Preliminary (Business A2) test

Fill in the missing words.

1. My phone number is double oh, two four, double six oh double oh, three four, double six oh .
2. My emergency contact number is five three, double seven, eight three, six one five three, double seven, eight three, one six .
3. My email is capital A capital H , lower case a-l-e-k, at lower case g-e-f dot com.
4. My passport number is one seven, eight three, four nine, double oh, double four one seven, eight three, nine four, double oh, double four .
5. My email is all lowercase w-a-l-t-e-r w-a-t-t-e-r , hyphen, capital Y, lowercase o-g-a, @ all lowercase g-u-r-u dot com.

Fill in the missing words.

1. We start work at quarter past seven half past seven in the morning.
2. They go home at half past four quarter past four .
3. She arrives at twelve to two twenty to two in the afternoon.
4. It finishes at eleven fifty eleven forty this evening.
5. The meeting is at ten past eight eight past ten tomorrow evening.

Fill in the missing words.

1. We can visit the new client on the twenty-first twenty-third of May.
2. It’s Mike’s seventy-fifth seventeen-fifth birthday tomorrow.
3. Our new office is on eightieth eighteenth street.

Fill in the missing words.

4. I start my new job on the Twenty-first Twenty-second of July.
5. We open our Thirty-fourth Thirty-fifth shop next week.
6. The project finishes on the third of October twenty twenty-four twenty twenty-three .

Complete the sentences with the present form of the verbs in brackets.

Example 0 David manages (David / manage) a team of six people.

1. Where you do work do you work (you / work)?
2. What does your company do your company does (your company / do)?
3. A: Does Sandra design everything? B: No, doesn't design don't design (she / not / design) the product specifications.
4. Our sales manager does answer Our sales manger answers (our Sales Manager / answer) a lot of phone calls.
5. We don't sell We doesn't sell (we / not / sell) many products in the USA.

Rewrite the sentences using the past.

0. I visit new customers every week. I visited new customers every week.

1. I sent sended (send) emails every day.
2. I went gone (go) on holiday in August.
3. I didn't talk didn't talked (don’t talk) to customers very often.
4. John checked not didn't check (doesn’t check)the invoices.
5. Did you knew Did you know (Do) you (know) Mr Brown?

Complete the sentences with the comparative or the superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.

Example:Our new office is bigger than (big) the old one.

The coffee machine in the shop is gooder better best (good) than the machine we have here.

Complete the sentences with the comparative or the superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.

Example:Our new office is bigger than (big) the old one.

Our Brazilian market is larger largest most large (large) than the Mexican market.

Choose the correct word.


0. My (full name) is Schmidt. My full name is Karl Schmidt.

1. My zip code title is 80303. That’s in the Boulder area.
2. They remembered entered the wrong spelling on the system.
3. Do you have your passport number nationality ?
4. Do you live very far short from here?
5. I cancelled checked an email before I arrived.
6. I didn’t remember the hotel’s address, but I found searched it online.
7. We did made a phone call to a client yesterday.
8. I have give a meeting later today.
9. I work for Nanotech. We work design software programs.
10. It’s a Brazilian Brazil company.

Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

Example: My colleague 0 (receives) a lot of phone calls every day from our manager, Bob Muller. Mr. Muller works checks receives sends has on important projects and travels a lot to different countries. We all work in the finance department. Mr Muller has works receives checks sends a lot of meetings. He talks about future plans for the company. I help Mr Muller to write reports. He checks works makes receives sends the reports for mistakes and then he sends has makes receives checks them to the CEO in New York by email. My colleague sends has receives checks makes phone calls to the different regional directors to discuss our ideas.

Match the first half of the sentences (1–5) with the second half answers (A–F).

Example

0. He talked E ( to the wrong person)

1. I’m waiting A an invoice for the money last week. B the report this afternoon. C for an email from a supplier. D the client about the problem. E to the wrong person, I think. F to the wrong office this morning.
2. My manager is writing A an invoice for the money last week. B the report this afternoon. C for an email from a supplier. D the client about the problem. E to the wrong person, I think. F to the wrong office this morning.
3. I went A an invoice for the money last week. B the report this afternoon. C for an email from a supplier. D the client about the problem. E to the wrong person, I think. F to the wrong office this morning.
4. We issued A an invoice for the money last week. B the report this afternoon. C for an email from a supplier. D the client about the problem. E to the wrong person, I think. F to the wrong office this morning.
5. We need to notify A an invoice for the money last week. B the report this afternoon. C for an email from a supplier. D the client about the problem. E to the wrong person, I think. F to the wrong office this morning.

Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

Example

0. John writes the (minutes) of our meetings.

1. Our office move is on at the 21st June.
2. We need to arrange order a visit to the new offices as soon as possible.
3. I didn’t answer approve the contract because there was a mistake.
4. We will offer a range of international food in our canteen takeaway next week.
5. Please connect contact our new client and say that we can visit them next week.
6. I won’t be here for the transit delivery of the new equipment arriving next week.
7. There’s a problem with our order supply for ten new laptops.
8. We often have problems with this company – this is the three third time now.
9. I think finding a different company is easier easiest than trying to continue with the same one.
10. We supply supplement printers to lots of companies.