BTS CI (commerce international) anglais

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Unit Test 3

Answer all thirty questions. There is one mark per question. V

VOCABULARY: DESCRIBING CHANGE

1. Add a prefix from A to a word from B to make verbs connected with change, and complete definitions 1–10.

A

down- de- up- re-

B

Train size regulate

organise locate launch

grade develop

centralise assess

1_decentralise_: to move responsibility, services or jobs away from a central place to several

different smaller places.

2__reassess_: to think about something again carefully in order to decide whether to

change your opinion or judgement about it.

3_upgrade_: to make a computer, machine, or piece of software better and able to do more things.

4_downsize__: to reduce the number of employees and levels of management that a

company has.

5__redevelop_: to make an area more modern by putting in new buildings or changing or

repairing the old ones.

6__relaunch_: to start or present a product again in a new or different way, often involving

changes in advertising, packaging, etc.

7__retrain__: to learn new skills or to teach someone the skills needed to do a different job.

8__deregulate_: to reduce the number of government controls on a particular business

activity, done to make companies work more effectively and to increase

competition.

9__relocate_: to move to a different place.

10__reorganise_: to arrange or organise something in a new way.

LANGUAGE REVIEW: PAST SIMPLE AND PRESENT PERFECT

2. Complete the message from Prunel’s CEO with the past simple or present perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.

I (11)_received_ (receive) our company’s end-of-year results yesterday, and I am delighted to

announce that it (12)__has been_ (be) an excellent year for Prunel. As you all remember, we

only (13)started__ (start) ten years ago in a suburb of Grenoble where we

(14)__employed_ (employ) six people, two of them part-time. Today, that number

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