Practice Listening Business English Exercises for A2 – Performance

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1)
Listen to five people talking about their employers. Which aspects of the company’s performance is each person evaluating?
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Listen again and complete sentences 1-5 with the adjectives from the list.
poor excellent satisfactory encouraged average disappointing
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It’s very – I really thought I had a big future here.
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And we were by the big fall in serious injuries last year.
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We’ve had a really year, much better than we expected.
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It’s been a very performance – things can only get better!
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I think we’ve had a year, but our CEO says our performance has been very .

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1)
Listen to Raul and Lionel talking at a sales conference. Where do they work? When did they arrive there?
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Listen again. Underline the correct form in italics. Which verbs are in the past simple, and which are in the present perfect?
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We opened / have opened our first sales office in 2012.
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We had / have had disappointing results for the first two years.
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Since 2014, our business increased / has increased by nearly 20%.
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I was / ‘ve been in Dubai for three years now.
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My wife and children moved / have moved here last year.

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29th June, 5.55 p.m. GMT. World Stock Markets Summary
Index	Value	Change	%
Nikkei	20,235.73	+ 126.57	+ %
FTSE 100	6,561.21	–	– 0.89 %
DAX	10,968.05	–	– %
Dow Jones	17,596.35	–	– 1.95%
Nasdaq		– 122.04	– 2.4%

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1)
Listen to the presentation and label the graph with the names of the countries from the list.
Japan USA Germany China
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Decide if the verbs in the table describe an upward movement (↑), a downward movement (↓) or no change (↔). Then listen again and check.

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