Practical Grammar and Vocabulary in the Workplace. Пособие по бизнес-английскому

Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first sentenceВ (s).

1. My colleague travels so much. He misses aВ lot ofВ important meetings.

If my colleague didn’t travel so much he wouldn’t miss so many meetings

2.I take taxis all the time. I don’t have a company car.

If I.. …taxis all the time.

3.You don’t spend time building client relationships, so you have poor sales results.

If you ..........better sales results.

4.I haven’t done a presentation course.

If I.... .........at more conferences.

5 We don’t fly business class. It costs so much.

We……… so much.

6. IВ work inВ an open-plan office. People interrupt me frequently.

If I… … .......so often.

7.My boss doesn’t have a PA. She’s not very efficient.

If my boss… … …more efficient.

8.They haven’t sent us the final order. We aren’t able to close their account.

If they ......their account.

9. They don’t know what to do in this situation. We are thinking of hiring new workers.

If they …..new workers.

10В The manager turns aВ blind eye toВ her complaints. She wants toВ resign.

If the manager… to resign.

3. Find and correct five mistakes inВ these sentences. Tick (,/) the sentences that are correct.

1В If you would toВ expand into Europe, would you base yourself inВ Paris or somewhere else?

2В Were IВ you, IВ would never rely on the person who flip-flops everyВ hour

3 The job won’t be so bad if there weren’t so much travelling.

4 If we won the Innovation Award, it gave us a lot of free publicity, but unfortunately we won’t.

5 Our profits for this quarter would be significantly bigger if fuel costs weren’t so high.

6В If interest rates would go up, many people would be unable toВ pay their mortgages.

7 If I moved to Stockholm, I’d have to sell my house, so I’m going to turn down the Swedish job offer.

8 If investors had more confidence in the CEO, would they be less critical of the company’s recent economic results?

9 If they wouldn’t have spent so much on the new offices, they wouldn’t have such cashflow problems.

10В Were you toВ do it on your own, it would be only you toВ face the music

4. Underline the correct words

1В If we sent the goods byВ sea, the transport costs will/would be much lower.

2.