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Grammar Review

The document provides a grammar review exercise on business English tenses including: 1) Completing sentences in the simple present tense with verbs from a box to describe business operations and locations. 2) Answering questions in the simple present tense about business specializations, products, locations, and competitors. 3) Identifying whether sentences should be in the simple present or present continuous tense to describe ongoing or habitual business actions. 4) Completing sentences in the simple past tense to describe past business actions and orders. 5) Writing sentences in the simple present tense to describe regular business operations and statements. 6) Completing sentences in the present perfect simple tense to describe completed business

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Grammar Review

The document provides a grammar review exercise on business English tenses including: 1) Completing sentences in the simple present tense with verbs from a box to describe business operations and locations. 2) Answering questions in the simple present tense about business specializations, products, locations, and competitors. 3) Identifying whether sentences should be in the simple present or present continuous tense to describe ongoing or habitual business actions. 4) Completing sentences in the simple past tense to describe past business actions and orders. 5) Writing sentences in the simple present tense to describe regular business operations and statements. 6) Completing sentences in the present perfect simple tense to describe completed business

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GRAMMAR REVIEW.

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24.11.2016
IN CLASS.
FEEDBACK: Do the exercises on line.
1. Present tense. Business English. Review 1.

1.- Complete the sentences with the verbs from the box below in the simple present tense. Make
any necessary changes:

WORK START OPERATE (twice) SPECIALIZE BE HAVE (twice)


PROVIDE

A) My company (1)___________ Internet services


B) They usually (2)___________ work at 8:30
C) We (3)___________ an office in Manchester and another one in Newark
D) She (4)___________ for an engineering company
E) Their head office (5)___________ in Adeje, Tenerife.
F) This company (6)___________ in phone services
G) This group (7)___________ on all six continents
H) Our main competitors (8)___________ in England
I) It (9)___________ annual sales of €300 million

2. Present tense. Reviewing 2.

1. 6.
What ______they specialize in? We are a quite small company. We only have
a) do 15 ..................
b) does
a) employers
b) employees
2. 7.
Where ______________ subsidiaries? What other ............ does the company make?
a) products
a) has the company b) produces
b) does the company have

8. Who ___________ your main competitor?


3. What time_________work? a) is
a) does she start b) are
b) she starts
4. 9. Do you ............... insurance services?
Who ____________ work for?
a) do their brother a) provides
b) does their brother b) provide

5. What kind of products ________________ ? 10. Our head office is in Portugal, but we ............ in
many different countries
a) does your company sale a) are based
b) does your company sell b) specialize in

3. Simple Present or Present Continuous?

1. John __________________ (look after) Catriona's clients while she


__________________ (be) on maternity leave.
a) is looking after/is
b) looks after/ is

2. On your CV it __________________ (say) that you __________________ (speak) some


Chinese.
a) is saying/speak
b) says/speak
c) says/speaks

3. Yes, in fact, I __________________ (currently / take) private classes. I


__________________ (think) Chinese is going to be a very useful languge in our sector.
a) currently take/ I'm thinking
b) am currently taking/ think

4. Where __________________ (your company / hold) its AGM this year?


a) is your company holding
b) does your company hold

5. They __________________ (have) the meeting this Thursday at 3pm. Will you be able to
attend?
a) have
b) are having

6. No, I'm afraid not. I __________________ (go) to a conference in Paris.


a) am going
b) go

7. Times are hard so we .......... 50 people redundant.

a) are making
b) make

8. Karen .......... in her report later today.

a) is sending
b) sends

9. Things are really great. Business ..........

a) is booming
b) booms

10. H.P. .......... a new advanced type of printer.

a) develops
b) is developing
7. Complete the sentences in Simple Past.

1. Our company (start) business in 1995. (affirmative)


2. Our company (start) business in 1995. (Now in its interrogative form).
3. We (order) the goods two months ago. (Affirmative)
4. We (order) the goods two months ago. (Interrogative)
5. I (send) you the letter last week. (Affirmative)
6. I (send) you the letter last week. (Interrogative)
7. I (send) you the letter last week. (Negative)
8. We (receive) your order yesterday. (Negative)
8. Write sentences in the Simple Present.

1. I / be / fluent in English.

2. Sean King / work / in purchasing.

3. Sean King / work / in purchasing?

4. our company / supply / technical products?

5. they / not / sell / computers.

6. they / sell / computers?

7. They /never/ send me the right invoice.

8. They/not/deal/ with printers.

9. Present Perfect Simple.-


1. We are happy to inform you that we (establish) ____________a new branch in Australia.
2. Bob Westley (sign / already) ____________the contract.
3. We (acquire) _________a new customer.

4. Alice Wilson (agree) _________to organise the teams.

5. I (print out / just) _________the letter.

6. Our customers (be / always) ______satisfied with our services.

7. Unfortunately, you (react / not) _________to our reminder notice.

8. Hannah (send / not) ____________out the quotation yet.

9. (receive / you) __________our order?

10. Which company (submit) ____________the most favourable offer?

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