Practice

1. PHOTOCOPIABLE © Cambridge University Press 2015
Vocabulary practice
PV
Unit 5
Business
1 Choose the best answers to complete the text.
This company is a good 1 employer / employee as they
offer plenty of career prospects. For example, you could
work in the publicity and 2 marketing / market
researcher department. Alternatively, you could go out on
the streets as a 3 stock marketer / market researcher. Even
the lowest-paid jobs such as shelf stacker are not 4 loss
/ dead-end jobs, as you can move up to work on the tills.
This company has a large 5 market share / stock market
and is hiring new people all the time. The 6 stock market
/ job market is busy for this company and there are both
part-time and 7 long-term / full-time jobs. However, staff
need to be honest and reliable. Just yesterday, one man
8 was parted / got the sack for stealing money from the till.
2 Write words that have a similar meaning to the underlined
words using the phrases from the box.
mean business open for business went out of business
run my own business start up a business
1 I would love to have my own company.
2 The shop wasn’t a success so we had to close it.
3 I declare this shop is now up and running.
4 Mr Smith wants to show the competition that we are
serious, so he’s reducing the prices.
5 What advice can you give someone who wants to set up
their own company?
3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the
phrasal verbs from the box.
clock up come up with grow up start up sum up
1 Our website one million hits!
2 Mr and Mrs Jones their own
company selling accessories online in 2013.
3 When I , I wanted to be a
police officer.
4 So, to , in order to move
forward we need a more aggressive business plan.
5 Sarah an excellent idea.
Prefixes
4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words
in brackets.
1 Jason is so (organise). He’s always losing files
and mislaying papers.
2 The heating bill was huge because they had
(estimate) the amount of energy we had used.
3 The delivery person said there were ten boxes, but I think
he (count) because I can see twelve.
4 I prefer to (pay) for my hotel so I don’t have a
big bill waiting when I get home.
5 I’m sorry but I’m going to have to (calculate)
this bill as I don’t think it’s correct.
6 The surveyor said he needed to (value) the
price of the house due to changes in the property market.
7 It looks like the money has been (spend),
because it lists five boxes of paper here but I don’t see any
boxes anywhere.
8 The company (charge) us but they have
agreed to send a revised invoice, which will be a lot less.
5 Complete the sentences with the correct words.
1 I think they u how much work was involved.
This is going to take hours!
2 When you buy a car, its worth tends to d
quickly.
3 It’s always better to r the quantity delivered to
make sure it’s correct.
4 At the end of the year, there was a considerable amount
u so we were under budget for the first time.
5 I think they m how much food they would
need. This would feed an army!
6 The company always c us the correct amount,
they are very good about that.
7 Students usually r their loans over a long
period of time.
Idioms
6 Put the idioms in the correct order to complete the
sentences.
1 This website has been running / up / and for six months
now.
2 My dad has head / a / got / for business, which is why he has
been successful.
3 I wouldn’t leave this job love / for / nor / money.
4 I disagreed with my manager so I decided to alone / it / go.
5 When they said they would oppose our ideas, I replied it /
bring / on / !