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Cambridge University Press 0521672864 - Business Benchmark: Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate Personal Study Book Norman Whitby Frontmatter More information
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for BEC and BULATS
Business
BENCHMARK
Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate Preliminary
Personal Study Book
Norman Whitby
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521672863
© Cambridge University Press 2006 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2006 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library ISBN-13 978-0-521-67286-3 Personal Study Book Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate/Preliminary ISBN-10 0-521-67286-4 Personal Study Book Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate/Preliminary ISBN-13 978-0-521-67117-0 Student’s Book BEC Preliminary Edition ISBN-10 0-521-67117-5 Student’s Book BEC Preliminary Edition ISBN-13 978-0-521-67284-9 Student’s Book BULATS Edition Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate with CD-ROM ISBN-10 0-521-67284-8 Student’s Book BULATS Edition Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate with CD-ROM ISBN-13 978-0-521-67285-6 Teacher’s Resource Book Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate/Preliminary ISBN-10 0-521-67285-6 Teacher’s Resource Book Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate/Preliminary ISBN-13 978-0-521-67287-0 Audio Cassette BEC Preliminary Edition ISBN-10 0-521-67287-2 Audio Cassette BEC Preliminary Edition ISBN-13 978-0-521-67288-7 Audio CD BEC Preliminary Edition ISBN-10 0-521-67288-0 Audio CD BEC Preliminary Edition ISBN-13 978-0-521-67657-1 Audio Cassette BULATS Edition Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate ISBN-10 0-521-67657-6 Audio Cassette BULATS Edition Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate ISBN-13 978-0-521-67658-8 Audio CD BULATS Edition Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate ISBN-10 0-521-67658-4 Audio CD BULATS Edition Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate
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Author’s note To the student This Personal Study Book provides you with two pages of extra exercises and activities for each unit of the Student’s Book. The exercises and activities are designed to reinforce what you have studied and they cover vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing. It is a good idea to do the work in each unit of the Personal Study Book after you have finished the unit in the Student’s Book. This will help you to remember things you have studied. You will need to write your answers in your notebook. Do the exercises regularly while the things you have studied in the Student’s Book are still fresh in your memory. Check your answers by looking in the key on pages 70–78. If you are not sure why an answer in the key is correct, ask your teacher to explain. When you do the writing exercises, you can compare your answer with a sample answer in the answer key. If your teacher agrees, you can give him/her your answer to correct. If you are preparing for the Cambridge ESOL BEC Preliminary exam or the BULATS Test, a number of exercises are designed to develop your exam skills. The Personal Study Book also contains a Word list. These are words and phrases from the units and recording transcripts of the Student’s Book which may be unfamiliar to you, or difficult to understand. When you find new words in the Student’s Book, always try to guess the meaning first from the context. Keep a list of new vocabulary in your notebook. In general, use the Word list to check the meanings later, not while you are doing the exercises in the Student’s Book.
Acknowledgements The author and publishers are grateful to the following for permission to produce copyright material. It has not always been possible to identify the sources of all the material used and in such cases the publishers would welcome information from the copyright owners. p.12: Diana Cambridge for adapted article ‘Foibles, Signoffs’, The Guardian, 14 June 2004. Used by permission of Diana Cambridge; p.31: Crown Publishers for the adapted text on p.127 from Talking with Confidence for the Painfully Shy. Copyright © 1997 Don Gabor. Used by permission of Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc; p.38: The Economist for graph ‘Indonesia’s employment rate’. © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London, 25 September 2004; p.40 Barry Scanes for his help with this exercise; p.44: Hasbro Inc. (http://www.hasbro.com) for adapted article ‘Parker Brothers Company History’. © 2005 Hasbro Inc. Used with permission. Illustrations on pages 14 and 38 by Tim Oliver.
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Contents Unit 1
6
Unit 7
The working day
Distribution and delivery
Vocabulary: company departments; word diagrams Grammar: present simple questions
Grammar: modals Vocabulary: telephoning
Unit 2
8
Corporate culture
10
Company history
12
The Internet Writing: advice on how to write emails; writing an email in suitable language Vocabulary: computer technology
Unit 5
Advertising and marketing
Unit 9
22
Making arrangements
14
Unit 10 Vocabulary 1: compound nouns; collocations; travel vocabulary Grammar: contrast words Vocabulary 2: guessing unknown words
Unit 11
Vocabulary: describing shapes; raw materials; phrasal verbs; need and keep + -ing
Business accommodation
16
Systems and processes Grammar 1: present simple passive Vocabulary: production processes Grammar 2: present simple active or present simple passive?
24
Transport
Describing equipment
Unit 6
20
Grammar: future forms: present continuous; going to; will Vocabulary: make and do
Grammar: past simple Writing: a personal profile
Unit 4
Unit 8
Vocabulary: a crossword; advertising; marketing Grammar: cause and effect; because, so, in order to
Reading: reading for general understanding Vocabulary: collocations; banking terms
Unit 3
18
26
Vocabulary: accommodation; collocations Writing: booking accommodation
Unit 12
28
Out of the office Grammar: comparatives and superlatives Vocabulary: collocations; conferences
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Unit 13
30
Unit 19
Developing contacts
Investments
Grammar: past simple or present perfect? Reading: networking Vocabulary: collocations
Grammar: link words Vocabulary: a crossword; investments
Unit 14
Unit 20 32
Cultural issues Grammar: describing habits and customs Vocabulary: negative prefixes; un-; in-; im-
Unit 15
34
Teamwork Vocabulary: suffixes; -able; -al; -ation; -ing; -ive; -ment Writing: checking your work; writing a reply
Unit 16
36
Entertaining clients
Grammar: who or which? Vocabulary: finance; collocations
Unit 21
46
Job applications Vocabulary: suffixes; -ity; -ness; candidates’ skills
Unit 22
48
Recruitment Grammar: first and second conditional Vocabulary: jobseeking
Unit 23
50
Vocabulary: a word square; human resources Grammar: nouns, adjectives, adverbs
38
Describing statistics
Unit 24
52
Staff facts and figures
Grammar: adjectives and adverbs Vocabulary: describing trends
Unit 18
44
Starting up
Staff development
Grammar: countable and uncountable nouns Writing: thank you letters
Unit 17
42
Grammar: reported speech Vocabulary: personalities
40
Company finances Vocabulary: profit and loss; a word square
Word list
54
Answer key
70
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Contents Unit 1
6
Unit 7
The working day
Distribution and delivery
Vocabulary: company departments; word diagrams Grammar: present simple questions
Grammar: modals Vocabulary: telephoning
Unit 2
8
Corporate culture
10
Company history
12
The Internet Writing: advice on how to write emails; writing an email in suitable language Vocabulary: computer technology
Unit 5
Advertising and marketing
Unit 9
22
Making arrangements
14
Unit 10 Vocabulary 1: compound nouns; collocations; travel vocabulary Grammar: contrast words Vocabulary 2: guessing unknown words
Unit 11
Vocabulary: describing shapes; raw materials; phrasal verbs; need and keep + -ing
Business accommodation
16
Systems and processes Grammar 1: present simple passive Vocabulary: production processes Grammar 2: present simple active or present simple passive?
24
Transport
Describing equipment
Unit 6
20
Grammar: future forms: present continuous; going to; will Vocabulary: make and do
Grammar: past simple Writing: a personal profile
Unit 4
Unit 8
Vocabulary: a crossword; advertising; marketing Grammar: cause and effect; because, so, in order to
Reading: reading for general understanding Vocabulary: collocations; banking terms
Unit 3
18
26
Vocabulary: accommodation; collocations Writing: booking accommodation
Unit 12
28
Out of the office Grammar: comparatives and superlatives Vocabulary: collocations; conferences
4 Contents
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Unit 13
30
Unit 19
Developing contacts
Investments
Grammar: past simple or present perfect? Reading: networking Vocabulary: collocations
Grammar: link words Vocabulary: a crossword; investments
Unit 14
Unit 20 32
Cultural issues Grammar: describing habits and customs Vocabulary: negative prefixes; un-; in-; im-
Unit 15
34
Teamwork Vocabulary: suffixes; -able; -al; -ation; -ing; -ive; -ment Writing: checking your work; writing a reply
Unit 16
36
Entertaining clients
Grammar: who or which? Vocabulary: finance; collocations
Unit 21
46
Job applications Vocabulary: suffixes; -ity; -ness; candidates’ skills
Unit 22
48
Recruitment Grammar: first and second conditional Vocabulary: jobseeking
Unit 23
50
Vocabulary: a word square; human resources Grammar: nouns, adjectives, adverbs
38
Describing statistics
Unit 24
52
Staff facts and figures
Grammar: adjectives and adverbs Vocabulary: describing trends
Unit 18
44
Starting up
Staff development
Grammar: countable and uncountable nouns Writing: thank you letters
Unit 17
42
Grammar: reported speech Vocabulary: personalities
40
Company finances Vocabulary: profit and loss; a word square
Word list
54
Answer key
70
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UNIT
1
The working day
Vocabulary Many students record the words that they want to learn by writing them in a list with a translation next to each one. This is not usually the best way of doing it because: • the words are not organised into topics • it does not tell you how to use the words. Words are often easier to remember if you put them into groups based on the meaning. 1 Write the words from the box next to the most suitable company department to make three word diagrams. ............................
............................
personnel ............................
............................
bookkeeping ...........................
............................
accounts ............................
............................
............................
............................
sales ............................
............................
bookkeeping consumer expenditure human resources mail order payroll recruitment retail outlet salary staff wholesale workforce
2 Can you add any more words to the diagrams? Use your dictionary if you like. Another way to group words is to take one word and record other words that can be formed from it by adding prefixes and suffixes. manager
to manage
management
(noun: the person)
(verb)
(noun: the activity)
managerial (adjective)
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3 Write the correct word from the box next to the correct definition in the word diagram below. 1 ................ the thing that a company produces
2 ................ the company or person who produces something
producer product production productivity
to produce 3 ................ the action of producing something, or the quantity produced
4 ................ a measure which compares the value of what a company produces with the time and money it spends
4 Now use your dictionary to make a similar diagram around the verb to employ.
Grammar Read the article and then write the questions for the answers (1–6) in your notebook.
AUDIENCE NUMBERS DOWN FOR RADIO HEARTBEAT Things are not looking good at Radio Heartbeat at the moment. Their new breakfast show presenter, Johnny Race, just can’t keep the listeners. He only attracts 30,000 listeners each morning whereas 45,000 people regularly listen to the rival station, Hugz. Even more worrying for Heartbeat is the success of Marie Riley’s new breakfast show over on Shire Radio. According to opinion surveys, people especially like the interviews on her show.
Heartbeat’s chief executive, David Webb, says that he is not worried by the figures. ‘We’re trying to appeal to younger listeners now,’ he says. ‘They need time to find us. Johnny’s got a great personality and I’m sure he can bring them in. We have every confidence in him.’ Unfortunately, now Heartbeat’s teatime DJ, Morgan Wells, says he is thinking of leaving the station. If he does, this will be another major blow for Radio Heartbeat.
many listeners does Johnny Race attract? 1 How ................................................................................................... 30 thousand each day. 2 The interviews. 3 No, he isn’t worried. 4 Younger listeners. 5 Because has a great personality. 6 Leaving Radio Heartbeat. UNIT 1 The working day
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