Business English. Money. Entry Test

Read the texts and match them to the types of business. A Oriental Land Company manages and develops theme parks. The company also has retail businesses and manages entertainment and leisure facilities. The company primarily operates in Japan. It is headquartered in Chiba, Japan, and employs 2,193 people. B Heineken brews and sells more than 170 beers, including Heineken, Amstel, Cruzcampo, Tiger, Zywiec, Birra Moretti, Ochota, Murphy’s and Star. It operates in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and employs about 54,000 people. C Revlon produces, markets and sells cosmetics, skin-care products, fragrance and personal-care products. The company’s products are sold in over 100 countries across six continents. It is headquartered in New York City, New York, and employs about 5,600 people. D IOI Corporation Berhad is a diversified group that grows oil palm, produces rubber and is engaged in property development and investment, landscaping services and general contracting. The group has manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands, Malaysia and Egypt and sales offices in eight other countries including China. The group primarily operates in Malaysia. It is headquartered in Putrajaya, Malaysia, and employs around 27,330 people. E JDS Uniphase Corporation manufactures and markets optical products for communications, commercial and consumer applications. The company offers test and measurement systems and services for telecommunications service providers, cable operators and network equipment manufacturers. The company primarily operates in Asia Pacific. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and employs about 7,000 people worldwide. Choose the correct option. 1 Consumer goods and retailing 2 Travel and leisure 3 Agriculture and construction 4 Telecommunications 5 Drink and food

Match the sentence halves.

Fill in the gaps with the correct words. I’ve had a bank for a few years now, and I make sure my account is always . I go to the once a week, so I always have some with me, and I check my account online once a week to see how much I’ve got.

Match the words/phrases to their meanings.

Match the words/phrases to their meanings.

Read the texts and mark the statements true, false or not stated. A Oriental Land Company manages and develops theme parks. The company also has retail businesses and manages entertainment and leisure facilities. The company primarily operates in Japan. It is headquartered in Chiba, Japan, and employs 2,193 people. B Heineken brews and sells more than 170 beers, including Heineken, Amstel, Cruzcampo, Tiger, Zywiec, Birra Moretti, Ochota, Murphy’s and Star. It operates in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and employs about 54,000 people. C Revlon produces, markets and sells cosmetics, skin-care products, fragrance and personal-care products. The company’s products are sold in over 100 countries across six continents. It is headquartered in New York City, New York, and employs about 5,600 people. D IOI Corporation Berhad is a diversified group that grows oil palm, produces rubber and is engaged in property development and investment, landscaping services and general contracting. The group has manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands, Malaysia and Egypt and sales offices in eight other countries including China. The group primarily operates in Malaysia. It is headquartered in Putrajaya, Malaysia, and employs around 27,330 people. E JDS Uniphase Corporation manufactures and markets optical products for communications, commercial and consumer applications. The company offers test and measurement systems and services for telecommunications service providers, cable operators and network equipment manufacturers. The company primarily operates in Asia Pacific. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and employs about 7,000 people worldwide. Choose the correct option. 1 Oriental Land Company has more employees than Revlon. 2 Heineken produces more than 200 beers. 3 Revlon products are sold worldwide. 4 IOI Corporation Berhad’s main operations are in Malaysia. 5 JDS Uniphase Corporation is based in Mexico. 6 JDS Uniphase Corporation is the most successful company in Asia Pacific.

Fill in the gaps with the correct words/phrases. When I went to university, I had to get a to pay my . That meant I had to be careful and make sure I didn’t , but by the time I finished my degree, I a lot. One good thing is that I don’t have to pay it back until I get a job, and I’m a of money. At the moment, I’m for a new laptop; the one I have is very slow and keeps going wrong. I’d love to have a car as well, but I it.

Read the statements and mark them Yes or No. 1 Is sterling a currency? 2 If you rent something, do you own it? 3 If you waste money, do you use it well? 4 Can you get money from a cashpoint? 5 If you are in credit, do you have money in your account? 6 Is the currency in the Russian Federation called the lira? 7 Do you normally get back a deposit? 8 If you ‘can afford’ something, do you have enough money for it?

Fill in the gaps with the correct words. There are TWO extra words you do not need to use. 1 From the previous year to last year, Hovis’s profits . 2 Hovis believes that they will the advertising costs as profits increase. 3 Hovis sales were 11 per cent two years ago. 4 The relaunch led to a small in market share. 5 The Gorilla ad stopped the in Cadbury’s sales.

Read the text and choose the correct options. Innovation and inspiration By Michael Steen DSM still goes by the initials that stood for Dutch State Mines when it was founded more than a century ago. The letters are one of a few things that haven’t changed for a company that has been in a continual state of transformation throughout most of its history. The coal mines in the south of the Netherlands are now closed. But, even when coal was central to its business, DSM expanded into fertilizers as a way of using the ammonia produced during coal processing operations. Over the decades, the focus shifted to plastics and, later, chemicals. Today, it is once again reinventing itself, this time seeking out the higher-margin and less cyclical sectors of life sciences and material sciences. The company has tried to attract the finest technical minds and put research and development at the heart of the business. But, argues Feike Sijbesma, chief executive, a greater focus on good management is just as important. 'Innovation, coming up with new products and launch concepts and business models, is one of the main drivers of our strategy,' Mr Sijbesma says. ‘The whole idea about our business education starts with our strategy... You need a lot of technical knowledge, but you also need to change the company in terms of culture and behaviour.’ The company wants to create managers who can show inspirational leadership. Mr Sijbesma defines this as combining ‘authenticity and vulnerability with clear direction’. DSM now works with four business schools – IMD in Switzerland, Wharton and Babson University in the US and RSM in Rotterdam – and sends top executives to all four schools to develop leadership skills, gain industry insight and work on special projects that can feed into overall corporate strategy. The links with the universities help graduate recruitment. It also puts its executives in contact with other business people. 'Our executives get to meet people from other companies and learn a lot from them during these leadership discussions about industry developments. 'The programmes are focussed on two things: personal leadership skills and business elements,' Mr Sijbesma says. He adds that learning is a key part of his drive to transform the group into an innovative life science and material science company. 'What we want to do with this whole learning architecture and with those universities is to make a stronger foundation to support or speed up this whole change process,' he says. Choose the best alternative to complete the sentences. 1 DSM hopes that its managers will learn to ___ the company’s employees. 2 Executives from DSM ___ at business schools around the world. 3 The training courses allow DSM managers to ___ other people in the industry. 4 Mr Sijbesma says he wants to use education to help his company come up with ___. 5 Mr Sijbesma says that he hopes to ___ change in his company.