1.

- Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box below in the simple present
tense. Make any necessary changes:
WORK
START
SPECIALIZE
BE

OPERATE
HAVE

PROVIDE

A) My company___________________Internet services
B) They usually _____________________work at 8:30
C) We _________________an office in Manchester and another one in Newark
D) She ________________for an engineering company
E) Their head office ___________________in Palmeira, Spain.
F) This company__________________in phone services
G) This group _________________on all six continents
H) Our main competitors _______________in England
I) It ______________annual sales of 300 million
J) I ___________________in sales

2.- Choose the right answer:

A) What do/does they specialize in?
B) Where do/has the company start?
C) What time does she start/starts work?
E) My teacher starts usually/ usually starts his lesson at 8:10
F) What kind of products do/does your company sells/sell?
G) Who am/is/do your main competitor?

3.- All these sentences are wrong. Correct the mistakes:

A) Coca Cola are based in Atlanta
B) The meeting starts always at 16:00
C) There is 400 employs in our company
D) It don't produce software
E) Where is based that company?
F) It employ 100000 people all over the world

4.- Rewrite this dialogue in the right order:

1.- From Dublin. What do you do?

1.-

2.- I'm a sales manager. I work for a company in

Australia

2.-

3.- I'm from Barcelona. What about you?

3.-

4.- Excuse me, sir. Is this seat free?

4.-

5.- Nice to meet you. Where are you from?

5.-

6.- Yes, it is. My name is Jordi

6.-

5.- Tick the right answer:

A) Do you ............... insurance services?
provides
provide
B) Our head office is in Portugal, but we ............ in many different countries
are based
operate
specialize in
C) We are a quite small company. We only have 15 ..................
employers
employs
employees
D) What other ............ does the company make?
products
produces
E) .......... any of the employees of your company work at weekends?
Do
Does
F) What do you .......... ? I'm an engineer
work
job
do

Tim works for a company in Sacramento, California. He's a customer service representative. He gets
up six o'clock each workday. He drives to work and begins his job at eight o'clock. He speaks to people
on the telephone to help them with their banking problems. People telephone the bank to ask questions
about their accounts. He doesn't give information about accounts until people answer a few questions.
Tim asks callers their birth date, the last four digits of their social security number and their address. If
a person gives incorrect information, Tim asks him to call back with the correct information. Tim is
polite and friendly with everyone. He has lunch in a park next to his office. He returns home at five
o'clock in the evening. After work, he goes to the gym to work out. He has dinner at seven o'clock. Tim
likes watching TV after dinner. He goes to bed at eleven o'clock at night.
1) TRUE OR FALSE OR DOESNT SAY
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)

Tim never gets up before six oclock.

He takes the subway to go to work.
In his job he speaks to people.
He always gets the correct information from people he calls.
Tim is sometimes unfriendly with people.
He returns home before six o clock.
Tim enjoys watching comedies.

2) MAKE FIVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TEXT

1)_____________________________________________________________
2)_____________________________________________________________
3)_____________________________________________________________
4)_____________________________________________________________
5)_____________________________________________________________