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Name __________________________________ Date ___________

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Section 1: Grammar and Lexis
Part A
Put the words in the correct order to make questions. See the example.
Example :
work for

who

do you?

Who do you work for?

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your is visit to Spain this first?

________________________________________?

get a I you can drink?

________________________________________?

in line you business what of are?

_________________________________________?

enjoying you the how conference are?

___________________________________________?

you people know here do many?

________________________________________?

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Part B
Complete sentences 612 using a word from the first box and then a word from the
second box. Use two words more than once.
speak
call

go

put

get

hold to through over

back up on

Im sorry, its a bad line. Can you _____ _____ please?

Can you _____ _____ a moment while I check?

Id like to _____ _____ Mr Karsli, please.

His lines free now. Ill _____ you _____.

10

Im not with you. Could you _____ _____ that again?

11

Could you ask him to _____ me _____ when he gets in? I have to speak to him
today.

12

Leave your message after the tone and Ill _____ _____ to you.

Part C
Underline the best alternatives (in italics) in the following conversation.
13

A: Hi Gill. I havent seen you for a long time. What do you do? / How are
you? / How are you being?

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B: Fine. And you? / Well. / How do you do?

A: Actually Im a bit nervous. Im going for an interview at Infonet next week.
You had an interview with them, didnt you?
B: Thats right.
A: How did it go?

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B: It was OK. The interview take / taken / took about two hours.

16

A: Two hours! Thats long / longer/ the longest than any interview Ive had
before.

17

B: The trickyest / trickiest / most tricky question was what I thought

my main weakness is.

18

A: Did they had offered / offered / offer you the job?

19

B: No. But the salary werent / wasnt / didnt was very good anyway.

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Section 2: Reading
The reading below describes interviews and research into peoples working lives.
Sentences 2025 are what some of the people who were interviewed said. Match the
sentences with paragraphs A, B, C or D from the reading. Write the letters on the
lines.

20

Im not as busy as I was when I first started. ___

21

I like it when colleagues call me at work sometimes its about work but
sometimes its just to chat. ___

22

I wish I could see my family more. ___

23

My phone seems to ring every five minutes. I constantly have to stop what Im
doing. ___

24

I work much harder now than I did when I first started thirty years ago. ___

25

Its because I travel for my job. Sometimes I Ieave the house at four in the
morning. ___

When Dr Rosemary Stewart asked 160 British managers to keep a diary of their

activities for a month, she discovered the average manager had only nine 30-minute
periods without interruption. Those she interviewed complained that there is just no time
to think and that its one damn thing after another.
B

Canadian professor Dr Henry Mintzberg found that half the tasks managers

perform take only nine minutes or less. Only 10% last more than an hour. Typically,
executives work very fast on several things at once, and welcome any interruption to their
schedule to stop and take a break.
C

According to a survey published in Wired magazine, US executives work 25%

longer hours than they did in the 1970s. Market researchers at Kelloggs discovered that
13% of them eat breakfast in the car. The most shocking study shows that the average
American father spends just six minutes a day talking to his kids.

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D

In a recent interview for a profile of global business leaders, famous workaholic

Bill Gates revealed that he can at last afford to slow down. There are days that I work 14
hours, he admits, but most days I dont work more than 12 hours. On weekends I rarely
work more than 8 hours.

Section 3: Listening (2630)

(Listening script 2.1, Extract 1)
Your colleague has sent you this e-mail about the conference venue in Disneyland.
The e-mail contains five errors (not including the example). Listen twice to the
extract from a business travel programme and underline the errors. See the
example.
Hi!
Here is the information about Legoland. The good news is that its only 45 minutes from
Paris. American Express and Unilever also use it so it must be OK. The convention centre
holds 2,030 people, has 95 meeting rooms and 3,000 square feet of exhibition space.
There are banqueting facilities for over a thousand families so clients can bring the kids.
They also arrange public events like golf tournaments and team-building activities.
Best regards

Section 4: Speaking (3135)

You are going to Berlin on business in a couple of weeks. You know your partner did
some business there a while ago. Telephone your partner and ask him/her
information about his/her trip using the prompts below.
- Which airline / fly with?
- Where / stay?
- What / food like?
- What / do / evening?

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Your partner or teacher will give you one mark for the following.
Did the caller
introduce him/herself?
ask about airlines?
ask about accommodation?
ask about evening entertainment?
say goodbye?
TOTAL MARKS =

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Marks
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1
1
1
1