Match the words with their meanings.
| 1) deliver | a) to make smaller in size or number |
| 2) cancel | b) act of going and coming back |
| 3) reduce | c) to take or send goods to a particular place |
| 4) return | d) (on the phone) to connect the caller to another number |
| 5) to transfer | e) to decide that something you have arranged will not happen |
Choose a pair of words from the list to complete the spaces in the two sentences. Decide which of the two words you need for each space.
| salesman/retailer sells/buys education/training | consists/divided produce/products manufactures/factory | accountant/accounts share/subsidiary |
1. There are 300 machine operators in our …………… . The company …………… children's toys.
2. The Purchasing department ……………products. Guinness …………… its beer all over Europe.
3. The ……………of staff in our company is the responsibility of the Human Resources department. Schools are responsible for children's …………… .
4. We ……………300 units per hour in our factory. Bell's Whisky is one of our most profitable ……………
5. We can't give you exact sales figures now because our …………… is on holiday. The tax inspector came last month to look at our …………… .
6. ICL is a ……………of the Japanese Fujitsu company. LVMH has a large ……………of the perfume market.
7. A …………… has a shop which sells directly to the public. A …………… is a person who sells to shops or companies.
8. Our electronics division is ……………into a number of autonomous companies. The company ……………of five operating divisions.
Complete each sentence with a word from the box.
| profit loss customers | lend shares invested | borrow owe save |
1. To buy a house you usually need to ……… money from a bank.
2. We ……… $2000 in company shares.
3. I ……… you $100. When do you want me to pay it back?
4. Banks ……… money to their……… .
5. If a company spends more than it earns, it makes a ……… .
6. If you want to ……… money, you can put it in a deposit account.
7. If you buy something for $100 and sell it for $150, you make a ……… .
8. You can buy and sell ……… on the Stock Exchange.
Complete the following dialogue at a computer company's reception by putting the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
| Paul: | How ________ you_________ (do)? My name _________ (be) Paul Robetrts. |
| Andreas: | Pleased to meet you. Mine's Andreas Schmidt. |
| Paul: | I________ (not think) we ________ (meet) before. |
| Andreas: | No, I only ________ (join) the European firm nine months ago. Before that I ________ (work) out in Bangkok. |
| Paul: | What ________ you ________ (do) out there? |
| Andreas: | I ________ (manage) recruitment and selection for the South East Asian region. But then my wife ________ (say) that she ________ (not see) Europe for many years and that she (want) to go back. |
| Paul: | And ________ you ________ (agree)? |
| Andreas: | Yes, of course. And ________ you ________ (be based) here in London? |
| Paul: | No, actually I ________ (work) in Madrid, though I ________ (live) near London for many, many years. You ________ (see) I ________ (join) the Spanish office when I ________ (start) my career. |
| Andreas: | But________ your family ________(not mind) you working away from home? |
| Paul: | Well, actually my wife ________ (do). |
| Andreas: | So what ________ (happen)? |
| Paul: | Oh, we ________ (get) divorced some time ago. |
Complete the interview. Write the Present Simple or Present Continuous form of the verb in brackets.
| A: | Excuse me, could I ask you a few questions for a travel survey? |
| B: | Yes, OK. |
| A: | Where __________1 (you, live)? |
| B: | Well, my home is in Barcelona, so I normally __________2 (live) there, but at the moment I __________3 (work) at the London branch of my Spanish bank, so right now I __________4 (live) in London. |
| A: | And __________5 (you, fly) to Spain today? |
| B: | Yes, I __________6 (go) back to Barcelona. |
| A: | So how many times __________7 (you, usually, travel) by plane in a year? |
| B: | __________8 (you, mean) for business or holidays? |
| A: | For both. |
| B: | Well, I __________9 (usually, travel) about six or seven times a year, but this year, I __________10 (travel) more than that, about fifteen times. |
| A: | OK.Thank you very much for answering the questions. |
Many of the following sentences sound unnatural because they are in the active. Rewrite them in the present simple passive, but do not mention the agent (e.g., by workers, by people).
1. Workers in China make these telephones. These telephones ____________
2. Employers pay many manual workers weekly. Many manual workers ____________
3. They keep a large amount of gold at Fort Knox. A large amount of gold ____________
4. Workers build a lot of the world's supertankers in South Korea. A lot of the world's supertankers ____________
5. Farmers grow a third of the world's cocoa in the Ivory Coast. A third of the world's cocoa
____________
6. Countries store most nuclear waste underground. Most nuclear waste ____________
7. Scientists test most new drugs extensively before they go on sale. Before they go on sale, most new drugs ____________
8. Workers print a lot of-our books in Hong Kong. A lot of our books____________
Are these words mass or count nouns? Write M (mass) or C (count).
| tourist | information | holiday |
| money | hotel | bread |
| advice | water | tomato |
| journey | luggage | fish |
| work | news | apple |
| traffic | plane | oil |