SELF STUDY 1
Task 1. Vocabulary
Exercise 1. Put the words in the correct order to make questions about
communication styles.
1 How / like to be / a business colleague / you / speaking with / when / close / do ?
2 How / eye contact / with / comfortable / much / are you ?
3 How / prolonged periods / comfortable / are / of silence / you with ?
4 How / do / interrupted / you / being / feel about ?
Exercise 2. Complete the idioms in the sentences with the words in the box.
ball, field, game, goalposts, horse, neck ,seat
1 Dave's views on management may have seemed practical and attractive 20 years
ago, but now he's just flogging a dead . . . . . . . . .. . . .
None of his ideas could
possibly be put into practice.
2 Given our country's industrial policy and the new global economic environment,
we should clear unreasonable hurdles and provide a level playing . . . . to all
businesses, regardless of their size and nationality.
3 Smaller countries became frustrated, believing that the big powers kept moving
the . . . . . . . . . . . . and failed to outline fixed rules that all should play by.
4 The creativity of our R&D people has enabled our company to stay ahead of the .
. . .. . . . . in this highly competitive market.
5 The two rival companies were running neck and . . . . . . . . . . . . in the push to
achieve national leadership through local dominance.
6 Unprecedented state involvement in the car industry
has put governments in
America, Germany and elsewhere in the driving . . . . . . . . . . . . in deciding their
carmakers' fate.
7 We are a French company, but our goal is to go international. However, we don't
want to go global too early. It's extremely important for us to keep our eye on the .
. . . . . .. . . . in France.
