The Business pi answer key

3
positive, helpful, calm, organized
4
Positive: When the sales department in his last job was reorganized, he saw 
it as a chance to learn more.
Helpful: He volunteered for a mentoring system four times in his last 
position.
Calm: He does yoga and he meditates.
Organized: He uses an online personal organizer and never misses meetings 
or deadlines.
5
1 ambition
2 decision
3 fi nance
4 fl exible
5 organization
6 pioneer
7 successful
8 stress
6
1 fi nancial
2 adventure
3 organized
4 stress
5 pioneering
6 decisions
7 ambitions
4.3 Grammar
 Past simple, past continuous and 
used to
1
a) Past continuous (He was working at the University of Chittagong in the 
1970s.)
b) Past simple (Muhammad Yunnus founded Grameen Bank in 1977.)
2
1 launched
2 was working
3 discovered
4 were living
5 met
6 was visiting
7 lent
8 didn’t ask
9 changed
10 were
11 received
3
1 used to smoke
2 used to call
3 used to live
4 didn’t use to like
5 didn’t use to do
6 used to be
4
1 c) 2 a) 3 d) 4 b) 5 g) 6 e) 7 f)
4.4 Speaking
 Appraisals
1
1 Galina thinks her strengths are that: she’s hard-working, she’s a team-
player, she’s a friendly and sociable person, she’s calm and good at 
working under pressure. 
2 Suki agrees with everything except ‘team player’.
3 Galina thinks her weaknesses are that: she’s not very creative, she’s not 
focused, she needs to improve her time management.
4 Suki disagrees that Galina is not very creative, but otherwise agrees.
2
1 D 2 A 3 D 4 A 5 A 6 D 7 A 
3
1 That’s right. You certainly are! Oh, defi nitely. Absolutely. You sure are!
2 That sounds about right.
3 I can’t agree with that. That’s just not true.
4 Well no, not completely. I’m not sure. You probably are, 
but …
4
I’m sorry, but I can’t agree with you.
I agree with you up to a point.
I don’t really see it that way.
The problem is that …
I’m afraid I don’t completely agree with you.
Well, maybe, but …