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Progress Test 3 (Units 9–12)

Listening

You are going to hear part of a meeting between Suzanne Dupont and Rob

Clements, her senior manager. Rob has asked Suzanne to come into his

office.

Read the first three questions. Then listen and mark your answers.

1 Rob Clements and Suzanne Dupont discuss …

a) Suzanne’s present job.

b) her present salary.

c) a new job.

2 It’s the responsibility of the Lisbon manager to …

a) increase profits.

b) increase turnover.

c) increase the number of staff.

3 The team is …

a) all British.

b) all Portuguese.

c) a mix of British and Portuguese.

Now read the next three questions. Then listen and write down the number

you hear.

4 The number of people in the Lisbon team is: ............ .

5 The job contract they discuss is for ............ years.

6 Rob offers Suzanne a ............ percent increase in salary.

Read the next two questions. Then listen and mark your answers.

7 What does the package of benefits include?

(Tick all the benefits that Rob talks about.)

a) free travel

b) free accommodation

c) eight weeks’ annual leave

d) company car

e) profit-related bonus

f) full pension plan

8 What would Suzanne like?

(Tick all the things she says she would like.)

a) a bigger increase in salary

b) a bigger office

c) more information about the situation in Portugal

d) the chance to work in another country

e) time to think

f ) to visit Portugal next week

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Vocabulary

Choose a word from the box to complete the list of things you would like to

have if you were setting up a new business.

EXAMPLE : government grants

................

9 availability of ............ staff

10 low bank ............ rates

11 ............ local economy

12 ............ rents in the area where you want to

set up

13 ............ incentives offered

by the regional government

14 good ............ links

a) plant

b) skilled

c) trade

d) tax

e) cheap

f) government

g) stable

h) transport

i) interest

Replace the underlined words in the text with a word that has the opposite

meaning.

Stuart Francis is a good bad negotiator.

......

During discussions, he is generally calm ............ 15 and shows a lot of

patience ............ 16 . One of his strengths ............ 17 is that he tends to be

creative ............ 18 when handling conflict. His negotiating counterparts say

that he is sympathetic ............ 19 and friendly ............ 20 in his

relationships with them.

Choose a word from the box to complete the description of product qualities.

a) high

b) hard

c) best

d) long

e) well

f) low

g) poor

This is one of the best -selling products in its range. And you can see why. It’s

......

............ -designed, and made from 22 ............ -quality materials, which we

have specially chosen for their 23 ............ -wearing and 24 ............ -lasting

characteristics. And for all that, it’s an incredibly 25 ............ -cost option.

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Functions

Choose the best word or phrase from the box to complete the product

presentation.

a) is ideal for

b) made of

c) is designed to d) also has

e) a very useful feature

f) weighs

g) comes in

h) another

i) has several special features

j) Let me tell you something about

..........................................

This is a powerful little machine, and with 30 gigabytes of memory, it offers

tremendous capacity. It ..................... 26 , including a built-in MP 3 player

with excellent sound quality. It ..................... 27 a CD burner so that you

can both download music and record it onto CD. The G11 ..................... 28

travelling as it is extremely lightweight and ..................... 29 only 1600

grams. This lap-top ..................... 30 be used anywhere: at the airport, on

the plane or in your hotel room. ..................... 31 is the infra-red port,

which means that, in certain locations, you can connect to the Web without

any wires. As a special offer, we are giving away a useful carrying case which is

..................... 32 best quality leather, and ..................... 33 several

different colours. ..................... 34 advantage is that it comes with the

latest software already installed.

Choose the best phrase from the box to complete each of the short

conversations.

a) Really?

b) How about if

c) How about you?

d) Why don’t we come back to that later?

e) We’ve got a deal.

f ) What do you like to do in your spare time?

g) I can see your point of view.

h) It’s very kind of you, but another time perhaps.

Conversation 1

Chris: This project has been very hard work, so I hope to get some more free

time now that it’s finishing.

George: ..................... 35

Chris: I love to go skiing in the winter.

George: ..................... 36 I like skiing too. Where do you usually go?

Chris: Canada. It’s beautiful there, and there are not too many people.

..................... 37 Where do you usually go?

George: I like Austria.

Conversation 2

Charlie: Delivery next week is no good to me at all. I must have delivery in two

days, or the deal is off.

Bobby: ..................... 38 . You don’t want to wait a week for the goods.

..................... 39 we could promise delivery in three days?

Charlie: Well, we could think about that. ..................... 40

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Conversation 3

Alex:

OK, that’s it. We agree to your proposal. ..................... 41

Jo:

Excellent! Now we can celebrate. I’d like to invite you to my favourite

restaurant for dinner tonight. Can you come?

Alex:

..................... 42 . I have a plane to catch at 8 p.m.

Jo:

That’s a pity. Next time, then.

Grammar

Choose a verb from the box to complete each sentence and write it in the

correct form, active or passive.

produce

modify

launch

manufacture

have

look at

promote

offer

distribute

......

............ 43 it, and decides if they think it will sell. Sometimes, the Research

Department ............ 44 the design a little. Next, a prototype ............ 45 to

see if it works. Then maybe it ............ 46 to a small number of customers on

a trial basis. If everything looks OK, the new product ............ 47 on a large

scale. The marketing department ............ 48 the product through an

advertising campaign, and then it ............ 49 onto the market. Large

quantities of the product ............ 50 to sales outlets all over the world.

Antonio Cortez discusses the visit of some customers with his assistant,

Pedro Mendes. Write the verbs in the correct tense.

Antonio Cortez:

Our visitors from Korea (come) are coming at 9 a.m. on Thursday. As soon as

................

they (arrive) ............ 51 , I want you to get everyone together in Conference

Room A. Katarina Fischer and I are going to be a bit late, so while you (wait)

............ 52 for us, you can offer our guests some coffee and make them feel

welcome. If they (want) ............ 53 to start the meeting, just explain the

problem. Please don’t start discussing anything important until Katarina and I

(get) ............ 54 there.

Now, I’ve arranged a tour of the factory, and it would be good if we can visit the

new production facilities before we (go) ............ 55 for lunch at 12.30. If we

(be) ............ 56 behind schedule, we can always postpone the factory tour

until the afternoon. It wouldn’t be a good idea to start the tour after midday. I

think our guests would feel unhappy if they (have) ............ 57 to rush. OK.

Now what about the new brochures? Are they ready yet?

Pedro Mendes:

Well, no. I talked to Marketing this morning and they said that the brochures

(be) ............ 58 delayed. They asked me when we (want) ............ 59 to

have them, and I said that we (need) ............ 60 to have them for Thursday

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Writing

You are one of the group from Korea who visited Antonio and Pedro (see

Grammar Exercise B). Following your visit, you write a letter of thanks to

Antonio.

In your letter, you can talk about:

• a successful meeting • meeting Katarina Fischer and Pedro Mendes

• an interesting tour of the factory • lunch

• doing business in the future.

155-8 Yeonhee-Dong, Seoul 120-100 Korea

Dear Antonio

I am writing to thank you ...

Geo-D

Reading

Read the article about starting your own business. Some words have been

taken out of the text. These words are listed (a to g) in the box on page 27.

Complete each gap with the correct word.

Have you got what it takes to start your own business?

How do you really make it happen? How do you

raise the ............ 61 ? Is there anywhere you can

go for help?

Chidi Ngwaba says funding a business

yourself with savings is ‘a bit like having a baby. I

feel like we’re living a dream.’

Their ............ 62 was to open a place selling

healthy fresh-cooked, vegetarian food. Neither

Chidi nor his wife, Uchenna, has any experience

of food, other than eating it. Their cash has

stretched to employing a team of people to run

their company, Plant, and they hope to have

three more outlets by the end of the year. The

Ngwabas believe they have no direct

competition. ‘I think it’s something new,’ Ms

Ngwaba says confidently. If things don’t work

out, they’ll sell their house and move in with

their parents.

The need to feel safe and the fear of ............ 63

can often stop people taking their first steps

towards starting up a business. But according to

Simon Woodroffe, founder of the restaurant

chain YO! Sushi, it is the fear of not following

your dream which moves people. It is better to

try and fail than never to have tried, he believes.

When I ask him whether now is a difficult time to

start a business, Mr Woodroffe says: ‘It’s always

the right time to ............ 64 a business.’ With

YO! Sushi now quite stable, Mr Woodroffe is

starting new ventures. YOTEL! and Body YO! are

coming soon.

Similarly motivated is Mark Blandford,

founder of online agency Sportingbet.

Sportingbet went live in October 1998, with no

customers and no turnover. Today he says: ‘We’re

a profitable dot.com.’ His expected ............ 65

this year is £927 million.

And his advice for would-be entrepreneurs?

‘Have a vision, spot a new niche and be

sufficiently convinced to go for it 100%.’ It’s not

the advice a bank would offer. A banker’s advice

would centre more on researching your idea and

on drawing up detailed business plans. You

probably need both to get started.

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