1. We would like to invite you________dinner with us.
2. Tim: Do you have any plans this weekend? Ben: _______________________________
3. If you______me, we should change our pricing policy.
4. Ben, what`s your position______this?
5. They had to close this company __________.
6. It_______wouldn`t work to use the same advertisement in different countries.
7. So Derek, how _________________?
8. It has been a long time since we have been _____ contact.
9. I ________ work from 9 to 6 last year.
10. I ________ to take my winter boots to Russia, because the weather was great.
11. It’s crucial to start on 27th June.
12. Winning the prize gave me a great sense of ___________
13. We put a lot of money into this idea-hopefully the investment will ________
14. We regularly have surveys to______ customer satisfaction.
15. This proposition is ______ ridiculous-there`s no way we can agree to it.
1 out of 6
1. Which sentence describes the chart correctly?
2. What is the meaning of the words in the bubble?
3. Mark the correct sentence.
4. What's the book about?
5. Which sentence is correct about the F&B Group?
2 out of 6
A. Read the text on three of the world’s greatest business leaders. Mark the sentences true or false.
Richard Semler is president of the Brazilian marine and food-processing machinery manufacturer Semco, an environmental activist and author of the best-selling Maverick! He has created the world’s most unusual workplace. At Semco it’s the workers who choose and evaluate their bosses. Everyone has access to financial records and 30% of employees set their own salaries. His strategy is to involve employees in decisions, eliminate hierarchies, ignore conventional wisdom, turn the company upside down and to reward talent.
Michael Dell is the founder and CEO of the Dell Corporation, the direct-sale computer business that has taken the PC world by storm. By bypassing retail stores, cutting out the middleman and offering customers tailor-made systems at low prices, Dell has become the biggest in the business, and with its successful entry into the vast Chinese market, the company looks virtually unstoppable.
Though head of the huge Virgin empire, Richard Branson prefers to play the underdog. By competing with the likes of British Airways and Coca-Cola, he has earned a reputation for stealing business off complacent market leaders – and doing it in style. A skilled self-publicist, there seems to be nothing he wouldn’t do to promote the vibrant Virgin brand.
1. At.Richard Semler’s company, employees have no say in setting their salaries.
2. Semco delivers machines for food companies.
3. Richard Branson likes competing with businesses bigger than his own.
4. Richard Branson has written a book.
5. Michael Dell might be thinking of opening a new chain of shops to help sales.
B. Read the article and choose the best answer to each of these questions (1-5)
Another day in the office, which, according to one recent study, consists of handling 46 phone calls, 25 emails, 16 voicemails, 23 items of post, eight inter office memos, 16 faxes and nine mobile phone calls. Enough to send you crazy? You may be right. Gerry McGovern, who is writing a book on information overload, is in no doubt the huge quantity of information has led to increasing stress levels and results in a downturn in productivity. ‘I think that, to some degree, long term or medium term strategic thinking is being restricted by the necessity to react to the continual bombardment of short term data,’ he says. ‘A lot of managers ar
