IN EACH OF 8 SENTENCES THERE IS ONE MISTAKE IN EACH OF 8 SENTENCES THERE IS ONE MISTAKE. IDENTIFY THE MISTAKE AND WRITE THE CORRECT WORD(S) IN THE SPACE PROVIDED: What is corporate culture? At its most basic, its described as the personality of an organization, or simply as “how things are done around here.”_______ 2. It guides how employees think, acting, and feel. _________ 3. Corporate culture is a broad term using to define the unique personality or character of a particular company or organisation. _____________ 4. It includes such elements as core values and beliefs, corporate ethic, and rules of behaviour. ____________ it’s act used ethics

5. The organisation’s culture will affect on you in many ways, such as e.g. hours worked per day and per week. __________ 6. The culture of a company is connected to the characteristics find in the surrounding society. _____________ 7. But, it also has some traits, such as a hierarchy system, that is unique. __________ 8. It can be negative, neutral, or positive, and although some business like to portray corporate culture as static, in most cases, it changes over time. ______________ on found are businesses

MAKE THESE SENTENCES PASSIVE: A new stadium ____________ currently (BUILD) near the station. 2. Why the new ad agency ____________ (CHOOSE) yet? A new stadium is currently being built near the station. Why hasn’t the new ad agency been chosen yet?

Insert the suitable forms of the words to form a collocation If a pesticide producer decided to buy one of its suppliers and one of its distributors it is called ____________ integration. The company has been accused of ____________ the contract of sale (= fail to do what is required by a contract; break a contract). VERTICAL BREACHING

What are these called? making repayments on a debt merger involving only the exchange of company shares a tariff that varies, depending on the value of the goods debt service stock swap ad valorem tariff Fill in the blanks: hit the ________ _______ the tiles a _______ in the door roof on foot

I hope they don’t go strike. We’re dependent them our supplies. INSERT THE FOUR MISSING PREPOSITIONS WHERE THEY BELONG: I hope they don’t go strike. We’re dependent them our supplies. Is the factory insured fire? (UP)ON ON FOR AGAINST *this exercise belongs to the written exam

IN EACH SENTENCE 1-8 THERE IS ONE MISTAKE IN EACH SENTENCE 1-8 THERE IS ONE MISTAKE. UNDERLINE THE MISTAKE AND WRITE THE CORRECT WORD(S) IN THE SPACE PROVIDED: 1. The EU’s Second Banking Co-ordination Directive, also known as the Money Laundering Directive, was issuing in 1991. _________ 2. It required member states to establish similar regulations for preventing, identify and reporting money laundering activities. ______________ 3. Money laundering is the process in which criminals attempt to hiding the true origins of their money, so that the money appears to come from a legitimate source. ___________ issued identifying hide

4. In other words, “dirty” money was turned into clean money. ____ 5. Banks and other institutions are required to set up and operate procedures to combat in money laundering. _________ 6. They have to identify that dealings which could possibly be part of a money laundering operation. ____________ 7. They also have to report its suspicions to the government’s Criminal Investigations Division. __________ 8. The amount of money laundered each year is in the billions (US dollars) and pose a significant policy concern for the governments. ___________ is in the/those their poses

MAKE THESE SENTENCES PASSIVE: As I drove south, I could see that the old road ____________ (REBUILD). 2. By this time tomorrow the deal ____________ (SIGN). As I drove south, I could see that the old road was rebuilt/was being rebuilt. By this time tomorrow the deal will have been signed.

Insert the suitable forms of the words to form a collocation WAS VOIDED Mr Smith’s real estate purchase contract _____________ (= state officially that sth is no longer valid). Many conglomerates have ____________ their non-core businesses that make the most money for them. DIVESTED

to remove, take out from a group those that are not good enough Write down the idiomatic expressions to match the following definitions: to remove, take out from a group those that are not good enough confused and not certain what to do to deliberately start or create to weed out all at sea sow the seeds What are these called: the day when a bond has to be repaid ________ the amount of capital making up a loan ________ two companies that have no common business areas ________________ maturity day principal conglomeration

INSERT THE FOUR MISSING PREPOSITIONS WHERE THEY BELONG: The error was due circumstances our control. Thank you your interest our proposal. TO BEYOND FOR IN *this exercise belongs to the written exam

Although no business or industry can have been untouched by IN EACH SENTENCE 1-8 THERE IS ONE MISTAKE. UNDERLINE THE MISTAKE AND WRITE THE CORRECT WORD(S) IN THE SPACE PROVIDED: Personnel managers and directors have to change their ideas on how to handle redundancy as their firms are forcing into losing more and more staff. __________ In a past UK survey, personnel practitioners were asked whether they had made changes to the criteria used when selecting people to be lay off. _________ Although no business or industry can have been untouched by the recession, only eight per cent of the practitioners said that they had done any changes. ___________ forced laid made

4. In the past, offering redundancy with a retirement package is always the preferred option. _________ 5. Now young workers are being targeting. __________ 6. More flexible staff is being retained. ________ 7. However, many large companies are employed fewer and fewer staff. ______________ 8. Most of the jobs currently being creating are in small and medium sized companies. ____________ was targeted are employing created

MAKE THESE SENTENCES PASSIVE: 1. Newspapers in some countries _____________ (SELL) in kiosks as well as shops. 2. The news already ______________ (ANNOUNCE) by the time we got there. Newspapers in some countries are sold in kiosks as well as shops. The news had already been announced by the time we got there.

Insert the suitable forms of the words to form a collocation TO DRAFT I’ll ask our HR Department _____________ a contract (= write the first rough version of a document). WTO is a place for ______________ trade disputes. SETTLING

What are these called? a tariff with two parts, one that depends on the value of the goods and one that is a fixed amount bonds issued by the British government stocks in a Chinese company that are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange the total value of all shares on a stock market at a particular time compound tariff gilt-edged stock/gilts red-chip stocks market capitalization

Behalf my colleagues, I would like to thank you. INSERT THE FOUR MISSING PREPOSITIONS WHERE THEY BELONG: Behalf my colleagues, I would like to thank you. Our house has been the market months. ON OF ON FOR *this exercise belongs to the written exam

RECAP Business idioms (the first 6 units) Business metaphors (the first 6 units) Collocations, word combinations (the first 6 units) Definitions of terms (the first 6 units) Editing sentences Passive