Unit 1 Progress test
Working with words Business communication
Complete the table with countries and nationalities. Match 26–30 to a–e.
26 It’s good
Country Nationality
India Indian 27 How do
Japan 1 28 Pleased to
2
Italian 29 Have a
Brazil 3 30 See you
4
Polish a meet you.
South Africa 5 b soon.
c to see you again.
Complete the two conversations with words from the list. d good journey.
team
Chief marketing
personal
human e you do, Anna?
Conversation 1
Result ___________ / 3 0 marks
A What’s your job?
B I’m the 6 director for a small online company.
What about you?
A I’m a 7 resources manager and this is Nigel.
He’s a 8 leader in our design department.
Conversation 2
A Who’s that?
B That’s Sheila McFee. She’s our 9 Executive
Officer. It’s her company and I’m her 10
assistant.
Language at work
Complete this interview with the correct form of the
verb be.
A Hello, my name 11 Ali Kishan and I
12
the Managing Director of Kishan Foods.
B Good morning, Mr Kishan. Where 13 your
company exactly?
A We 14 in the UK.
B 15
you also in other countries?
A No, we 16 . We 17 a very big company.
B And where 18
you from?
A I 19 originally from Mumbai in India, but my
home 20 now in London.
Choose the correct words in italics.
21 Our / We customers are in Asia and South America.
22 They / Their company is Polish.
23 Are you / your Spanish?
24 Where is he / his company based?
25 That’s Brigit. She’s / Her’s a colleague and a friend.
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Unit 1 Speaking test
Role cards
Copy this page and cut out the role cards for the students. Then copy and use the Speaking test results form to evaluate
each student’s performance. You can then cut out the results and give them to the students.
Note: pre-work learners can ask the name of the other learner’s school or college and give the name of their own school
or college.
cut along this line
Student A Student B
You meet someone at a conference for the first time. You meet someone at a conference for the first time.
• Say hello. • Say hello.
• Introduce yourself. • Introduce yourself.
• Say where you are from (country). • Say where you are from (country).
• Ask the other person to spell their name. • Ask the other person to spell their name.
• Ask the name of the other person’s company and say the • Ask the name of the other person’s company and say the
name of your company. name of your company.
Unit 1 Speaking test results
Use these forms to evaluate the students.
cut along this line
Yes, but Yes, did Yes, but Yes, did
Didn’t do Didn’t do
Student A with some this very Student B with some this very
this this
Can the student …? mistakes well Can the student …? mistakes well
(0 points) (0 points)
(1 point) (2 points) (1 point) (2 points)
say hello say hello
introduce him/ introduce him/
herself herself
say where he/she say where he/she
is from is from
ask the other ask the other
person to spell person to spell
his/her name and his/her name and
spell his/her own spell his/her own
name name
ask the name of ask the name of
the other person’s the other person’s
company and company and
say his/her own say his/her own
company name company name
Result / 10 marks Result / 10 marks
cut along this line
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