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1. association: an organization or club

2. fluent: a) having full command of a foreign language, b) spoken or written with ease

3. get on with someone: to have a friendly relationship with them

Reading

1. queue: to stand in a line waiting for something

2. advertisement: a promotion of a product or service

3. keen: eager; willing

Vocabulary Exercise
Fill the gaps with the words above.
Individual Work
1. Mark saw  an _______ for a job with a large engineering company.
2 Becoming _________ in a foreign language is no easy task.
3. Daniel joined an athletic _________.
4. I wonder how Sam_________ her.
5. Melissa is still _________ to keep in touch with her ex-boyfriend.
6. There is a line of women in _______ for bread.

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1. property: something someone owns

2. punctual: arriving or happening at the arranged time; not late

Reading

1. forceful: powerful; effective; influential

2. underestimate: to make too low an estimate of (someone's or something's value, capacity, extent, etc,)

Vocabulary Exercise
Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. Damian is  always very __________. I'll see if he's here yet.
2. Mr Smidt was a man of ______  character, with considerable insight and diplomatic skills.
3. None of us should ever _______  the degree of difficulty women face in career advancement.
4. _______ prices have dropped through the floor.

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Dialogue

1. petroleum: oil which is found under the surface of the earth or under the sea bed

2. code: a set of rules about how people should behave or about how something must be done

3. bribe: a sum of money or something valuable that one person offers or gives to another in order to persuade him or her to do something

Reading

1. bribery: the act of offering someone money or something valuable in order to persuade them to do something for you

2. authoritative: accepted as a reliable source of knowledge

3. sleaze: activities that you consider immoral, dishonest, or not respectable, especially in politics, business, journalism, or entertainment

4. plug: to block a hole with something

5. loophole: a small mistake which allows people to do something that would otherwise be illegal

6. kickback: part of a sum of money received that is paid to someone else for help or favours already received or to come, especially if this is illegally given

7. impoverish: to make a person or a country poor

8. divert: to cause money or resources to be used for a different purpose

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. There is a strict dress_____   no sneakers or jeans.
2. Yushi is suspected of having received a 1 billion yen ________writing off the debts of Mitsubishi affiliates.
3. We need to reduce the burden of taxes that _______ the economy.
4. The government is trying to ———- more public funds
from west to east.
5. It is estimated that 60,000 shops open every Sunday and trade by exploiting some _________in the law to avoid prosecution.
6. Dina claimed that an atmosphere of ________ and corruption now surrounded the American Government.
7. Crews are working to ________ a major oil leak.
8. John Preston has a commanding presence and deep, _________ voice.
9. Mis Shizuka was jailed on charges of _________.
10. Spain's the largest distributor of________ products
11. He was being investigated for receiving
in return for receiving _________.

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Dialogue

1. headquarters: the main offices of a company

2. accountant: a person whose job is to keep financial accounts

Reading

1. market: to organize the sale of a product, by deciding on its price, where it should be sold, and how it should be advertised

2. decentralized: to move some departments away from the main administrative area, or to give more power to local departments

3. expertise: special skill or knowledge that is acquired by training, study, or practice

4. sustainable: continued at the same rate or level of activity without any problems

Vocabulary Exercise
Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. Mr Hisashi Hara is a certified public _______ at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsy, one of Japan‘s leading law firms.
2. They have _______ the company and made it less bureaucratic.
3. The creation of an efficient and _______ transport system is critical to the long-term future of London.
4. The problem is that most local authorities lack the _______ to deal sensibly in this market.
5. It's _______ under the trade name `Tattle'.
6. The Google _______ sign is seen in a Mountain View, Calif. file photo from July 21, 2005.

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1. fruition: the achievement of something that has been aimed at and worked for

2. double-digit: the numbers between 10 and 99

3. trait: an identifying feature or quality, especially one that distinguishes someone's character

4. slot in: to find time to see someone or do something between various other arrangements that have already been made

Reading

1. corporation: 1.a body of people acting jointly, eg for administration or business purposes and who are recognized by law as acting as an individual

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. The project finally came to _______.
2. The   ______ may be charged with default on its contract with the government.
3. Doctor Robert  is busy this morning, but she might be able to ______ you in around one o'clock.
4. Australia had 15 years of ________  inflation.
5. The study found that some alcoholics had clear personality _______ showing up early inchildhood.

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Dialogue

1. fitness: the condition of being physically healthy and strong.

2. medical check-up: a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the

3. age and sex and health of the person. fatty: containing fat especially in unusual amounts.

Reading

1. authority: the person or people who have power, especially political or administrative.

2. insecure: not firmly fixed; not confident or sure.

3. independence: the quality or state of being independent.

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. This provided a pretext for the   _________to cancel the elections.
2. July 4th is a public holiday celebrating America‘s ________.
3. I'm trying to improve my ________  by cycling to work.
4. Fast food has become a staple food for many Americans. Fast food is -______and unhealthy.
5. He received a ________  before starting treatment for his high blood pressure.
6. I feel ____________  in my position as there have been recent talks about our plant closing down.

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Dialogue

1. enquiry: an act or the process of asking for information

2. phase: to organize or carry out (changes, etc) in stages

3. consultation: the act or process of consulting

Reading

1. kick-start: to take a course of action that will quickly start a process going again currency: the system of money, or the coins and notes, in use in a country

2. devaluation: the reduction of a country's currency value in relation to other

3. currencies handicraft: the objects that are produced by people doing handicrafts

4. sanitation: the process of keeping places clean and healthy, especially by providing a sewage

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. Erica works part time after the university and sells ______to the tourists.
2. It will lead to ______ of a number of European currencies.
3. One day we would work to install water and _________ systems.
4. The President has chosen to _______the economy by slashing interest rates.
5. He made some ________ and discovered she had gone to the
Continent.
6. Tourism is the country's top earner of foreign__________ .
7. A personal diet plan is devised after a ___________
with a nutritionist.
8. The Health Secretary told Parliament that the reforms would be _________in over three year

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Dialogue

1. shipment: an amount of a particular kind of cargo that is sent to another country on a ship, train, airplane, or other vehicle

2. invoice: a document that lists goods that have been supplied or services that have been done, and says how much money you owe for them

3. overdraft: the state of being in debt to the bank because you have spent more money than you have in the account

Reading

1. take off: to suddenly become very successful

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. We will then send you an   _for the total course fees.
2. Food   ________ could begin in a matter of weeks.
3. It said a 1.8 trillion yen rise in household borrowing through   ________ accounts also the increase in overall consumer loans.
4. In 1944, he met Edith Piaf, and his career __________.

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Dialogue

1. dispatch: to send (mail, a person, etc.) to a place for a particular reason

2. draft: a written order for payment of money by a bank, especially from one bank to another

Reading

1. shipment: an amount of a particular kind of cargo that is sent to another country on a ship, train, airplane, or other vehicle

2. beneficiary: recipient, receiver, and payee

3. irrevocable: not able to be changed or reversed

4. correspondent: someone with whom one exchanges letters

5. specify: to give information about what is required or should happen in a certain situation

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. Israelis watch TV showing Fox News ________American Steve Centanni, at a shop in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006.
2. Adrian said the decision was __________.
3. The victory inspired Mark _________  to a gleeful telegram to Roosevelt.
4. the Browns family  _________  their wishes to an interior designer.
5. They embargoed oil ________to the US.
6. The main _______of pension equality so far have been men

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Dialogue

1.  share: the fixed units into which the total wealth of a business company is divided, ownership of which gives the right to receive a portion of the company's profits

2. launch: n. making a new product available to the public

Reading

1. corporate: relating to business corporations or to a particular business corporation

2. statistics: facts which are obtained from analysing information expressed in numbers

3. per capita amount of something: the total amount of something in a country or area divided by

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. For some months the _______price remained fairly static.
2. They have the world's largest ______income.
3. The company's spending has also risen following the______ of a new Sunday magazine.
4. This established a strong ________image.
5. Official ____________show real wages declining by 24%.

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Dialogue

1. objective: what you are trying to achieve

2. go through: to read or check a list, story, or plan from beginning to end

Reading

1. adjust: to change something so that it is more effective or appropriate

2. imprinted: firmly fixed

3. no more than: the phrase to emphasize how small a number or amount is

4. transparency: a small piece of photographic film with a frame around it which can be projected onto a screen so that you can see the picture

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. To attract investors, Panama has ______ its tax and labour law.
2. Our main ____  was the recovery of the child safe and well.
3. It'll be fine with me if you lend me your _______for my presentation. I will use  the overhead projector..
4. The skyline of domes and minarets was____ on my memory.
5. It definitively states that they will cost ______ $ 22.99
6. ______his list of customers is a massive job.

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Dialogue

1. quote: to say how much money someone would charge another one.

Reading

1. adversary: someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.

2. collaborative: done by two or more people or groups working together.

3. groundwork: the early work on something which forms the basis for further work.

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above
1. Yesterday's meeting was to lay the ____  for the task head.
2. The U.S. can make or break any _____ efforts to solve the crisis. 3. A travel agent _____ her $160 for a flight from Toronto to Vancouver.
4. His political  _______ were creating a certain amount of trouble for him.

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Dialogue

1. quote: to say how much money someone would charge another one.

Reading

1. adversary: someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.

2. collaborative: done by two or more people or groups working together.

3. groundwork: the early work on something which forms the basis for further work.

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. Yesterday's meeting was to lay the _______  for the task head.
2. The U.S. can make or break any   _____efforts to solve the crisis. 3. A travel agent _______  her $160 for a flight from Toronto to Vancouver.
4. His political ________  were creating a certain amount of trouble for him.

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Dialogue

1. recall: to order to return.

Reading

1. morale: the amount of confidence and cheerfulness that a group of people have.

2. turnover: the rate at which people leave and are replaced.

3. inspection: the noun of "inspect" meaning that to look at every part of something carefully in order to find out about it or check that it is all right.

4. redundancy: the condition of being no longer needed in a company, organization, etc.

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. The company said it must ______ one of its drugs.
2. It also called for ________of all other nuclear-power centers in the world.
3. The ministry has said it hopes to avoid compulsory __________
4. Short-term contracts increase staff _________
5. _________among the army and police force had plunged to a low as a result of poor working conditions and salaries.

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Dialogue

1. counterpart: another person or thing that has a similar function or position.

Reading

1. ahead: a) at or in the front; forwards. b) earlier in time; before.

2. at stake: (= at risk, in question) to be won or lost, depending on a particular action.

3. rely on: A. To need or depend on someone/something.

B. To trust or have faith in someone/something.

Vocabulary Exercise
Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. Summer weddings need to be arranged months ____________
2. We cannot afford to take risks when people‘s lives are _______________.
3. The industry ________________ the price of raw materials remaining low.
4. The Foreign Seceretary telephoned his Italian ________________ to protest.

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Reading

1. ponder: to think about something carefully.

2. accommodation: buildings or rooms where people live or stay. deplaning: getting off an airplane.

3. partake: to take part in an activity.

Vocabulary Exercise

Fill the gaps with the words above.

1. You will probably be asked about whether you _______________ in very vigorous sports.
2. The government will provide temporary _______________ for up to three thousand people.
3. I‘m continually _______________ how to improve the team.
4. Welcome to Fairfax Airport. We will _____________ from both the front and back of the aircraft.

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expertise ,advert , sustainable , keen

association ,decentralized, get on with

1. The company put an _________
in a local newspaper for a vacant situation.
2. The partnership amply demonstrates the company's know-how and ______ in the telecom
3. He had a  _________ impatience to leave those people.
4. They have   the company and made it less bureaucratic.
5. The _________  is composed of 250 members.
6. The creation of an efficient and transport system is critical to the long-term future of London.
7. You should the manager.

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A: 1. ( d ) How many jobs have you had since leaving university? B: I've worked for six companies.
A: Why have you changed jobs so often?
B:2.(_________ ) . A: What have you done that shows leadership?
B:3.(___________ )
.A:4.( ) . B: I'm good at training sales staff and I get along well with people.

a. What are your strengths?
b. I wanted to earn more money.
c. I lead the sales team.
d. How many jobs have you had since leaving university

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Career woman

Carly Fiorina, who has been called America's most powerful business woman, is Chief Executive
of the huge Hewlett Packard group, which manufactures computers and printers. Ms Fiorina, who has spent most of her working life in the telecommunications industry, started out as a sales representative with AT&T, where she rose rapidly through the ranks. Later she was a key player in the creation of the equipment and components company Lucent Technologies, where she was in charge of the sales and marketing of networking products. Ms Fiorina now oversees an organization which is one of the 30 leading companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Comprehension questions & speaking
1. In what industry has Ms Fiorina spent most of her working life?
2. What did she do when she started working at AT&T?
3. What did she do at Lucent Technologies
4 could you give some of your  examples about successful women in business?