Self-Evaluation Tests 1:

1. Find the best answer: Do you often read the 'situations vacant' ads?
a)
b)
c)

Sure. I never fail to. I want to stay informed.

No way. I'm not at all happy with it.
I'm only staying until I find something better.
2. Find the best answer: What do you think of your line supervisor?
a) Yes. I'm going down the pub.
b) It's OK. I'm not enjoying my present project very much.
c) Usually she and I get on fine but we're having a few problems at the
moment.

3. Find the best answer: Do you earn enough as an accountant?

a) Yes. I'm going down the pub.
b) Sure. I never fail to. I want to stay informed.
c) No way. I'm not at all happy with it.

4. Find the best answer: How long do you intend to stay in your factory job?
a)
b)
c)

Yes. I'm going down the pub.

I'm only staying until I find something better.
Sure. I never fail to. I want to stay informed.

5. Find the best answer: Do you want to stop now?

a)
b)
c)

Yes. I'm going down the pub.

It depends on what I'm doing that day. Usually about 7.30.
Sure. I never fail to. I want to stay informed.

Key: 1. a, 2. c; 3. c, 4. b; 5. a.

Self-Evaluation Tests 2:

Extra word exercise 1

Read the extract from a business book.
In most of the lines 1 - 12, there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in
with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct. Write the extra word in the margin, or
write correct. ( - the first two lines are examples)

Managing Your Business Finances

eg. If you want to succeed in the business, you need to know about financial

the

eg. management. No matter how skilled you are at developing a new product,

correct

1 providing with a service, or marketing your wares, the money you earn will

2 slip between your fingers if you do not know how to collect it, keep on track

3 of it, save it and spend or invest it wisely. A poor financial management

...

4 is one of the main reasons why businesses fail. In many cases, failure

...

5 could have been avoided against if the owners had applied sound financial

..

6 principles to all their dealings and decisions. So what is the most best way of

7 making sure that you are handling after your money correctly? The truth of

8 course is that you must have to pay a professional to do it for you. This

9 should be looked at as another investment: you have to spend money in the

10 short term to save money in the long term, However, you are then faced

11 with a new other problem: how do you find the best consultant for your

12 business and make sure of you are getting value for money? The short
answer is that only time will tell.

Extra word exercise 2

Read the extract from a business book.
In most of the lines 1 - 12, there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in
with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct. Write the extra word in the margin, or
write correct. ( - the first two lines are examples)

Managing Your Business

eg. Many organisations are seeking to take advantage of flatter management

correct

eg. structures by moving through to self-managed teams. In our experience. These

through

1 teams produce us very impressive results. However, as the companies

..

2 we work with can tell it you, they are neither a soft option nor a quick fix.

...

3 Self-managed teams operate in dramatically different ways from the other

4 teams and they can only succeed if the organisational culture, along with a

5 number of systems and procedures, are been re-shaped. Thus, changing to

6 self-managed teams requires not only most top level support but a clear

7 understanding of the concept which at all levels. Often staff who find themselves

8 at the lower levels of a traditional structure imagine that operating in self-

9 managed teams simply means that they will be free to do what they are want

..

10 without having to obey the orders of upper management and this simply is

..

11 not the case. One of the most important areas we address with our clients

...

12 is the need to re-educate staff with a regard to the practical meaning of the

word team, Such re-education is required from shop floor to board level.

Extra word exercise 3

Read this extract from a business management book.

In most of the lines 1 - 12, there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in
with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct. Write the extra word in the margin, or
write correct. ( - the first two lines are examples)

eg From the outside looking in, it has may seem that what we offer our clients is has
eg nothing more than a simple delivery service. However, actually delivering the load

correct

1 is just the one small part of our operation. Our team includes a comprehensive

2 and efficient administration service which is also been essential for operating at the

..

3 high standards demanded by todays customers. Our centrally controlled group ..

4 administration department is a channel for all of information about each and

5 every delivery. This department is a responsible for providing our customers with

..

6 a wide range of services and information, which will involves processing customs

..

7 and proof of delivery documents, providing full pallet control and delivery updates

8 via our unique tracking system. Customers can also be access this information .
9 independently by using our new website. Security and an absolute confidentiality

10 are ensured by the use of individual PIN numbers which we have assign to each

11 load when we accept it. Links with our partners throughout worldwide mean that

..

12 every customer is able to follow the progress of their goods all the way from

Argentina to Zimbabwe!

Extra word exercise 4

Read this newspaper bulletin about a joint venture.
In most of the lines 1 - 12, there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in
with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct. Write the extra word in the margin, or
write correct. ( - the first two lines are examples)

Roysten plans US joint venture

eg. Roysten, the engineering group, it plans to launch a US joint venture with

it

eg. HarvestTate to set up a factory to make up to 1,000 buses a year. The

correct

1 agreement is one the first product of the strategic alliance with HarvestTate

2 that Roysten announced the last May. Roystens joint venture partner will be

3 Freerider, a HarvestTate subsidiary and leading manufacturer of school buses. .

4 The two parties are aiming to ease out or buy a factory capable of producing

5 1,000 buses a year, which selling at $ 50,000 each. Until now the U.S. school

6 bus market has been being dominated by the reassuring shape of John Lloyds .
7 yellow buses which have been made familiar to many all over the world

8 through an appearances in countless Hollywood films and American TV

9 series. This situation looks set to be change, however, with Roysten and

10 HarvestTate promising that a revolutionary new design with a number of

..

11 inbuilt safety features which are sure to find appeal to the nations parents

..

12 regardless of cost. The market seemed to approve the move, with Roystens
shares closing up 22p at 246p.

Key:
Extra word n. 1
1 with
2 on
3 a
4 correct
5 against
6 most
7 after
8 must
9 correct
10 correct
11 other
12 of
Extra word n. 2
1 us
2 it
3 the
4 correct
5 been
6 most
7 which
8 correct
9 are
10 be
11 correct
12 a
Extra word n. 3
1 the
2 been
3 correct
4 of
5 a
6 will
7 correct
8 be
9 an
10 have
11 throughout
12 correct
Extra word n. 4
1 one

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3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

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Self-Evaluation Tests Learning Unit 4

1. Which sentence is the best continuation of the first sentence?
We're in financial trouble but you're always going out spending money.
a) What on earth do you and your friends find to talk about?
b) Unless you stop doing that, we'll soon go broke.
c) I wish he would go and bother somebody else.
2. Which sentence is the best continuation of the first sentence?
This car is always breaking down.
a) She'll get the sack soon.
b) I think I'll have to trade it in for a newer one.
c) Doesn't she know how much other work we've got to do?
3. Which sentence is the best continuation of the first sentence?
It's always raining here!
a) I'm fed up of being wet all the time.
b) I don't think we should let it in the house any more.
c) You should save some for the rest of us.
4. Which sentence is the best continuation of the first sentence?
Mary is always arriving late for work.
a) She'll get the sack soon.
b) It seems really unhappy. He should look after it a bit more and take it for
walks.
c) You cannot believe a word she says.
5. Which sentence is the best continuation of the first sentence?
This flight is always arriving late.
a) You cannot believe a word she says.
b) In future I'm going to get the earlier one.
c) But I think she looks great. Any thinner and she'd be too thin.

Key:
1. b; 2. b; 3. a; 4. a; 5. b.