Professional Documents
Culture Documents
PART ONE
(Upper Intermediate level Listening 14.2)
Listen to someone being interviewed about business technology and tick the best ending to
sentences 21-25 according to what the speaker says. Listen twice.
Intermediate
- What do you do in your free time? Do you find it hard to balance work with your private life?
- Does your company have a brand? How important is it to the company? What words do you
think customers associate with your brand?
- How often do you travel for your work? What kind of differences in culture have you noticed
between your country and other countries?
- Who are your competitors? How do you compare in terms of quality? Do you ever receive
complaints from customers? What about?
- Tell me about recent trends in your company and your predictions for its future performance.
- How would you define good leadership? Tell me about your worst or best boss.
Upper Intermediate
- How important is communication in your job? What makes a good communicator? Why does
communication break down between people?
- What makes people successful at work? How would you define success at work or in life?
- What kinds of risk do you take at work? Are you naturally a risk-taker or do you like to plan
carefully? Are there any risks or plans at work that you now regret? What happened?
- What are ways of borrowing money in your country for a business? What kind of financial
risks are attached to each method?
- What kind of effect has Internet and e-commerce had on your life? Does your company have a
website? How does it make use of it? Do you think online business has improved customer
service or made it worse?
Advanced
- How often do you have to make presentations? What are they about? What are some tips you
would give to someone having to make a presentation for the first time?
- How much involvement does your organisation have in the public sector such as with
government organisations or local council? Do you think business and the public sector can
work together? Is this common in your country?
- Does your government give the private sector enough freedoms? What initiatives exist to help
and encourage new business in your country?
- What are some of the biggest changes in working practices in recent years? How much has
your business been affected by globalisation? What has the impact been on areas such as
employment?
- Have you ever considered working freelance or as a consultant? What would the benefits be?