... knowledge of Englishvocabulary for Business and
Administration, you will find that the exercises in this book will help you. They are
particularly useful if:
If you want to make the most of the exercises ... in or around an English- speaking business
environment.
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Your work brings you into regular contact with English- speaking business people.
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You are planning to take a Business English examination ... vocabulary.
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Use a good general -English dictionary and a good business -English dictionary to
check the meanings of new words and expressions (but try to do the exercises first
before looking...
... academic contexts.
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Vocabulary sheet
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Don't...
... ________________ illustrator. She works for many different ________________.
a. freelance / customers b. free / clients c. freelance / clients
3. Anna is ________________.
a. self-employed b. self-working ... beneficiary
9. probate
10. conveyancing
a. (British English) a person qualified to act as a legal advocate,
especially in higher courts
b. a law firm
c. (British English) a person qualified to draw up wills, ... deceased to carry out the terms of a
will
f. the process of proving a will is genuine
g. (American English) a barrister
h. drawing up contracts for the buying and selling of houses
i. a person who...
... other (22) benefits / beneficiaries (including paid annual (23) leave /
holidays, free medical care, a company car, free meals in the cafeteria, etc) that you might
receive. If the (24) packet / ... under 18.
1
2
3 4
5
6
7 8
9
10 11
12
13 14
15
16
17
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19 20
21
22 23
24 25
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CHECK YOUR ENGLISHVOCABULARY FOR
LIVING
UK
Rawdon Wyatt
IN THE
A & C Black Ⴇ London
Page: Title:
1 - 2 Abbreviations
3 ... Would you be making a mistake if you called someone from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
&apos ;English& apos;?
8. What are the principal (capital) cities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
9....
... prison for this, or do
you think I'll _____ free?
This section looks at some common idioms and other expressions that are not included in
the main exercises elsewhere in this book.
Each of the ... be.
TRUE / FALSE
TRUE / FALSE
TRUE / FALSE
TRUE / FALSE
TRUE / FALSE
TRUE / FALSE
CHECK YOUR ENGLISHVOCABULARY FOR
PHRASAL VERBS
IDIOMS
Rawdon Wyatt
AND
A & C Black Ⴇ London
2. After fifteen ... I'm _____ broke again.
26. The children have been as good as _____ all morning.
28. You'll freeze to death in that jacket: it's _____ thin.
30. Everyone at the party was drunk except...
...
exactly alike.
15 Come on, children! time to get up! nearly breakfast time.
29
A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
EXERCISES 1
CONTENTS
Articles
PEG chapter I
1 Articles: a/an
2 Articles: the
3 Articles: ... the house?
In other English- speaking countries, however, the do forms are used almost exclusively. It
would therefore be possible to use do/did forms throughout the following exercises
(except ... now.
19 I . . . a very interesting conversation with the milkman when my
neighbour interrupted me.
20 English people always . . . roast beef for lunch on Sundays?
21 It is difficult to learn a foreign...
... Leisure, Travel and Tourism (0-7475-7222-4).
An idiom is an informal expression often used in spoken English. In many cases, the words
do not have their literal meaning (for example, to paint the town...
... could catch.
13. Some countries require visitors to provide a __________ to show that they are free from illness and
__________ diseases.
14. __________ diseases are dangerous diseases which ... and local
taxes.
5. Some museums have an __________ __________, but others let visitors in for free.
6. Travellers can avoid __________ __________ such as salmonella by only eating in reputable
restaurants ... and marmalade.
4. A traveller changing from one aircraft to another at an airport.
5. An American -English expression for a journey from one place to another and back again.
6. A system where letters...
... courseware
and then present the statistics for the courseware.
3.1 Vocabulary
We used the specialized vocabulary used in the
Test of English for International Communication
(TOEIC) because it is one ... certification tests in Japan. The vocabulary was
compiled by Chujo (2003) and Chujo et al. (2004),
who confirmed that the vocabulary was useful in
preparing for the TOEIC test. The vocabulary had
640 entries ... describe details on the courseware
we constructed from English Wikipedia.
2 Algorithm
We want to prepare efficient courseware for learning
a target vocabulary. We defined efficiency in terms
of the amount...
...
d~fferencei betwren lcgal English usage
in
the linrted
Stares
and
Englmd. All the
"ruts
highlight typical word cambinarrons.
The right-hand
page
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range
of
exercises
on
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reforms
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have eeccouragcd rhc
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of Engl~sh
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terms
are
used
so
frcquentlr that thcy
arc
in
p,cncral
English
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or
set
up
a
computer
blog
to
shpru ldcar air11 others %,anring
tn
derclop rheu legal English ~~cah~l~~y through pncficc.
In
rhe
classroom, thc
Over
to
you acrivirica
can
he...
... Northern
Ireland 12. Scotland 13. birthday 14. George's
15. England 16. white with a red cross (the English flag,
or the flag of St George: do not confuse this with the
more familiar Union flag, which ... Stores),
Debenhams, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer (often
shortened to Marks or M and S in spoken English) .
Places to eat: Ask, Beefeater, Harvester, Little Chef.
Airlines: British Airways, BMIbaby, ... (pages 27 – 28)
Across
:
5. Wimbledon 6. holiday 7. National Trust 10. library
11. exhibitions 15. freeview 18. Prevention / Cruelty
23. footpaths 24. Grand National 25. damage
26. museums / galleries
Down
:
1....