of having good advertising campaigns

20. Sometimes/ it/ possible/ negotiate/ discount/ large orders.

-> sometimes it is possible to negotiate a discount on large order