Practice Your Business English: Vocabulary Quiz

Workplace communication. Vocabulary quiz. Part one. Multiple choice. For each of the following questions, choose the answer that best completes the question or statement. Ready to begin? Question one. What is an agenda? A record of employee salaries. A list of topics to discuss at a meeting. A request to cancel a project. A report about past sales. A list of topics to To discuss at a meeting. Question two. If you clarify an idea, you make it easier to understand, remove it from the discussion, disagree with it strongly, translate it into many languages. Make it easier to understand. Question three. Please, that you received my email. Interrupt, delegate, confirm, negotiate. Confirm. Question four. A deadline is the marker that ends the meeting, a problem that cannot be The time by which work must be done. A break during the workday. The time by which work must be done or finished. Question five. A manager may delegate a task by completing it without help, assigning it to another person, delaying it indefinitely, explaining why it is unnecessary, assigning it to another person. Question six. Which employee is working efficiently and completes accurate work in time? Noah repeats every task several times. Lina often loses important documents. Omar attends meetings without preparing and completes accurate work in time. Question seven. Your boss gives you feedback when he changes your work schedule, introduces you to a client, asks you to lead a meeting, comments on how you perform, comments on how you performed. Question eight. A flexible schedule can never be changed. Changes every few minutes. Allows some changes when needed. Requires everyone to work on time. Allows some changes when needed. Question 9. When you interrupt someone, you Speak before the person has finished. Ask the person to explain something. Take notes while the person speaks. Respond after the person finishes. Speak before the person has finished. Question 10. The two companies will negotiate the price. This means they will Discuss it to reach an agreement Announce it without discussion Keep it secret from their customers Refuse to communicate about it Discuss it to reach an agreement Question 11 Everyone should participate in the discussion. This means everyone should Leave before it begins Take part and be involved Listen without responding Write a separate report Take part and be involved. Question 12. Our main objective is to improve customer service. Here, objective means difficulty, expense, opinion, goal. Question 13. If safety is our top priority, safety is our most important concern, our least expensive option, our newest employee benefit, our final discussion topic, our most important concern. Question 14. I would like to propose a new training program. This means I want to Criticize or speak badly of it. Introduce it for consideration. Cancel it immediately. Pay for it personally. Introduce it for consideration. Question 15. We need to reschedule Tuesday's meeting. We need to Hold it in secret. Invite more people. Move it to a different time. Shorten its agenda. Move it to a different time. Part 2. Matching. These are questions 16 through 20. Match the words on the right with the definitions on the left. Pause the video and take as much time as you need to answer these questions. Here are the answers. Give new or more recent information. Update. Help by providing ideas, effort, or resources. Contribute. Settle a problem or disagreement. Resolve. Paraphrase the main points concisely. Summarize. Reach an agreement with each side giving up something. Compromise. 3. Fill in the blank. Here are the words. Urgent. Solution. Strategy. Relevant. Responsibility. Pause the video and take as much time as you need for these questions. Here are the answers. 21. Please include only information that is directly relevant to the topic. 22. Checking the report is my responsibility, so I will do it before sending it. 23. Moving the event indoors may be the best solution to the problem. 24. Our marketing strategy explains how we plan to attract new customers. 25. This request is urgent, so we must handle it immediately. How'd you do? Did you get them all right? Are you ready for your next business meeting? For more practice, check out the following pages. Speaking extension. In groups, plan a short team meeting. Use at least five target words and include the meeting's objective, one important priority, a task to delegate, a possible problem and solution, a final deadline. Take as much time as you would like to discuss these items. And please take a look at our video on business English expressions. See the link below. Hope that was helpful. For more information, check out our channel and website, youtube.com, at englishfree4u, eslgold.com, and englishvdo.com. Thanks for watching.