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    VOCABULARY

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    The document provides definitions for words that describe changes: - Down, de, up, re describe moving or making changes to location, jobs, responsibility or improving/modifying systems. - Size, regulate, structure, locate, launch, develop describe organizing, building, placing, introducing or learning in a new way. The document also provides examples of using past simple and present perfect tenses to describe events and changes that have occurred over time.

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    VOCABULARY

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    VOCABULARY: DESCRIBING CHANGE

     A: down- de- up- re-


     B: train size regulate structure locate launch grade develop centralise assess

     1
    Incorrect answer: down
    down: to move responsibility, services or jobs away from a central place to several different
    smaller places.
     2
    Incorrect answer: train
    train: to think about something again carefully in order to decide whether to change your opinion
    or judgement about it.
     3
    Incorrect answer: de
    de: to make a computer, machine, or piece of software better and able to do more things.
     4
    Incorrect answer: size
    size: to reduce the number of employees and levels of management that a company has.
     5
    Incorrect answer: regulate
    regulate: to make an area more modern by putting in new buildings or changing or repairing the
    old ones.
     6
    Incorrect answer: re
    re: to start or present a product again in a new or different way, often involving changes in
    advertising, packaging, etc.
     7
    Incorrect answer: structure
    structure: to learn new skills or to teach someone the skills needed to do a different job.
     8
    Incorrect answer: locate
    locate: to reduce the number of government controls on a particular business activity, done to
    make companies work more effectively and to increase competition.
     9
    Incorrect answer: launch
    launch: to move to a different place.
     10
    Incorrect answer: develop
    develop: to arrange or organise something in a new way.

    LANGUAGE REVIEW: PAST SIMPLE AND


    PRESENT PERFECT
    Complete the message from Prunel's CEO with the past simple or present perfect forms of
    the verbs in brackets.

    I (11)
    Incorrect answer: receive receive (receive ) our company's end-of-year results yesterday, and I
    am delighted to announce that it (12) Incorrect answer: to be
    to be (be ) an excellent year for Prunel. As you all remember, we only (13) Incorrect answer:
    start start (start ) ten years ago in a suburb of Grenoble where we (14)
    Incorrect answer: employ employ (employ ) six people, two of them part-time. Today, that
    number (15) Incorrect answer: grow grow (grow ) to over 1,500. In more than 30 countries,
    people now associate the Prunel brand name with trendy and trendsetting clothing designs. At
    the beginning of the new century, we (16) Incorrect answer: begin begin (begin ) targeting the
    Japanese and North American markets for future growth, and things (17)
    Incorrect answer: improve improve (improve ) considerably since. You will be pleased to hear
    that we (18) Incorrect answer: just just (just / acquire ) full control of our Canada-based joint
    venture. A lot of other positive changes (19) Incorrect answer: take place
    take place (take place ) recently despite signs of a global downturn. Earlier this year, our staff
    (20) Incorrect answer: expect expect (expect ) redundancies; instead, we (21) Incorrect
    answer: take on take on (take on ) fifteen new shop assistants since May. Besides, we (22)
    Incorrect answer: open open (open ) our new flagship store in Toronto three weeks ago. I know
    that our success is down to all your hard work. Congratulations to you all.

    SKILLS: MANAGING MEETINGS


    Complete the expressions. Write one word in each blank.

     23 Starting: 'OK. Let's get to business.'


     24 Setting objectives: 'The of this meeting is to map out a new marketing strategy.'
     25 Asking for reactions: 'How do you about this suggestion?'
     26 Dealing with interruptions: 'Could you let him finish,
    Incorrect answer: Dealing with interruptions
    Dealing with interruptions?'
     27
    Keeping to the point: 'Perhaps we could get
    Incorrect answer: Keeping to the point
    Keeping to the point to the point.'
     28
    Speeding up: 'I think we should move
    Incorrect answer: Speeding up
    Speeding up now.'
     29
    Slowing down: 'Hold
    Incorrect answer: Slowing down
    Slowing down, I think we should look at this in a bit more detail.'
     30
    Summarising: 'Right, let's go
    Incorrect answer: Summarising
    Summarising what we've agreed.

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