Progress test 1

Listening

1. A sales manager introduces her team to a visitor. Listen and match the

names with the jobs.

Names Jobs1. Janine Parks a. department secretary2. Fiona Quigley b. conference organizer3. Ben Thomas c. sales manager4. Wayne Carr d. sales representative5. Zoe James e. customer services manager6. Gina Scott f. sales representative

2. Listen again. Are these statements true or false?

1. Fiona Quigley is responsible for sales in the north.2. Ben Thomas is in charge of the sales department.3. Zoe James is in charge of customer services. 4. Wayne Carr is responsible for communications. 5. Gina Scott is responsible for organizing sales conferences.

3. What do Ben (B), Wayne (W) and Zoe (Z) do in their jobs. Choose from the

following.

Activity Name1. answer the telephone …2. answer questions …3. arrange meetings …4. deal with problems …5. travel …6. take messages …7. visit customers …8. work in the office …

Vocabulary & Grammar

4. Match each question with a reply.

1. Who do you sell to? a. An electronics company called Eurotron.

2. What do you do? b. How do you do?3. What does your company do exactly? c. We sell mainly to domestic

companies.

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4. How many hours do you work a week?

d. I work on average thirty-five hours a week.

5. How do you do? e. I'm a computer engineer.6. How many people does your company employ?

f. My job involves liaising carefully with our production people to plan our production schedules.

7. My wife is not very well. g. I’m sorry to hear that.8. Who do you work for? h. I report to our shift supervisor.9. How’s business? i. We design jet engines.10. What does your job involve? j. Fine.11. Who do you report to? k. We have over 1 000 employees

worldwide.

5. Complete the conversation with the words in the box.And you / do / company / isn’t / manager / I’m / Australian / Pleased / with /

American

Claudine: Hi. (1) …. Claudine Harris.Vincent: Hello. (2) … to meet you, Claudine. I’m Vincent Hardy. Claudine: What (3) … are you with, Vincent?Vincent: I’m with MPG Finance. (4) ……?Claudine: I’m (5) …. VPN industries.Vincent: What do you (6) …?Claudine: I’m a sales (7) … . And you?Vincent: I’m an accountant. Is VNP an (8) … company?Claudine: No, it (9) … . It’s (10) … . I work in the Sydney office.

6. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in the box.

have (x2) / start (x2) / work(x2) / drive(x2) / meet / live

I … (1) in a house with two people, Andrea and Rob. We … (2) for the same company, but in different departments. Andrea is a design manager, and Rob … (3) in HR. Andrea usually … (4) to work because she … (5) her job at 8:00am. Rob and I … (6) work at 9:30am, so we often travel by train. On Friday, we all start at 9:00 am and we … (7) to the office together. Rob often goes out and … (8) lunch in a restaurant, but Andrea and I usually … (9) lunch at our desk because we’re busy. On Thursday, we … (10) colleagues from other departments after work.

7. Make these sentences negative.

1. Ulla works in Lisbon.2. The company has 200 employees.

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3. We make computers.4. Alice and Cheung sell mobile phones. 5. Kyle organizes conferences.

Reading

8. Read the text below and complete the table.

Which person or people … Sara Benjamin Heidi1. work(s) on problems of communications?2. work(s) with people outside the company?3. work(s) with products?4. work(s) with companies, but not for a company?

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Writing

9. Alex Wilson has a business contacts magazine. Write an email to Alex with

information about you, your job, responsibilities and activities. Use the

information on the business cards to introduce yourself.

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