1 | Progress test

A Hello, my name 11______________ Ali

Working with words Kishan and I 12______________ the Managing
Director of Kishan Foods.
Complete the table with countries and nationalities.
B Good morning, Mr Kishan. Where
13
______________ your company exactly?
Country Nationality A We 14______________ in England.
India Indian B 15
______________ you also in other countries?
A No, we 16______________.
B But you 17______________ English. Where
1___________
Japan 18
______________ you from?
A I 19______________ from India but my wife
2___________
20
______________ from the UK.
Italian
Underline the correct answer from the words in
3___________
Brazil italics.

4___________ 21 Our / We customers are in Asia and South

Polish America.
22 They / Their company is Polish.
5___________
South Africa 23 Are you / your Spanish?
24 Where is he / his company based?
25 That’s Brigit. She’s / Her’s a colleague and a
Complete the two conversations with words from friend.
the list.

team Chief marketing personal human Business communication

Conversation 1: Match 26–30 to a–e.
A What’s your job?
B I’m the 6_____________ director for a small 26 It’s good …____
online company. What about you? 27 How do …____
A I’m a 7______________ resources manager and 28 Pleased to …____
this is Nigel. He’s a 8______________ leader in 29 Have a …____
our design department. 30 See you … ____

Conversation 2: a meet you.

A Who’s that? b soon.
B That’s Sheila McFee. She’s our 9______________ c to see you again.
Executive Officer. It’s her company and I’m her d good journey.
10
______________ assistant. e you do, Anna?

Result ______________ / 30 marks

Language at work
Complete this interview with the correct form of
the verb be.
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Speaking test
Role cards
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
Meet someone at a conference for the first time.
• say hello Meet someone at a conference for the first time.
• introduce yourself • say hello
• say where you are from (country) • introduce yourself
• ask the other person to spell their name and • say where you are from (country)
spell your name • ask the other person to spell their name and
• ask the name of the other person’s company spell your name
and say the name of your company. • ask the name of the other person’s company
and say the name of your company.

Speaking test results

Use these forms to evaluate the students.

Student A Student B

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

introduce him/ introduce him/

herself herself

say where he / she is say where he / she is

from from

ask the other person ask the other person

to spell his / her to spell his / her
name and spell his / name and spell his /
her own name her own name
ask the name of the ask the name of the
other person’s other person’s
company and say company and say
his / her own his / her own
company name company name

Result ______________ / 10 marks Result ______________ / 10 marks

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