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7. Walk around the room and try to talk to each person very briefly.

- Greet the other person and introduce yourself.

- Say where you work and what your job is.

- Find out the name, company and job of the other person.

8. What do you do when someone you haven’t met before visits you in your office? In what order do you do these things? Mark your answers and then discuss your ideas with the rest of the group.

- Hand over your business card

- Shake hands with your visitor

- Greet the visitor with a formal greeting

- Introduce yourself

- Ask about their journey to your company

- Ask about your visitor’s company and work

- Invite your visitor to sit down

- Be ready to meet your visitor at the appointed time

- Say good morning or good afternoon

- Offer something to drink

- Get down to business

Grammar

Present Simple

Present Continuous

9. Complete the text about a management training scheme with verbs from the box in Present Simple or Present Continuous.

get learn offer spend want work not have not earn

Ines Garcia is a Spanish graduate in business administration and she wants to have a career in business management. At present, she (1)_______ for a large telecommunications company in Madrid. It is a one-year graduate trainee programme and she 3______ any guarantee of a job at the end of the year. The company usually 4______ jobs to only a few of the best trainees – Ines hopes to be one of these. Trainees on the programme 5______ up to six weeks working in different departments. This is usually helpful because the trainees 6______ useful work experience. A disadvantage is that trainees 7______ very much money. Ines says “It’s a hard life just now, but it’s good experience and I 8______ a lot of new things.”

10. Open the brackets.

Matt Gina, can I ________ (introduce / am introducing) Tony Lloyd, our Marketing Manager. Tony, this is Gina Tallarigo from our Rome office.

Tony Very pleased to meet you, Gina. I ________ (hear / am hearing) you had a difficult journey last night.

Gina Yes, the weather was very bad, and my plane couldn’t take off.

Tony What time does the meeting start, Matt?

Matt Ten thirty.

Tony OK, we ________ (have / are having) half an hour. Perhaps I can show Gina round the office. Would you like to have a look around, Gina?

Gina That would be great. Thank you, Tony.

Tony OK, let’s go.

11. Decide if the sentences below contain mistakes. Change the form of the verb where necessary.

1. We’re not liking the new computer system.

2. How many boxes do you need?

3. Smiths are seeming interested in our products.

4. Paul’s travelling to New York next week.

5. Is Marta preferring the second option?

12. Choose the correct form of the verbs in italics.

I. She write / writes training programmes.

2. The company doesn’t / isn’t making a profit.

3. They are having / have a meeting.

4. We don’t finishing / finish work at 6pm.

5. That printer doesn’t / isn't work.

6. Are / Do you often visit head office?

7. What time is / does Geoff arriving?

8. I’m not / I don’t understand the problem.

13a. Decide if uses (1 - 8) are usually associated with Present Simple (PS) or Present Continuous (PC)

1. facts and permanent situations PS

2. action and events in progress now

3. arrangements for the future

4. verbs of thinking and feeling

5. habits and routines

6. temporary situations

7. fixed timetable

8. current trends and changes