Verb Tense and Usage

Verb Choice and Tense

• Most people start work at 8 o'clock every morning.
• An accountant looks after money.
• How much money is spent on food each month.
• When Tom was a child, he used to eat ice-cream, but doesn't like it now.
• Nick wants the money, so give it to him.
• If I were rich, I would travel around the world.
• Someone is reading an interesting book and will return it to the library when finished.
• The baby began crying when his mother left.
• He used to work much harder last year.
• Would you like a cup of tea?
• The bus service is very good and comes every ten minutes.
• Someone is fond of playing tennis.
• You are the best friend anyone has ever had.
• It's always difficult for older people to find a job.
• Twenty new employees have been hired this year.
• He insisted on calling the police.
• When the factory closed, most of the staff were made redundant.

Verb Tenses and Sentence Completion

• The traffic was so heavy that the train was missed.
• During the job interview, difficult questions were asked.
• World Industries plans to get over our business.
• A $50 note was given to the waiter, and change was waited for.
• Bob invested a lot of money in his brother's business and made a profit.

Acronyms

• WTO stands for World Trade Organization.
• USP means unique selling point.
• BOGOF means buy one, get one free.

Opposites & Definitions

• The opposite of 'expensive' is 'cheap.'
• The opposite of 'easy' is 'difficult.'
• Achievement is a particular thing that you succeeded in doing after a lot of effort.
• Weakness is the opposite of strength.
• Strength is the opposite of weakness.
• Select is to choose a number of candidates for the next stage of selection.
• A grade is a letter or number that shows the quality of a student’s work.
• Am doing two assignments, one for economics and one for quantitative analyses.
• He checks his emails once a day.
• This week a friend from Ireland has stayed with me.
• At the moment someone is waiting to hear from an IT company that they sent their CV to.
• From time to time she does a bit of work in her father's company during the summer holidays.
• Since I was 19, I've been a student at this university.
• For three years, someone has been a student at this university.
• Someone had a great time during my university days.
• Many years ago, someone was a student at that university.
• Someone had a great time in the first two years at university, but after that there was a lot of work.

Skills and Abilities

• Skill is the ability to do something well, especially because you have practiced it.
• Experience is the knowledge or skill you get from being in different situations.
• Background is the type of education, experience, and family that you have.

Career and Collocations

• A career choice must be made.
• Reaching long-term goals is important.
• Satisfaction is preferred more than a job..
• New skills must be learned.
• Gain experience.
• Get a performance-related bonus.
• Send off a job application.
• Apply for a gap-year application.
• Aim, target and objective are similar to goals.
• Skill, know-how and knowledge are important.
• Information is part of a background.
• Experience is important.
• Aptitude is a natural ability to learn things quickly.

Negotiation Collocations

• Place, take, offer, fill a proposal.
• Bring down, quote, an order and state.
• Ask for offer and grant a discount.
• See, understand, sell and explain the benefits.
• Sort out, understand, discuss and go over price.
• Make, decide, reject and firm up a proposal.
• Subject to, consider, open to and under negotiation.
• Put down, pay, need and require a fee.
• Costs are annual, monthly, and an entrance.
• Hidden, extra and fixed costs.
• Meet, extend, consider and miss a deadline.
• Seek, consider, offer and find a compromise.

Business Terms

• Due diligence is full investigation of a company’s activities and finances.
• Liabilities are the amount of money that a company owes.
• Merger The process of combining two companies to form a bigger one
• Acquisition is something that someone buys, especially a company.
• Assets include buildings, money, and company equipment.
• Turnover measures a company’s ability to convert assets to cash quickly.
• Liquidity Total amount of money coming in from sales.
• Fixed costs do not change according to the level of output.
• Variable costs do change according to the level of output.
• Stabilize means to stop changing and become steady
• Fluctuate means to change freuently especially from a high level to a low one and back again
• Jump means to increase suddently and by a large amount.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• A merger is an agreement uniting two companies into one.
• Market share is the percentage of total sales in an industry generated by a particular company.
• The company with the highest market share in an industry is the corporation.
• Acquisitions are often involuntary as one company actively purchases another.
• A conglomerate merger happens between companies in unrelated business activities/industries.
• A market extension merger occurs between companies which sell the samne product but in different locations.

Workplace Terminology

• Combination is a synonym of merger.
• Split is the antonym of merger.
• Getting dismissed means someone was rejected from a workplace.
• Applied for a job prior to being hired.
• An interviewer offered the position after seeing their potential.
• Has been working on a CV for a long time.
• Negotiated after Harry argued with someone.
• Part of taxed income goes to the government.
• A transportation fare is the money for transport.
• Parents that give children money every week is called pocket money.
• Wage is money from work, usually given by the hour.
• Salary is money from work that is paid monthly.
• Easy going and sociable workers.
• Being adventurous means one likes new things or dangerous activities.

More Vocabulary

• A good organization has unwritten rules.
• CEO means Chief Executive Officer.
• The product in question must be exchanges.
• Refunds must be given.
• A problem must be sorted out.
• A deadline needs to be established.
• A workload is the amount of work given.
• Etiquette describes correct rules for behaving correctly.
• An overview is a summary of main features.
• Dedication, determination and commitment are signs of loyalty to a specific task.
• Someone who had a job once is a predecessor.
• An outcome is the final result of a process.
• An appraisal is how someone views success.
• A department is in charge of something.
• Someone is involved in something when doing it.
• For certain tasks, someone will be responsible.
• Someone working under you needs to have certain qualities.
• Working directly to you is important to certain business structures.
• A business runs on a day to day operations.
• An are of work needs to be taken care of.

Collocations

• Need a clean environment
• High volume of staff turnover
• Happy and satisfied customers
• High rates of work
• Need competent staff
• Human resources is a necessary department
• Research and development is vital for a business to survive

Marketing & Production

• Packaging is what is used to seduce customers.
• Point of View is important to clients.
• Purchasing decisions affect a view of people.
• The principle of communication is vital to development.
• A filed must be specialized.
• Consumer need to be known.
• Technical issues are what manufacturers deal with.
• An optimal solution is what tasks force deliver.
• Generating new ideas leads to product development.
• Uprofitable ideas must be screened out.
• A launch puts the product in the market.
• Specifications need to be written down.
• A market is conducted with production.
• Building up sketches lets one go into it.
• Testing must be done to ensure it's safe.

Marketing Terms

• USP means unique selling point.
• Benefit is an advantage that you get from something
• Feature is an important, interesting or typical part of something.
• Specification is a detailed instruction about how something should be made

Business Phrases & Grammar

• choice is key in any career.
• Long-term careers must have goals.
• Satisfaction is more important than a job.
• Certain skills must be learned.
• Experiences must be met.
• Bonuses are performance related.
• Applications are a large part of job searching.
• Career requires an application.
• Target and objective are key in a business.
• Know-how and skills are useful in an organization.
• It is better to be skillful.
• A high quality background is key.
• A proposal may be a correct noun.
• A stable order is vital for a job process to succeed.
• A discount may be useful
• A great compromise can be found with the right attitude.
• Costs relate to the amount due.
• a deadline has to me met.
• Offers must be compromised.
• A business may have certain problems if there is a lack of stability and liquidity.

Other Grammar

• The product may have certain flaws that need to be accounted for.
• People always have to double check their work as accidents can happen.

Job Related

• To get hired, one needs the right requirements.
• To be fired, certain laws must be broken and followed.
• One person may have different viewpoints to certain things in the work place.
• As such relationships are critical for job offers.
• After a difficult factory closure, it may be hard to find work.
• Those who have been properly screened may be offered the job.
• She has been working on the process for a long time.
• Taxes are a part of life that the populous has no control over.
• Picket income can usually be a good indicator if the economy is doing well.
• There may be issues when it comes to going for another job.
• To make a living for yourself one has to be very adventurous.
• It is important to treat work with the respect it deserves.

Workplace Skills & Attributes

• Monkey experiment demonstrated the unwritten rules of an organization.
• Is important to understand certain key aspects of what it means to work within an organization.