Test Your Business English [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Since English is the international language of business, a knowledge of English business terms is essential for successful business people, even if their main function is not in international trade. This book, part of the Test Your Vocabulary series, is designed to help the reader to acquire this knowledge. The choice of which language items to include has been made on a practical basis: how often the words are used, and how important it is to know them. Informal (and, in one instance, spoken) language is included, with tests of appropriacy in register; some words appear in more than one context. The areas of business covered range from basic office practice to specialised areas such as import/export and insurance. A range of exercise types, including gap-filling, multiple choice, dialogue completion, crosswords, anagrams, etc., is provided to stimulate and help the reader to internalise the vocabulary. TO THE STUDENT You will not necessarily wish or need to test yourself in all the areas of business covered in this book. But in order for the new words to become "fixed" in your mind, you need to test yourself again and again. We suggest that you: 1 Read the instructions carefully and try the test (writing your answers in pencil and checking them). 2 Correct any mistakes and pay special attention to words which caused you difficulty or that you got wrong. 3 Wait five or ten minutes, then try the test again. (Cover your answers or get a friend to read out the questions.) 4 Repeat this until you know all the words. 5 Now rub out your answers and try the test again the next day; again, pay special attention to any words which cause difficulty. 6 Make sure that you try the test again at least twice within the next month; this should "fix" most of the words in your mind. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I owe a debt of gratitude to Peter Watcyn-Jones, who devised the Test Your Vocabulary series, and whose Advice to the Student is used, almost unchanged, here. He has read the final manuscript and made many helpful suggestions. I also owe a particular debt of thanks to Jake Allsop, who has commented in detail on every test and has improved most immensely. (Any remaining mistakes are my own.)