BUSINESS VOCABULARY

UNIT 2
I. Circle the odd one out.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

CEO
post
local
board member
accountant
white-collar worker
secretary
advertising

PA
place
premises
manager
systems analyst
office worker
personal assistant
public relations

CIO
job
headquarters
client
auditor
administrative officer
company secretary
human resources

IT
role
regional office
director
financial director
shop-floor worker
administrative assistant
marketing

II. a. Complete the text with the words in the box

budgets
deadlines
launch
performance
projects
targets
team leaders
teams

In my company, nearly all work is done in (1) , and all our managers
are (2) I found this quite easy to adapt to, because at Business
School, we worked a lot together on (3) and this got me used to
working towards goals or (4) and meeting (5) I
work in Research and Development of new products, and we get real satisfaction
from taking new products through from the original idea to the (6)
perhaps one or two years later. Im a Financial Manager, so a lot of my work involves
ensuring high (7) in our projects while they keep within their
(8) - and that involves strict cost control.

b. Use some of the words to write a paragraph about yourself or your organisation. This
will help you to personalise and remember them.
Compound nouns (e.g. Human Resources Manager, Team leaders etc.) are very common in
Business English. Compound nouns have two or more elements. The first element is made of a
noun (e.g. Team Leader) or a verb (e.g. working day). The second element is a noun.

III. How many compound nouns can you make by combining a word from box A
with one from box B? In some cases, more than one combination is

A
Finance
Job
Team
Product
Advertising
Office
Sales
Work

B
Budget
Development
Forecast
Manager
Satisfaction
Work
Place
Worker

IV. Complete the following table.

Verb
1
Develop
Supervise
Manage
Introduce
Recruit
11

Noun
satisfaction
3
5
6
8
10
12

Adjective
2
4
7
9
challenging
1

V. Complete these questions with the question words/phrases in the box. You will
not need all the words/phrases
how
how long
how many
how much
how often
what
when
where
which
who
why

1. is your boss? Ms Jones?

2. have you worked for this company?
3. office would you prefer to work in: company headquarters
or a regional office?
4. did you go to school - in this country or abroad?
5. does your HR department carry out formal appraisals every six months, or more often?
6. job would you like to be doing in tenyears time?
7. people work in your office?
8. does your boss earn

VI. Put the words into the correct order to form questions.
1. enjoy job do about What your most you?
2. your there about you job anything Is dislike?
3. How discipline you to often workers have do?
4. many are your people there How store in?
5. work of line this into get you did How?
6. What think years you time you in will be do doing ten?

VII.

Each of these questions has a mistake. Correct them!

1. How long you have worked for this company?

2. When you left school?
3. How much are you earn in your present job?
4. If we give you the job, when you can to start?
5. What studied you at university?
6. How long you expect to stay with us?
7. Are you need to speak English in your present job?
8. What you find most challenging in your job?