1.

An invitation to a party
Automated message: You have two new messages. Message number one(1)… …….today at 3.45 p.m.
Hi, it's me. How's it going? I (2) ………………………you're at work and you don't have your phone on,
right? First of all, thank you, THANK YOU for the birthday card and message. I received it this morning.
That's so nice of you. I'm 3……………………… a little party for my birthday. It's nothing very big – only a
few of my best and (4)……………………… friends. That (5)………………………you too! We're going to
have it at my(6) ………………………house. She lives in the countryside in a (7)………………………big
house with a swimming pool. I'd love to see you (8) ………………………. It's going to be this Friday. I'll
send you the (9) ………………………on how to get there later, OK?
Anyway, have fun at work. Don't work (10) ………………………hard, OK? Talk soon.

TRUE/FALSE
1. Message number two, received today at 5.50 p.m. F
2. If you take the car, drive straight on Forest Road until you get to the motorway. T
3. Drive past Brownsville and take exit 13H. F
4. It's the first big house on the right. T
5. . Call me when you get there and somebody can pick you up in a bus . F(car)
received 2. Guess 3. organising 4.closest 5.means 6.cousin’s 7.nice 8.there 9 instructions 10 too
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2. Changing a meeting time

Lucy: Hi, Anna. Do you have a minute to talk about the (1)……………………………. next Tuesday?
Anna: Sure. We said 11, didn't we?
Lucy: Yeah, we did. But I have a (2) ……………………………. of a problem with the time. Would it be
(3) ……………………………. to move it?
Anna: Oh, I see. We could (4)………………… it to the afternoon, to 1 p.m., for example. Or bring it
forward to earlier in the morning. What would (5) ……………………………………you?
Lucy: Could we make it 9 o'clock? That would really help me. I have (6) ………………… important
meeting in the central office at 12.
Anna: No problem. It's important you're (7) ………………….
Lucy: Thanks a lot, Anna.
Anna: Do you need help with any (8) …………….………? Did you get the agenda I sent (9) …………….
………?
Lucy: Yes, I did. And no, that's all fine, thanks. My (10)……………………is ready and I'm looking forward
to presenting it.

1.meeting 2. Bit 3 possible 4 postpone 5 suit 6 another 7 there 8 preparation 9 out 10. Report
TRUE/FALSE
1. Lucy: I can tell Sven about the time change. T
2. Lucy will see her later. F(her)
3. I'll send an email to everyone to confirm the time has changed and with an updated
meeting invite. T
4. I'm not happy that works for you. F (not)
5. We really need you there and it's good we don't have to cancel it T

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3.Who's who in the office

Jani: Welcome to the (1)……………………………, Yuki. Let me show you around and tell you about
your new colleagues. I'll introduce you to them all later.
Yuki: Great. Thanks. So, who are those people over there?

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 Jani: That's the order (2)…………………….team. Luciana deals with the new orders. She's the one with
short, dark hair.

Yuki: In the purple dress?

Jani: Yeah, that's right. You'll (3)……………………work closely with her while you are learning about our
ordering(4)…………………...
Yuki: Got it, thanks. And who's that over there? The guy who's on the phone?
Jani: Oh, you mean the one by the(5)……………………….? In the green shirt? Ah, that's Ian. He's the
marketing director. And that's Maria beside him. She's responsible for the internal IT(6)
………………………..
Yuki: OK, I'll try to remember all of this. I should probably be taking(7)………………………..!
Jani: Don't worry about it. For now it's just (8)…………………………. to put some faces to names.
Yuki: OK, great – and who do I talk to about setting up my mobile phone with email(9)
……………………….? Is that also Maria?
Jani: No, you need to talk to Sebastian who works in (10)…………………………………... He can help
you. That's him over there, next to the printer.

Yuki: Thanks. I'll introduce myself to him later.

1. Department 2. Management 3. Probably 4. Process 5. Window 6. Systems 7. Notes 8. Good 9. Access
10. ommunications

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4. Understanding an explanation
TRUE /FALSE
1. The profesor talked about Fibonacci numbers in the lecture. T
2. They hope this isn't a silly question. T
3. Fibonacci was a European mathematician in the Middle Ages. T
4. The Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of letters and numbers. .F (numbers)
5. They go 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, A and so on. F A>8

1. Works 2.plus. 3. Fourth 4. Sequence 5. Importance 6. Explain 7. Things 8. Common 9. Plants 10.
examples
Professor: OK. This is how it (1) ………………………... The first number is 1, then 1 again, then 2. The
third number is the first number (2) ………………………..the second number. The fourth number is the
second number plus the third number: 1 plus 2 is 3. The fifth number is the third number, 2, plus the. (3)
……………..…..number, 3. So the fifth number in a Fibonacci(4)…….. ………………is 5.
Student: Ah! I think I understand now. But what about their(5)………………………..? You said these were
very important.

Professor: Yes, let me(6)…………………….. This sequence of numbers is important because we see it in
many(7)…………………. Fibonacci numbers are (8)………………………..in geometry, they are common
in nature, for example in(9)………………….. We see the sequence everywhere.

Student: Could you give us some more (10)……………………..?

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5.Work–life balance
1. author. 2. Balance 3. Concept 4. Traditional 5. Private 6. Sometimes 7. overtime.8. environments 9.
Weekend 10. lives
Presenter: Good morning, everyone. On today's show, we've got Chris Svensson with us, the (1)
……………………..of No more nine to five, the new best-selling book about work–life (2)
……………………..in the current working world. Good morning, Chris. Thanks for coming.
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Chris: Thanks for having me, Anna.
Presenter: So, Chris, tell us about your book and how the (3)……………… of a work–life balance has been
changing?
Chris: Well, in the more (4)………………………..workplaces, people's working lives and their (5)
……………………………lives are, or were, clearly divided. People often work from nine in the morning
until five or six in the evening. People (6)……………………………..stay late in the office and work in the
evenings. This is called working (7) …………………………….
Presenter: OK, and what else?
Chris: Well, in these (8)………………………………it isn't common for people to work at the (9)
………………………… or while they're on holiday. They can clearly separate their working lives and their
private…………………..

TRUE /FALSE

1. the evenings, weekends and holidays are free to focus on non-work areas of life.T
2. It's important and healthy to spend all your time just working, right? F(NOT TO)
3. for a start, most people can now access their work emails from their mobile phones. T
4. They are more likely to quickly reply to an important mail in the morning or at the weekend. F evening
5. This new mobility brings a lot of disadvantages with it. F advantages

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6. A phone call from a customer

Junko: Hello, Junko Mori speaking. How can I help you?

Andrea: Hi, Junko, it's Andrea here from Red Band. I'm calling about our (1) ……………..order.

Junko: Everything arrived OK, right? We got the delivery confirmation at our (2)………..…………

Andrea: Yes, everything's fine with the order. I'm calling about the invoice and the (3)……………….terms.
I need a favour.
Junko: A favour? What do you need?
Andrea: This is a little, er ...(4).............., but I need an extension on the payment terms. I (5)……………
they're usually 30 days, but we're having some cash flow(6)……………….. You'd really be helping us out if
you could extend it to 60 days.
Junko: I'm not sure if I can do that, Andrea. We've got(7)………………. at our end, and also have to (8)
………….our own cash flow.
Andrea: I promise this won't (9)…………………..the norm, Junko.
Actually, I also want to (10) …………….another new order. The same size order as last time.

1. latest 2. end. 3 payment 4 difficult5. know 6. Problems 7. Regulations8. manage 9. Become 10 place

TRUE/FALSE

1.It's not for an important customer and they pay on delivery. F (it’s for)
2. Her cash flow problem will not be solved after this new order is delivered. F (will be)
3. Junko thinks they can make an exception this time. T
4. It works both ways.T
5.Junko keeps an eye out for it. Talk to you soon. T

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7. A weather forecast
1. most of the rain from the weekend has appeared .F disappeared
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2. They'll all clear up by lunchtime, though.T
3. mostly dry through until Thursday.T
4. It's such good news for the north-west this week,.F (not)
5. Some of today's showers will be heavy.T
Leeds will escape the thunderstorms, with drizzle and light rain only throughout the rest of the day and
tonight.
1. dry 2, towards 3. Bright 4. Throughout 5. Appearing 6. degrees. 7. unfortunately, 8. Scotland 9. Coast 10.
change

Elsewhere it becomes …………….today, but with some foggy patches (2)………………… Wales. In
England, tomorrow morning will see a dry, (3)……………..start in most places, with high temperatures(4)
……………….. the week. We might see one or two thunderstorms (5)………………………as the week
goes on, with temperatures everywhere at 29 to 30 (6)……………………

By the weekend, (7)…………………the dry weather will make way for mostly cloudy skies and rain. The
rain will move from(8)…………………, down towards the north and reach the south(9)
……………………….. by Saturday afternoon. Temperatures, at least, will stay mostly warm at around 21
degrees for the weekend. It might feel like a nice (10)…………………..from the high twenties and early
thirties we'll see in the week. That's all from me until tomorrow. Enjoy the mini-heatwave while you can!

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8. A talk about motivation

1. We offer incentives when we want people to do things.T
2. We do it at work, at school, even at home with our friends .F( kids)
3. He offered one group a reward for finishing fast.T
4. Five dollars for anyone finishing in the top 15 per cent and 20 dollars for the person who finished the
fastest of all. F (25 per cent)
5. he told them he was going to use their times to calculate an average time.T

1. faster2. Thought 3. Made 4. Results 5. Promotions 6. Wood 7. Complex 8. Opposite 9. Performed 10.
creatively
The first group, the ones with the reward, solved the problem (1)……………………….you'd think, right?
Well, no, they actually took three and a half minutes longer than the group who just (2)
…………………………they were being timed. Incentive didn't work. In fact, it (3)………………………
them slower. This experiment has been repeated, with the same(4)………………………., many times. But
in business we still offer bonuses, (5)…………………………and rewards to staff.

That's fine if we want them to do something simple, like chop wood. We'll pay you more if you chop the (6)
…………………….faster. An incentive works then. But if we want someone to do something(7)
………………………., something creative, something where they have to think, rewards don't work. They
might even have the (8)………………………result, and make people perform worse. Another study, by Dan
Ariely, showed that the bigger the reward, the worse the subjects (9)………………………………….on a
complex task. The reward made them focus so hard on the result that they couldn't think (10)
…………………………..any more.

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9. Film reviews
Obviously, this is the sequel to Fun in the City, which is a film I didn't like so it's fair to say my expectations
were (1)……………………. So, you could say I wasn't disappointed, as it met my expectations. It was(2)
………………………! I'd rather not spend any more time on it by talking about it. But, that wouldn't be a

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film review and I think I(3)…………………… you all a review to save you wasting your money going to
see it.

So, it starts off with this big wedding(4)……………………. And, I won't go into why, but the whole scene
is just there so they can make this one joke. It's not even a funny(5)………………….... it's just, ah, it's just
terrible. It's got nothing to do with the rest of the film. Anyway, it starts there. Then, instead of the (6)
………………….………..and the plot staying in New York where the original film was set, one of them
wins a (7)……………………….to India and decides to take all her friends. It's what directors do when
they've run out of (8)…………………… let's take our characters on tour!

Anyway, they gossip, cry and shop, and they (9)………………………this until the end. No real people
would ever act like this. I didn't have any sympathy for their (10)………………………….or even care what
happened to them.

1.Low 2. Awful 3. Owe 4. Scene 5. Joke 6. Characters 7. Ticket 8. Ideas 9. Repeat 10 problems
1. The world doesn't need 13 of these films. F (three)
2. For everyone else, this is a film fans have been waiting 9 years to see. F (10)
3. I'd seen the posters and they didn't look right. T
4. And I wasn't sure about the actors they cast either. T
5. One thing I really liked about it was the price .F (pace)
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10. Talking about rumours

1. fire 2. Personal 3. Full 4. Stories 5. Directly 6. Threatening 7. Project 8. Mention 9. Repeated10.
planning
Will: Kiera, have you heard John isn't coming back and they might even(1) ………………..him?

Kiera: No! I knew he was away but I thought it was for (2)……………………reasons?

Will: I'm pretty sure that's not the (3)……………………..story. Have you ever worked with him?

Kiera: A long time ago, but … well, I've heard (4)……………………….about him for years.

Will: I've never worked with him (5)……………………but I know people that have and they say he was
always shouting and screaming, (6)………………………..to fire people. And Susanne told me he took
credit for one of her ideas. She had this idea for a (7)……………………..and she brought it up at the
monthly creative workshop and he liked it – everybody did. But she saw the notes from the meeting and
there was no(8) ……………………….of her name anywhere. John had agreed with her and (9)
……………………………..some of the things she said and the notes made it look like they were his ideas
in the first place. He made her do all the work (10)……………………………it, then when the project
actually got started – it was that cars one – Susanne was moved to something else.

TRUE/FALSE
1. Susanne didn't get to share it – there was zero recognition of her contribution.T
2. it's not almost impossible to report people who are as high up as John is, or was. F(bo not)
3. People were not genuinely afraid of him.F (bor Not)
4. there was a whole team of people working with him.T
5. And if he were out, life got very difficult. T
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11. A business interview

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 Presenter: Welcome to today's show. We're very happy to have Anna Oliveira as our guest today. Anna
is the creator and (1)……founder……………..of HomeworkX – spelled with an 'x' we should note –
an app which helps (2)…………teenagers………………with their homework. Thanks for coming in,
Anna.
Anna: Thanks for having me.
Presenter: So, tell us about your app. How does it work?
Anna: Well, teenagers and their parents have numerous (3)…………challenges………….when it comes to
homework these days. In many families both parents work and don't have much (4)…………
available…………….time to help their kids with their homework. And even if they do have time to help,
they may not be able to (5)………offer……….support with the content. What I mean is, they may not know,
or at least remember, enough in any given (6)………subject…………..to support.

Presenter: You mean they might not be able to remember complex (7)…………maths………….or might
have never studied certain subjects, such as (8)……………biology………………or economics, themselves?

Anna: Exactly. So they might want to support their children with their homework, but have (9)…………
neither……………the time nor the (10)………knowledge…………………..to do so.
1. founder 2. Teenagers 3. Challenges 4. Available 5. Offer 6. Subject 7. Maths 8. Biology 9. Neither 10.
Knowledge

TRUE/FALSE
1. The next issue is that tutors can be expensive.T
2. Our HomeworX app brings students and tutors together offline. F online
3. They don't need to be in the same town or city. T
4. And this approach also enables us to offer the tutoring services at lower prices.T
5. tutors who live in remote areas are not happy to get access to more students. F(bỏ NOT)

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12. Instructions for an assignment

1. essay 2. Broke 3. Reply 4. Office 5. Reference 6. Page 7. Order 8. Read 9. Fine 10. page
I want to explain a few things about your(1)………essay………...

First of all, the deadline. The deadline for this essay is October the 18th. Not the 19th, not the 28th, not two
days later because your dog was ill or your computer (2)………broke…………..– the 18th. If it's late, I
won't mark it. I won't even read it – you'll fail the assignment! So, please hand it in on time. You can even
hand it in early, if you like!

You can email me the essays at [email protected]. That's H-A-R-T-S-H-O-R-N. I'll reply to say I've got
it. If I don't (3)………reply…………within a day, it might mean I didn't get it, so please email me again to
make sure. You can also bring a paper copy of the essay to my(4)……office……………, but let's be kind to
the trees, OK? Email is better for the trees and for me.

Don't forget that you must (5)………reference………….every idea or quote you use that isn't your own
idea. And the last (6)………page…………of your essay should be a list of all the books you used, in
alphabetical(7)……order……….., not in the order you used them!

And lastly, make it easy for me to(8)………read…………! That means use a clear font. Arial is best, but
Times New Roman is (9)………fine………..too. Not Comic Sans please! Size 12 font for the essay, and size
14 for the titles and subheadings. And use (10)………page………….numbers. Any questions?
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13.A design presentation
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Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming to this short presentation on our new 1.………
product………….design. As you know, we've already redeveloped our 'Adventure'
shampoo to make it more2……mordern……………..and appealing. And we've renamed it
'Adventure Tech'. Our market
research 3…………established……………the target market as men in the 18–40 age
range who like to be outdoors and also like 4………technical……………gadgets, such as
smartwatches, drones and things like that. We needed to create a bottle
which5…………appeals……………. to that market.
So, today, I'm happy to unveil our new bottle6……design………………... As you can see,
it's designed to look like a black7………metal……………….. drinking flask, with some
digital features printed on it.I'd like to talk you 8………………through…………..the
following three points: the key features, sizing and our timeline for 9…………
production…………………. Firstly, you'll notice it has an ergonomic design. That means it
fits smoothly into your hand and can be 10……easily…………opened and squeezed
using one hand.
1. product 2. Modern3. Established 4. Technical 5. Appeals6. Design 7. Metal
8. Through 9.10production. 10. Easily
TRUE/FALSE
1.it looks like a flask you might use when hiking indoors. F(OUTDOORS) – LOL
Hiking “Indoor”
2.. It comes in two sizes: the regular size and a small travel size. T
3.The travel size is the same type of design – a flask, also with imitation digital
displays on the bottle. T
4.We were thinking of starting with one and following with the travel-size in 5
months.F (a few)
5.In preparation for that, we're starting the marketing campaign 2 next month.
F(next)
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14.A digital detox podcast

Presenter: So, we're 1.………back…………….in the studio. Welcome back, everyone.
My name's Rick Walker. From our laptops to our televisions, from the 2………
display……………….on our smartphones to those on our satnavs, we are in front of
screens all the time. Have you ever 3………wonder……………what it would be like to
disconnect4……………completely…………….? To choose not to have access to the
internet? If you have, you may be in need of a digital detox – a 5…………
total……………switch-off from all things digital. The idea of people taking a digital
detox is becoming more and more popular,6…………espeacialy…………… amongst
young people – and today we're joined by someone who's 7………………………….a
number of digital detox activities and is here to give us some
8……………………….about it. Amanda Vince, welcome to the studio.
Amanda: Thank you very much.

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Presenter: So, Amanda, you work for a 9……………………..magazine in London, right?
I guess your work means you need to be 10………………………….a lot.
1. back 2. Displays 3. Wondered 4, completely 5. Total 6. Especially 7. Tried 8. Advice
9. Fashion 10. Online
TRUE/FALSE
1.. I also need to be very active online.T
2.There's my colleagues and family to keep in touch with online too.F (friends)
3. friends and work colleagues aren't two totally separate groups of people .T
4. I think I'm online for 12 hours a day.F (at least 12)Why these guys keep reset
Sundial??
5. The author's name is Blake Snow. T
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