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 ________________. He’s from Beijing.

2 The company has more than 10,000 ________________.

3 Mr Petrov is the project ________________.

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

5 We sell many of our ________________ in other countries.

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

7 The marketing department ________________ the new services.

2 Choose a word to complete the paragraph.

network / challenge / conference / multinational / members

We work for a (1) ________________ company. Its headquarters are in New York. New
technology is always a big (2) ________________ for everyone. All our IT team (3)
________________ usually attend the international (4) ________________ so they can learn
what is new. There they can (5) ________________ 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) _______ company I work for is (2) _______ international company which makes computers.
(3) _______ company is called Lenovo. It’s (4) _______ Chinese company. (5) _______ CEO
arrives at (6) _______ airport at six in (7) _______ morning. He usually gets (8) _______ taxi
back to (9) _______ 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