- •Передмова
- •Company structure
- •Vocabulary exercises and activities
- •Talking points Describing your department
- •Describing the activity of a department
- •Describing the staffing of the department
- •Describing the equipment/ premises of a department
- •Grammar Practice Present Simple – Present Continuous – State verbs – Linking Words/Phrases Relative Pronouns – Relative Adverbs – Position of Prepositions in Relative Clauses – Adverbs of Frequency
- •1. A) Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of present simple or present continuous.
- •2. Underline the correct form of the verb.
- •3. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of present simple or present continuous.
- •4. Underline the correct linking words/phrases.
- •5. Join the sentences using who, which or whose, as in the example.
- •6. Put the adverbs of frequency in the correct position.
- •Test yourself
- •1. Choose the correct item.
- •2. Cross out the unnecessary word.
- •Forms of business in the united kingdom
- •Grammar Practice Past Simple – Past Continuous – Present Perfect Simple – Have gone (to) – Have been (to) – Present Perfect Continuous – The Definite Article – Clauses of Result
- •1. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of the past simple.
- •2. Underline the correct form of the verb.
- •3. A policeman asking a witness about an accident he saw. Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous.
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into present perfect simple.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with have/has gone or have/has been.
- •6. Fill in the gaps with the present perfect continuous form of the verbs in the list below. Talk wait work ride
- •7. Underline the correct word(s).
- •8. Fill in the gaps with so, such or such a(n).
- •Test yourself
- •9. Cross out the unnecessary word.
- •Management styles
- •Diagram: Different forms of management styles
- •What type of manager are you?
- •Grammar Practice Used to – Linking Words – Past Perfect Simple – Past Perfect Continuous – Must/Mustn’t/Needn’t – Comparative/Superlative forms
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect or past simple, then say which action happened first.
- •5. Put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect or the past perfect continuous.
- •7. Tick the correct sentence.
- •8. Put the adjectives into the comparative or superlative form.
- •Test yourself
- •1. Choose the correct item.
- •2. Complete each sentence with two to five words, including the word in bold.
- •Meeting a business partner
- •Greetings
- •Leavetaking
- •Closing phrases
- •Illustrative Dialogues
- •Semi-formal, informal
- •Grammar Practice Time Clauses – Future Simple – Be going to – Present Continuous – Time Conjunctions – Type 1 Conditionals – Future Continuous – Future Perfect – Linking Words/Phrases
- •2. Underline the correct word(s).
- •3. Put a tick next to the sentences which are correct (ν)and cross out (χ)the unnecessary word in the sentences that are incorrect.
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
- •5. Put the verbs in brackets into the future simple or the future continuous.
- •7. Put the verbs in brackets into the future simple, the future continuous or the future perfect.
- •8. Choose the correct linking words/phrases in bold to join the sentences below.
- •9. Put the verbs in brackets into the future simple or the be going to form.
- •Test yourself
- •1. Choose the correct item.
- •2. Write questions to which the words in bold are the answers.
- •Small talk
- •Small Talk: Conversation Starters
- •Small Talk Practice : At the Office
- •Small talk quiz
- •Talking point
- •Grammar Practice Reported Speech – Say/tell – Reported Statements – Reported questions – Reported Commands/Requests/Instructions – Introductory Verbs – Indirect Questions
- •Rewrite the sentences in reported speech.
- •3. Turn the following questions from direct into reported speech.
- •4. Turn the questions from direct speech into reported speech. (At the shop)
- •5. Complete each sentence with two to five words, including the word in bold.
- •6. Complete the following indirect questions.
- •7. Fill in the gaps with introductory verbs in the list in the correct form. Order invite admit threaten deny beg offer command complain
- •8. Turn the following sentences into reported speech.
- •Test yourself
- •Business trip
- •How you scored:
- •Grammar Practice The Passive – Changing from Active to Passive – Questions in Passive – As – Like
- •1. Choose the correct answers (Active or Passive).
- •2. Put the verbs in brackets into a suitable passive tense.
- •3. Choose the best way of continuing after each sentence.
- •5. Rewrite the following in the passive.
- •8. Fill in the gaps with as or like.
- •Telephoning
- •Incoming Calls:
- •Telephone - connecting quiz
- •Telephone - wrong number quiz
- •Telephone - appointments quiz
- •Comprehension сheck and vocabulary exercises
- •Grammar Practice The Modals
- •2. Permission: can, could, may, might, be allowed to. There are mistakes in some of these sentences. Find the mistakes and correct them.
- •3. Obligation and necessity . Re-write the sentences using the words in brackets.
- •4. Complete each sentence using the most suitable word in the box. Must have to have to had to having to have to
- •5. Needn't have and didn't need to. There are mistakes in some of these sentences. Find the mistakes and correct them.
- •6. Obligation and advice. Choose the most suitable answer — а, в or с
- •7. Possibility: may, might, could. Re-write each sentence making it unsure. Use the words in brackets.
- •8. Possibility: can. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Use can or may.
- •9. Probability: should, ought to. Re-write each sentence making it probable. Use the word in brackets.
- •10. Deduction: must, can't. Complete the sentences. Use must or can't and the correct form of the verb in brackets.
- •11. Requests, offers and suggestions. Write what you could say in these situations using the words in brackets.
- •Test yourself
- •1. Review of possibility, probability and deduction. Choose the correct answer(а, в or c).
- •2. Review of permission and obligation. Choose the most suitable answer (а, в or с)
- •Texts for reading
- •1. The Spirit of an Organization
- •In his service
- •2. Ten Effective Job Search Strategies
- •3. Multitasking.
- •4. International Business
- •5. We Europeans
- •6. Internet
- •Appendix 1
- •Irregular Verbs List
- •Verb to be
Appendix 1
Irregular Verbs List
This is a list of some irregular verbs in English. Of course, there are many others, but these are the more common irregular verbs.
V1 Base Form |
V2 Past Simple |
V3 Past Participle |
V1 Base Form |
V2 Past Simple |
V3 Past Participle |
awake |
awoke |
awoken |
keep |
kept |
kept |
be |
was, were |
been |
know |
knew |
known |
become |
became |
become |
lay |
laid |
laid |
begin |
began |
begun |
lead |
led |
led |
bet |
bet |
bet |
learn |
learned/learnt |
learned/learnt |
bite |
bit |
bitten |
leave |
left |
left |
blow |
blew |
blown |
lend |
lent |
lent |
break |
broke |
broken |
let |
let |
let |
bring |
brought |
brought |
lie |
lay |
lain |
broadcast |
broadcast |
broadcast |
lose |
lost |
lost |
build |
built |
built |
make |
made |
made |
burn |
burnt |
burnt |
mean |
meant |
meant |
buy |
bought |
bought |
meet |
met |
met |
catch |
caught |
caught |
pay |
paid |
paid |
choose |
chose |
chosen |
put |
put |
put |
come |
came |
come |
read |
read |
read |
cost |
cost |
cost |
ride |
rode |
ridden |
cut |
cut |
cut |
ring |
rang |
rung |
dig |
dug |
dug |
rise |
rose |
risen |
do |
did |
done |
run |
ran |
run |
draw |
drew |
drawn |
say |
said |
said |
drive |
drove |
driven |
see |
saw |
seen |
drink |
drank |
drunk |
sell |
sold |
sold |
eat |
ate |
eaten |
send |
sent |
sent |
fall |
fell |
fallen |
shut |
shut |
shut |
feel |
felt |
felt |
sing |
sang |
sung |
fight |
fought |
fought |
sit |
sat |
sat |
find |
found |
found |
sleep |
slept |
slept |
fly |
flew |
flown |
speak |
spoke |
spoken |
forget |
forgot |
forgotten |
spend |
spent |
spent |
forgive |
forgave |
forgiven |
stand |
stood |
stood |
freeze |
froze |
frozen |
swim |
swam |
swum |
get |
got |
gotten |
take |
took |
taken |
give |
gave |
given |
teach |
taught |
taught |
go |
went |
gone |
tear |
tore |
torn |
grow |
grew |
grown |
tell |
told |
told |
hang |
hung |
hung |
think |
thought |
thought |
have |
had |
had |
throw |
threw |
thrown |
hear |
heard |
heard |
understand |
understood |
understood |
hide |
hid |
hidden |
wake |
woke |
woken |
hit |
hit |
hit |
wear |
wore |
worn |
hold |
held |
held |
win |
won |
won |
hurt |
hurt |
hurt |
write |
wrote |
written |