Business English Vocabulary Exercise (ELL/ELT) - General Business Terms/Expressions 1

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ESL: Office/ Business English Terms Exercise
Topic: General Business Terms 1

Learn new words! Each of our Business English vocabulary exercises focuses on one topic/theme and teaches you only the most useful (and common) English words.

1. You always have to make ________ with prospective employers.
  eye contact
  eyes
  chat

2. What do you do? I work ________.
  by advertising
  in advertising
  advertising

3. "________" is a common way of saying "functions or features".
  Functionality
  Flavor
  Scope

4. A ________ is an outside company with whom your company has a business relationship.
  bender
  vendor
  lender

5. IBM provides a variety of networking ________ for its clients.
  salutes
  solvents
  solutions

6. If you own a lot of stock in a company, you are considered one of its major ________.
  share keepers
  share takers
  shareholders

7. In business, ________ is either a period when some kind of machinery isn't working, or a slow period.
  downtime
  down period
  sleep time

8. One of our corporate objectives is to develop ________ relationships with key customers.
  static
  strategic
  strategy

9. You have to be less competitive and more ________.
  cooperating
  cooperation
  cooperative

10. Our goal is to provide customers with high-quality products at ________ prices.
  competitive
  complete
  competent

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OFFICIAL ENGLISH TESTS: Cambridge BEC (Business English Certificate)

There are three BEC exams - BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage and BEC Higher - which test English language ability used in the context of business. They are ideal if you are preparing for a career in business.

there's also the BULATS (Business Language Testing Service) - A multilingual assessment service for companies that require a rapid, accurate means of assessing language skills in English, French, German and Spanish.