COMPANIES 

WARM-UP 
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Exercise 1:  
Name a company in each of these business sectors. Is there one that you would like to work for? 
 
● Telecommunication/  ● Construction  ● Food and Drink 
Media  ● Banking and finance  ● Retailing 
● Engineering  ● Transport  ● Another service 
● Pharmaceuticals/  ● Manufacturing  industry 
Chemicals  ● IT/Electronics  ● Tourism 
 
Exercise 2: Companies 
What do you think are the main activities that these companies do and which country do they 
come from? 
 
Companies  Main Activity  Country 

Cisco Systems  Travel and financial services provider  Japanese 

Toyota  Telecommunications  Korean 
Inditex  Car manufacturer  Finnish 
American Express  Electronic-goods maker  Swiss 
Internet-equipment supplier  American 
Roche 
fashion/retail  German 
Samsung 
pharmaceuticals  Spanish 
Nokia  container-ship operator  Brazilian 
Hapag-Lloyd  Oil and gas  American 
Petrobras 
 
VOCABULARY 
 
Exercise 3: Listening for Vocabularies 
Listen to the CEO reading from the company report and choose among these phrases the CEO 
mentioned. 
 
immediate  placement  subsidiary 
particular  share price  police 
head office  location  net profit 
parent company  market share  turnover 
workforce  forward 
 
Exercise 4: Extract 
Complete the sentences using the appropriate phrases above. 
 
1. The amount of money a company receives from sales in a particular period is called its 
_________. 
2. The money a company makes after taking away its costs and tax is its _________. 
3. A company which owns another company is called a ________. 
4. The employees in a particular country or business are called the ________. 
5. The percentage of sales a company has in a particular market is its ____________. 
6. The main building or location of a large organization is its ____________. 
7. The cost of a company’s shares is its ___________. 
8. A company which is more than 50% owned by another company is called a _______. 
 
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