Practice Listening Business English Exercises for A2 – Company facts

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Name of group	ASSA ABLOY
Products	(1) l and (2) s s
Competitors	(3) E C, Ingersoll-Rand, and Master Lock
Nationality	(4) S
Number of employees	(5) ,000
Revenue	(6) €billion
International operations	(7) over countries, (8) companies
Name of the subsidiary	(9) B

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1)
Listen and make a note of three interesting facts about Nestlé. Compare with your partner.
2)
Listen again and answer questions 1-9.
1)
How old is the company?
2)
What products does it produce?
3)
What is its annual revenue?
4)
Where is the head office?
5)
How many factories does it have?
6)
How many employees does it have?
7)
Is employee training important for the company?
8)
Does the company help local communities?
9)
Is it a green company?

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1)
Listen to the conversation. Write the information about the company.
Number of countries:
Number of factories:
Number of employees:
Annual sales:
2)
Listen again and complete the expressions for asking somebody to repeat the information.
1)
Sorry, can you ?
2)
Sorry, can you a bit ?
3)
Sorry, employees do you have?
4)
And your annual sales ?

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1)
Listen to Gianluca introducing himself to Carmen at a conference. Make notes about:
1)
Carmen’s nationality
2)
her job
3)
why she’s at the conference
2)
Complete what Gianluca says. Then listen again and check your answers.
1)
Excuse me. this seat free?
2)
Thanks very much. Can I myself? I’m Gianluca Donatelli.
3)
Nice to meet you , Carmen. Where are you ?
4)
And do you work for?
5)
Oh really? And what do you ?
6)
So are you at this conference?
7)
That’s interesting. A friend of mine works for an Italian service provider. Can I introduce to ?
8)
Roberto. Can you come here a minute? This isSorry, what’s your name ?
9)
Roberto. is Carmen. She’s writing an article on Internet service providers.
3)
Match questions 1-8 in 2 to Carmen’s responses a-h. Then listen and check.
1)
..c..
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
a I’m a journalist.
b Carmen. Carmen Sanchez.
c Yes, it is. Go ahead.
d Nice to meet you. I’m Carmen Sanchez.
e I’m here to research an article on Internet service providers.
f)
I don’t work for a company. I’m self-employed.
g Yes, of course. That would be nice.
h I’m from Argentina.

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