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Practice
1) Match a sentence or phrase on the left with one from the right.
a. Please help yourselves 1- describe the new proposal.
b. If we’re all here, 2- Thank you Michel. It’s good to be here.
c. I’d like to start by 3- to the brochures at the back.
d. I have a handout with the statistics on. 4- let’s make a start.
e. I’d like to welcome Sonja Malden. 5- Please take one as I pass them around.
f. After that I’d like to 6- please feel free to ask me.
g. Today, I’d like to talk about 7- outlining the plan for the day.
h. If you have any questions, 8- the success we’ve had with after-sales.

2) Complete the sentences with the correct word.

e.g.: It’s good to meet you. have / take / meet
a. Did everyone _______________ a handout? give / get / go
b. Don’t _______________ about taking notes. worry / forget / think
c. Please _______________ yourselves. meet / have / help
d. Please feel _______________ to stop me. expensive / free / open
e. I’d like to _______________ the past. let / happen / describe
f. I want to _______________________ on the results first. look / worry / focus
g. If we’re all here, I’ll _______________. introduce / begin / leave
h. It’s good to _______________ Shireen here from the Head Office. have / like / present
i. I have the figures for the last three months to _______________ to you. help / present / begin
j. Would you like to _______________ a handout? take / introduce / leave
k. I’d _______________ to talk today about last year’s sales figures. like / take / have
l. I plan to _______________ about twenty minutes for questions at the end. leave / take / begin
m. I’d like to _______________ our speaker today. meet / present / introduce

3) Fill in the gaps with one of these prepositions: ON – FROM – BY – AS – AT – ON – BY – FOR .

a. Thank you for coming.
b. There are copies _______________ the table.
c. It’s good to have Michelle here _______________ the Malaysian office.
d. We can discuss any questions _______________ the end.
e. I want to focus _______________ the five-year plan.
f. _______________ the end of this session, you’ll be able to teach your staff how to use this program.
g. I’m talking to you today _______________ the designer of this new marketing plan.

4) Write down a possible phrase or sentence from the dialogues for each of the following. Use the words provided
in brackets.
Eg: You are a sales manager from the Frankfurt office. Not everyone knows you. How do you introduce yourself at
the beginning of a presentation? (I’m . . .)
Hello, I’m Dieter Kuhl from the Frankfurt office.

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a. David Wang has welcomed you and thanked you for coming to talk today. How do you reply? (glad)

b. You want to get everyone’s attention so that you can start your meeting. What can you say? (here/begin)

c. You have handouts that you want to give people. What can you say? (take)

d. In your presentation, you plan to explain the problems of the old process and then present the new process.
How can you explain what you are going to do? (First / After that)

e. How can you tell your listeners that there will be time for questions at the end?

f. How can you change the topic of your presentation – you are speaking about

5) Complete the following introduction with appropriate words from the unit.
S: Well, if everyone’s (a) _______________________ (b) _______________________ start; it’s great to
have Liu Weii here (c) ____________________ the office in Beijing. As you (d) _____________________,
he is the Director of Marketing and has achieved excellent result.
LW: Good afternoon. Thank you Sam. I’m (e) ____________________ to be here today. OK, today I’d (f)
____________________ to talk about the development in the Beijing office. We’ve had to develop
quickly to meet the demands of the market and it’s been hard work but very rewarding. In my
presentation this afternoon I’d like to (g) ____________________ three main points. (h)
____________________, I’ll briefly outline our small beginning two years ago; (i) ___________________
I’ll explain how we adapted the RB409 range to suit the local market and (j) ____________________ I’ll
show our success. If you have any questions, there’ll be (k) ____________________ at the end.
Before I start, I (l) ____________________ a handout for you. It has the graphs and main notes on it.
Would you like to (m) ____________________ one? Here you are.

Designed by Tania Santos

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
 COTTON, David, FALVEY, David, KENT Simon. Market Leader Intermediate New Edition, Person Education
Limited, 2006
 COTTON, David, FALVEY, David, KENT Simon. Market Leader Upper-Intermediate New Edition, Person
Education Limited, 2006
 STRUT, Peter – Market Leader – Business Grammar and Usage. Person Education Limited, 2006.
 LAWRENCE, Anne Freig – Business Presentations – English for Work. Longman Press, 2006.
 MASCULL, Bill – Business Vocabulary in Use -. Cambridge University Press, 2004.