Business Result Pre-Intermediate Unit 5 First Lesson
How important are the following things for you? Rank them from 1 to 11 by how much time you want to spend on that subject in your English classes:
Emailing
Telephoning
Teleconferences and videoconferences
Writing reports
Meeting people
Meetings and negotiations
Giving presentations
Talking about graphs and numbers
Idioms
Polite language
Dealing with complaints
Rank the things below by how important they are to you when you choose a job, then compare your answers with someone else and see if you can persuade them to change their time.
Private healthcare
High salary
Paid holidays
Free childcare
Subsidized cafeteria
Annual bonus
Gym membership
Pension scheme
Mobile phone
Nice view
Your own office
Parking space
Maternity and paternity leave
Flexible hours
Company car
Laptop
Do you think most people would agree with what you’ve put? If it depends, what does it depend on?
Read the article on page 30 and check.
Without looking back at the list on the previous page, match up the following collocations:
Private health phone
High paternity leave
Paid bonus
Free child scheme
Subsidized space
Annual salary
Gym membership
Pension care
Mobile holiday
Nice care
Your own office
Parking hours
Maternity and view
Flexible cafeteria
Company top
Lap car
Do the same with this vocabulary about recruitment (which you haven’t seen yet):
Application annum
Cover period
Panel application
HR department
Psychometric letter
Trial letter
Job list
Short interview
Rejection testing
Job CV
Net date
Per experience
Closing salary
Previous form
Video description
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