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Practice Listening Business English Exercises for B1 – Business strategy

6 ejercicios

1. Exercise 1

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  • A. Look at the diagram below. What do you think PEST means? Listen to the first part of a lecture on business strategy and complete only the four headings in the diagram.
  • B. Listen again and answer the questions.
  • 1)
    What do the four factors have in common?
  • 2)
    How can PEST analysis be extended to include two more factors?
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C. Listen to the second part of the lecture and complete the speaker’s examples (1-8) in the diagram. Use a maximum of three words in each gap.

E. In the third part of the lecture, the speaker will talk about what happens after a company collects data. In which order do you think the speaker will mention these tasks? Listen and check.

a Come up with a strategy to deal with risks.

b Identify any business opportunities.

c Prioritise the most relevant factors.

d Identify any significant risks to the business.

F. Listen again. What were the examples of an opportunity and a risk?

2. Exercise 2

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  • A. Listen to Roel Jansen, who works as Head of Sales for a furniture company in the Netherlands. He has called a meeting with his sales team to discuss an urgent problem. Answer the questions.
  • 1)
    What is the problem?
  • 2)
    What could happen if the problem is not solved?
  • 3)
    Which three possible solutions are suggested by team members?

B. Listen to the end of the meeting and answer the questions.

1 What is the decision?

2 Who has to do what, and by when?

3 When will the problem be solved?

3. Exercise 3

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  • A. Listen to a recent business news report about the supermarket industry. Which strategies is each company pursuing?

4. Test

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  • 1)
    Listen to the speaker and choose the correct answer a, b or c.
  • 1)
    a b c
  • 2)
    a b c
  • 3)
    a b c
  • 4)
    a b c
  • 5)
    a b c

5. You will hear eight short recordings twice. For questions 1–8 choose the correct option.

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  • 2)
    You will hear eight short recordings twice. For questions 1–8 choose the correct option.
  • 1)
    Which food product is the company going to launch?
  • 2)
    What happened to the share price last week?
  • 3)
    What kind of staff is the company going to recruit?
  • 4)
    What percentage of sales was in India?
  • a 5%
  • b 15%
  • c)
    35%
  • 5)
    What is the woman going to do?
  • a)
    write a job description
  • b)
    complete a job application
  • c)
    design a job advertisement
  • 6)
    What must the new employee do now?
  • a)
    learn about company procedures
  • b)
    have a meeting with her boss
  • c)
    go to the HR office immediately
  • 7)
    Which factor caused problems for the company?
  • a)
    new regulations
  • b)
    economic problems
  • c)
    weather conditions
  • 8)
    What does the man want to do?
  • a)
    train existing UK call centre staff
  • b)
    recruit more staff for UK call centre
  • c)
    have a call centre in another country
Business strategy test 1
Business strategy test 2 a
Business strategy test 2 b
Business strategy test 2 c
Business strategy test 3

6. Listen to a part of a radio interview with Flavio Petrozzi about his export consultancy business. Choose the correct answer a, b or c.

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  • 3)
    Listen to a part of a radio interview with Flavio Petrozzi about his export consultancy business. Choose the correct answer a, b or c.
  • 1)
    The export consultancy can
  • a)
    help to set up new companies.
  • b)
    improve management skills.
  • c)
    help new and existing exporters.
  • 2)
    Mr Petrozzi’s consultants
  • a)
    have a great deal of export experience.
  • b)
    know a lot about being successful.
  • c)
    like working in other countries.
  • 3)
    Mr Petrozzi says that exporting for the first time can be
  • a)
    exciting.
  • b)
    scary.
  • c)
    costly.
  • 4)
    What is the first thing a consultant will look at?
  • a)
    product research
  • b)
    target markets
  • c)
    costs and finances
  • 5)
    Mr Petrozzi says planning
  • a)
    is generally very expensive.
  • b)
    succeeds if it is comprehensive.
  • c)
    helps a company avoid errors.
  • 6)
    What does Mr Petrozzi say about customers today?
  • a)
    They want the sales offices and warehouses in their country.
  • b)
    They need customer services in their own country.
  • c)
    They expect to receive their orders quickly.
  • 7)
    What does he say about export paperwork?
  • a)
    The consultants will organise all that.
  • b)
    Constant updating of systems is important.
  • c)
    It costs a lot to get all the necessary documents.

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