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UNIT B .... REVISION
WRITING
Write a set of guidelines (175-200 words) for managers to deal with their
team in a positive way. Write them as answers to these questions.
1 What should I do if I think someone is overworking and getting burnt out?
2 How can I motivate staff who complain that they are underpaid?
3 What should I do if a member of staff arrives at work late every day?
6 Risk
VOCABULARY
1 Complete the sentences below with the correct form of the words in
the box.
I anticipate eliminate encounter estimate identify prioritise spread weigh up I
1 We're ............ a downturn next year, so we're being cautious this year.
2 We've ............ the pros and cons and decided that the risk is too great.
3 Can you ............ the items in the budget? What's the most important expense?
What's the least important?
4 Palmer has ............ a way to reduce risk that nobody else thought of.
5 We've reduced risk by ............ our lending across more markets.
6 We ............ the cost of opening a new office to be more than a million pounds.
We think it's too risky.
7 The risk of not hiring a local manager is that we'll ............ problems with the local
staff as a result.
8 We can't completely ............ risk, but we can reduce it.
2 Circle the odd word out in each group.
1 slight minuscule negligible immediate
2 remote considerable serious imminent
3 terrible tremendous potential huge
4 significant minimal substantial great
ADVERBS OF
DEGREE
Choose the best word to complete each sentence.
1 We've done exceptionally /moderately well this year. For the past five years, we've sold
about 200,000 units a year, but we've already shifted 4 50,000 this year!
2 The employee happiness scores were 3/10 two years ago, 4/10 last year, and 5/10 this
year, so our workers are becoming entirely /increasingly happy.
3 The flight delays and cancellations totally /slightly ruined our conference. We were
supposed to have 1,200 delegates, but only about 150 were able to attend.
4 Entering the German market looks a bit I extremely risky, but I don't think we'll
encounter any major problems. Let's do it.
5 He's been working successfully in top management for more than 20 years, so he's
fairly /fully qualified to run the company.
6 We've sold 50,000 a year for the past five years, so I think increasing your sales target
to 350,000 next year is highly /reasonably ambitious.
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