Task grammar and vocabulary exercises exercise “I'm really busy this morning I interview

TASK 3 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY EXERCISES
EXERCISE 1
“I'm really busy this morning - I interview three candidates for that sales job - the second one is outside now. Yesterday was even worse. I interviewed five candidates in two hours, and none of them were any good. Let me see, over the last ten days I think I have interviewed sixteen candidates. Just imagine! And every time I am interviewing someone there's a CV to read, questions to prepare, records to keep. It just never ends. Right now, I need a break. Has anyone saw that travel brochure about holidays in the Seychelles? I know I put it somewhere. Wait a minute. There's no-one here. I am talking to myself.”
EXERCISE 2
1. Knowledge that you need to be able to do something: know-how
2. Information that someone knows: knowledge
3. An ability to do something well, especially because you have practised it: skill
4. Knowledge or skill you get from being in different situations: experience
5. The type of education, experience and family that you have: background
6. A natural ability to do something well or to learn it quickly: aptitude

EXERCISE 3
1. On vacation in Kenya, a buyer with IBM heard about a small new factory and called - a salesman.
2. She asked - the salesman if his components conformed to American norms.
3. She insisted in seeing the workshop and commented on the poor working conditions.
4.Nevertheless, the salesman succeed in convincing her to consent about a trial order.
5. He told - the buyer that she could rely on him to organize everything.
6. She returned to the US, looking forward to receiving the components, but after several weeks she had heard nothing in Kenya.
7. Eventually she rang - the factory and complained to the manager.
8. The manager apologized politely to the delay, but explained that he was still waiting - a report on the new customer's creditworthiness.

EXERCISE 4
1. full investigation of a company's activities and finances liabilities
2. the amount of money that a company owes turnover
3. the process of combining two companies to form a bigger one merger
4. something that someone buys (especially a company that has been bought by another company) acquisition
5. costs that alter directly when the business alters its level of output (e.g. raw materials, components, labour costs for factory workers) variable costs
6. costs that do not alter when the business alters its level of output (e.g. rent, marketing, management salaries) fixed costs
7. things such as money, buildings or equipment that a person or company owns assets
8. measure of a company's ability to quickly convert assets into cash liquidity
9. reductions in the cost of producing a unit of a product that occur as the output increases economies of scale
10. total amount of money coming into a company from sales (usually given as an annual figure) due diligence