6 | Progress test

Working with words Business communication skills

Read groups of three words. One word is incorrect. Read the conversation. Replace the phrases in bold
Delete it. with phrases a–d.

1 Meat: steak, chicken, cheese a Is seven OK?

2 Vegetarian food: salad, meat, tomato b Do you want
3 Desserts: curry, cake, ice cream c would be nice
4 Drinks: water, juice, bread d I’m afraid
5 Places to eat: restaurant, menu, cafeteria
21___ 22___ 23___ 24___
Complete the sentences. Use words from the list.
21
A Would you like to have dinner tonight?
22
have like would don’t like help ’d like B I’d love to, but I can’t.
A What day can you meet?
B On Thursday.
6 Hello, can I ________ you? A That 23 ’d be great. 24 What time?
7 I ________ curry and rice, please. B Seven is fine.
8 What ________ you like?
9 Can I ________ ice cream, please? Tick (✔) the right ending (a or b).
10 Do you ________ Italian food?
11 I like bread, but I ________ cake. 25 Would you like …
a sing in the choir? b to sing in the choir?
Language at work
26 That …
Complete sentences 12–15 with a verb and a noun a does be nice. b would be nice.
from the lists.
27 See you …
play speak cook run a on Wednesday. b at Wednesday.

a marathon steak and fries tennis French 28 I’d love to, but …
a I busy. b I’m busy.
12 I can ________________________________.
13 I can ________________________________. 29 What day can you …
14 I can ________________________________. a play? b to play?
15 I can ________________________________.
30 See you …
Complete the conversation. Use can or can’t. a on eight thirty. b at eight thirty.

A Do you like music?

B Yes, I do.
16
A ________ you play a musical instrument?
B No, I 17 ________ . What do you do in your free
time?
A I like golf. 18 ________ you play?
B Yes, I 19 ________ . Do you want to play on
Saturday?
A Sorry, but I 20 ________. I’m busy.

Result ________ / 30 marks

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Speaking test
Interviews
Copy this page and cut out the role cards for the students. Then use the Speaking test results form to evaluate
each student’s performance. You can then cut out the results and give them to the students.

Student A
Student B
Role-play 1
Role-play 1
Telephone your colleague (Student B) at work.
• Invite him / her to dinner at a new Japanese Your colleague (Student A) telephones you at work.
restaurant. • Say yes to the invitation.
• Say a day (Tuesday) and a time (nine o’clock). • You can’t meet on Tuesday. Say another day.
• Accept and end the call. • End the call.

Role-play 2 Role-play 2

Your colleague (Student B) telephones you at work. Telephone your colleague (Student A) at work.
• Say yes to the invitation. • Invite him / her to play golf.
• You can’t meet at five o’clock. Say another time. • Say a day (Monday) and a time (five o’clock).
• End the call. • Accept and end the call.

Speaking test results

Use these forms to evaluate the students.

Student A Student B

Can the student …? Didn’t do this Yes, but with Yes, did this Can the student …? Didn’t do this Yes, but with Yes, did this
(0 points) some mistakes very well (2 (0 points) some mistakes very well
(1 point) points) (1 point) (2 points)

start and end the start and end the

call call

invite the other invite the other

person person

say yes to an say yes to an

invitation invitation
say a day and time say a day and time

say no to a day or say no to a day or

time time

Result ________ / 10 marks Result ________ / 10 marks

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