Progress test 3 Answer key

LISTENING (10 MARKS)

1e 2i 3f 4a 5c 6d 7b 8h 9g 10 j

VOCABULARY (16 MARKS)

11 unemployment
12 exchange
13 interest
14 labour
15 tax
16 market
17 sales
18 plan
19 figures
20 lifecycle
21 campaign
22 behaviour
23 keep to
24 meet
25 rearrange
26 collect

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LANGUAGE (16 MARKS)
27 When do you want to visit Bahrain?
28 I called him as soon as I arrived.
29 How should we announce the restructuring?
30 They’re going to open a new office.
31 How many people are we expecting at the conference?
32 We would like to increase our sales.
33 Do you expect demand to go up next year?
34 They’re hoping to improve their performance.
35 When
36 before
37 Have
38 going to
39 until
40 as soon
41 having
42 while

SKILLS (16 MARKS)

43 d 44 a 45 e 46 f 47 c 48 b 49 e 50 b 51 d 52 a 53 c
54 eight hundred and ninety million, five hundred and forty thousand, three hundred and
thirty-four
55 six-thirteenths
56 fifty-eight per cent
57 fifty-nine thousand euros
58 nought point three eight nine

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READING (12 MARKS)
59 True
60 True
61 False
62 False
63 True
64 False
65 full-time job
66 new business
67 finance
68 sales
69 someone
70 ‘foil’

WRITING (10 MARKS)

See page 43 for Examiner’s notes.

MODEL ANSWER TO WRITING TASK

Dear Owen,
Rob Simms suggested I get in touch with you. I’m the CEO of a small software firm. We produce
some games and also an online customer feedback form that we are hoping will be very successful.
We would like to more than double our sales in the next three years but we’re not sure how to do it.
We would like to make some of our software available to buy online but we’re unsure how to go
about it.
We realise that we don’t know our market and that we need to carry out some market research but we
don’t know how to do that. Also, we’re unsure about our pricing. We’re afraid that it’s currently too
high. Finally, we feel it is time to launch some sort of promotion but we need some good ideas for
that.
Would you be available for a lunch meeting sometime next week to discuss the possibility of working
together?
I look forward to hearing from you,
(Name)

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