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Have you got a job in a company? If so, answer these questions as quickly as you can.

  1. What does your job involve?

  2. Are you responsible for anything or anyone?

  3. Have you had much training from your company?

  4. Have the company sent you on any training courses?

  5. Have you been promoted since you started in the company?

  6. Do you normally get a good pay rise at the end of each year?

  7. How do you feel about your future prospects in the company?

  8. Are you happy in the job or do you feel it is time for a fresh challenge in another company?

COLLOCATIONS - BUSINESS

Complete the sentences using the following words:

Verbs: do get down to give go into go out of set up in

Adjectives: big core

Nouns: card class cycle ethics hours leaders partners plan school trip

  1. English language teaching is ……………….. business in this town. Thousands of students come here every year.

  2. There’s such a lot of bureaucracy, so many regulations, so much red tape, it’s almost impossible to ………………………… business there.

  3. I travel business ……………… because it’s comfortable, and I arrive relaxed and ready to …………….. business straight away.

  4. Look, I told you, we have to invite him for dinner because I think he’s going to …………….. me a lot f business.

  5. She has such good ideas she really ought to …………….. business.

  6. She’s over in Hong Kong looking for new business …………….. .

  7. That’s the last time I go on a business …………….. to Canada in January: I waited two days in the airport for the snow to stop.

  8. The bank refused to lend me any money because they weren’t convinced by the business ……………….. I showed them.

  9. The opposition spokesman claimed that the government had clearly lost the confidence of business …………….. .

  10. He …………….. business just three days after leaving business …………….. .

  11. The trouble with this job is that I deal with Japanese and Latin American customers who phone me at home at night, because they’re in bed during our business …………….. .

  12. Wait a second, let me give you my e=mail address; I don’t think it’s on my business …………….. .

  13. We’re going to divest the subsidiaries we bought in the 1980s and concentrate on our …………….. business.

  14. Well, if there isn’t an upturn in the business …………….. soon, about a quarter of the firms in this town are going to …………….. business.

  15. We seem to have different conceptions of business …………….. . I’m talking about our responsibilities to our employees; you’re talking about maximizing profits.

Translate the collocations into Russian.

GRAMMAR

  1. Choose the most suitable form in the sentences.

  1. I suddenly remembered that I forgot/had forgotten my keys.

  2. While Diana watched/was watching her favourite TV programme, there was a power-cut.

  3. Tom used to live/would live in the house at the end of the street. Who was driving/drove the car at the time of the accident?

  4. By the time Sheila got back, Chris went/had gone.

  5. David ate/had eaten Japanese food before, so he knew what to order.

  6. I did/was doing some shopping yesterday, when I saw that Dutch friend of yours.

  7. I used to like/was liking sweets much more than I do now.

  8. What exactly were you doing/did you do when I came into your office yesterday?

  9. Laura missed the party because no-one was telling/had told her about it.

  10. Tanya would/used to be a doctor.

  11. Who was driving/drove the car at the time of the accident?

  1. Put the verb in brackets into a suitable past form.

  1. While I (try) ……………… to get my car started, a passing car (stop) ……………….. and the driver (offer) ……………….. to help me.

  2. The police (pay) …………….. no attention to Claire’s complaint because she (phone) ……………….. them so many times before.

  3. Mary (not wear) ……………….. her glasses at the time, so she (not notice) …………….. what kind of car the man (drive) ……………….. .

  4. Nick (lie) ………………..down on the grass for a while , next to some tourists who (feed) ……………….. the ducks.

  5. Tony (admit) ……………….. that he (hit) ……………… the other car, but said that he (not damage) ……………….. it.

  6. Sorry I (not listen) ………………. To you. I (think) ………………. About something else.

  7. Helen (feel) ……………….. very tired, and when she (finish) ………………. Her work, she (fall) ……………….. asleep.

  8. The police (get) ……………… to Claire’s house as fast as they could, but the burglars (disappear) ……………….. .

  9. I (phone) ………………. You last night but you (not answer) ………………. . What you (do) …………….. ?

  10. We (not go) ……………….. out yesterday because it (rain) ………………. .

  1. Put the verbs in brackets into a suitable past verb form.

When Professor Mallory, the famous archaeologist, ……………….. (invite) me to take part in his expedition to find the Lost City of the Himalayas, I ……………….. (not hesitate) to accept his invitation. Mallory ………………… (discover) an ancient map showing the position of the City, although no European ……………….. (ever go) to the area before. In fact, most of Mallory’s colleagues either ……………. (believe) that the City …………….. (never exist) or …………….. (feel) that it ……………….. (vanish) long ago and ……………….. (become) simply a legend. According to the Professor, the builders of the City …………….. (hide) it among the mountains in order to protect its immense riches. He ……………… (believe) that the descendants of these ancient people …………….. (still keep) themselves apart from the rest of mankind for the very same reasons. So when we ……………….. (set off) on a cool May morning towards the distant mountains, each of us ……………. (look forward) to exciting discoveries. For a week or more we ……………… (climb) higher and higher, following the map, which Mallory ……………… (study) from time to time. Then one afternoon, while we …………….. (rest) at the top of a valley, we ………………(notice) that a rider on a horse …………….. (wave) at

us from the other side of the valley. A rider whose clothes …………….. (shine) like gold!