Unit 1 Corporate Culture Progress Test

Task 2 / Recording 1.49
Galina is working as an intern in a large company in Hong Kong. She is in an appraisal with her manager. Listen and complete the gaps in this extract from the manager’s summary with one or two words.

APPRAISAL SUMMARY: Self-assessment

Strengths

Galina sees herself as (1) a hard-working person who gets her job done ______________
(2) someone who sticks to _______________
(3) someone who always _________________ to stay calm
(4) a friendly, _________________ and social person
She didn’t (5) _________________ agree with Alan’s opinion that she isn’t a team-player, but she did agree that she works best on her own.
Weaknesses
She would like to improve her time management as she finds it hard to start work
(6) _________________ when she gets to the office. She thinks this is because in her country people come to work (7) _________________ in the morning.
Action
Galina agreed that she (8) __________________ to work on her time management.
Part 4 Speaking


Prepare a one-minute presentation on one of these topics. You have one minute to prepare your talk.

A
What is important when starting up a business?

• 
  Ambition
  
• 
  Original ideas
  

B
What is important when making successful sales of products?

• 
  Free samples
  
• 
  Talking to the customer
  

C
What is important when having an appraisal?

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  Being honest about your weaknesses
  
• 
  Being confident about your strengths
  

Variant V
Name: _______________________________


Part 1 Reading
Task 1
Read the article about ‘ad-wrapping’, and sentences 1–10 below.