Corresponding definitions.

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Make the matching of the words and phrases from the text with their

Language focus

Listening 1

Decide whether the following statements are true or false.

Comprehension / interpretation

1. Before taking a routine decision managers must collect a great deal of information.

2. When choosing an overseas agent most managers rely on their intuition.

3. When a firm dismisses one of its junior managers it is making a strategic decision.

4. Managers cannot always wait until they have all the necessary information before taking important decisions.

5. The first thing managers must do when solving a problem is to collect all the facts.

6. Because of their company's rules and policies managers may not be able to take certain actions in order to solve a problem.

7. After collecting all of the necessary information managers have to identify the various actions they could take to solve a problem.

8. When important decisions have to be made managers need to use a systematic process of decision-making.

You will hear the managers of a retail group discussing problems at their store in Paris. Listen to them, discuss their problems. If you were the managers of their company, what steps you would take to revive the company.

1) an idea basing on feeling rather than a) constraint

on reason or facts

2) consider carefully, assess b) secure a contract

3) immediately, without delay c) introduce

4) put into practice, fulfil d) option

5) take a middle course of action e) judgment

6) watch carefully f) arise

7) important matter g) update

8) bear in mind, consider, remember h) hunch, gut-feeling

9) to get as the result of effort i) weigh up

10) build, establish j) on the spot

11) specialize in k) locate, set up

12) launch the product l) upgrade.

13) firm's growth m) take into account

14) make better n) compromise

15) choice, possible course of action o) produce

16) opinion p) monitor

17) occur, appear q) issue

18) restriction, limit r) implement

19) modernize s) concentrate on

20) manufacture t) expansion