Name _____________________________________ Class ____________________________ Business Skills Test 1 Answer all thirty questions. There is one mark per question. MEET BUSINESS PARTNERS 1 Read the first and last sentence in this conversation. Number the other sentences 1-8 in the correct order. Good morning. I’m Roman Bar. Nice to meet you. 1 ___ Fine thanks. 2 ___ Sorry to keep you waiting. 3 ___ No problem. 4 ___ Jurg Geyer. Nice to meet you, too. 5 ___ How long is it from Prague? 6 ___ Let’s go to my office. How was your trip? 7 ___ Here we are. Would you like a coffee? 8 ___ Only a couple of hours Thanks very much. GET THINGS DONE 2 Re-write the sentences to mean the same thing with the words given. 9 This is urgent – we must do it right away. It’s important to______________________________________________. 10 There’s no rush on this. We don’t need ________________________________________________. 11 I want us to do this by the end of December. I’d like to get this _____________________________________________. 12 Get me those figures. Would you mind ______________________________________________? 13 I need a favour from you. Would you do ________________________________________________? 14 I’d really appreciate it if you could help me for a minute. Can_________________________________________________________? MAKE A SHORT PRESENTATION PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2006 Pearson Longman ELT 1 3 Re-order these words to make phrases from a presentation. 15 of my the is presentation ‘change’ subject. ______________________________________________ 16 going I’m my to you tell about company. ______________________________________________ 17 divided I’ve into my three parts talk. ______________________________________________ 18 first you overview I’ll an give. ______________________________________________ 19 we’ll our operations look at then. ______________________________________________ 20 I’ll come last now to my point. ______________________________________________ 21 me main let summarise points the again. ______________________________________________ INFORMAL EMAILS 4 These sentences are mixed up from two different emails. Email A is more polite than Email B. Order the sentences into the correct emails below. a Thanks for all your help. b I know you’re busy but we need the feedback as soon as possible. c Please send it by the end of today. d Dear Yashushi e It would be really appreciated. f We need your feedback now. g Thanks. h Is there any way you can send it by the end of today. i Without it we can’t move the project forward. Email A 22 ___ 23 ___ 24 ___ PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2006 Pearson Longman ELT 2 25 ___ 26 ___ Email B 27 ___ 28 ___ 29 ___ 30 ___ PHOTOCOPIABLE © 2006 Pearson Longman ELT 3
