Professional language development

Write the nouns in the verb forms.

Nouns	Verbs
1 production product
2 providers, provision
3 development
4 marketing, market
5 advertisement

Use a verb or noun from the table to fill the gaps. (Use one noun twice.)

There are usually several different departments in a company, and they all need to work together to make the company successful. Companies

offer products or services to the consumer in a competitive ¹ _________. In the

manufacturing sector ² _____________development is a key activity.

Companies ³ ____________new products and launch them on

the ⁴ _____________. They try to keep the cost of ⁵ _____________low to

stay competitive. It is essential to ⁶ _____________the product and to tell the

consumer about it.

12 Make ten common business expressions with the words below. For example: sleeping partner, annual general meeting. Use some words more than once.

annual	company	exchange	meeting	private	stock
assets	unlimited	general	of	public	trader
board	debts	liability	partner	sleeping
business	directors	limited	personal	sole

13 What type of organization is each of these? Choose the right word from the box.

limited company partnership sole owner / freelancer public limited company corporation

1 A group of engineers who work together to provide consultancy and design services. There are no outside shareholders.

2 A large British engineering company with 30,000 employees. Its shares are bought and sold on the stock market.

3 An American engineering company with outside shareholders.

4 An engineer who works by herself providing consultancy. She works from home and visits clients in their offices.

5 An independent British engineering company with 20 employees. It was founded by three engineers, who are shareholders and directors of the company. There are five other shareholders who do not work for the company.

14 Complete a-g using each word around ‘ manage’ and ‘ organize’ from the box once only.

manager managing management managerial

organize organization organizational

a) Can you learn how to be a __________, or are you born one?

b) The company became a world-wide ___________ in just twenty years.

c) In Britain the Chief Executive Qfficer (CEO) is called the __________director.

d) An__________chart shows the structure of the entire company.

e) The firm went bankrupt because of bad __________.

f) I'd like you to ___________ those dies in alphabetical order, please.

g) It was the most difficult ___________ decision she had ever had to make.

Look at the department names in the box below.

Production Sales and Marketing Research and Development Finance Human Resources /Personnel

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