English for Business Life Elementary

Practice
A chance meeting in Japan
1 Listen to the dialogue. Are the sentences below
[Tj or false [~Fl?
a The speakers work in the same team,
b The visitor likes Tokyo very much,
c
He knows Tokyo well,
d He is in town for two days,
e He is leaving on Tuesday evening,
f
The speakers are meeting again tomorrow.
Time references: parts o f the day
2 Write the correct prepositions in the gaps. Note that
in some cases, no preposition is needed.
e.g. He is leaving M adrid....Tuesday morning.
a She is visiting her distributor.............. tomorrow
morning.
b They are flying h o m e.............. Saturday
afternoon.
c We are taking the sales team to a restaurant
.............. this evening.
d He's going h o m e ................ Wednesday - his flight
is .............. the morning.
e The design team are w orking...............tonight -
the deadline is ...............tomorrow morning.
f
We're meeting a g ain ..........................the morning.
g The customer is collecting the sam ples..............
this evening.
true
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Present Continuous used for the future
4 Imagine a colleague is asking about your plans.
Write answers to the questions,
e.g. What are you doing tomorrow?
X.W vjSi.tiHkg'..5pvH,e- C4AsfovK&rs...................
a W hat are you doing later today?
b Are you doing anything tomorrow morning?
c What are you doing tomorrow afternoon?
d Are you doing anything the day after tomorrow?
e What are you doing this weekend?
f
W hat are your plans for next week?
understand/hear/believe, etc.
5 Think of people you work with, and write
examples. Use the table as a guide.
you are leaving in the
hear morning.
I
believe
you speak Chinese.
you know my boss / my
We understand manager.
see
you are visiting Hong Kong
next week.
Days o f the week
3 Write these abbreviations in full.
Mon ...................... Fri ......................
Tue ...................... Sat ......................
Wed ...................... Sun ......................
Thu ......................
I kfiAr yrplA
tomorrow
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