Unit 5b
Part I Grammar
Task 1
Complete the dialogue with the present perfect or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
Kate: Hello. Kate Hawthorn speaking.
Jason: Hi Kate, it’s Jason. I (1 just / come back) ______________________ from holiday and I was wondering
about the quarterly sales figures…
Kate: Oh right. Hang on. We (2 get) _____________________ them a couple of weeks ago.
Jason: So, how we (3 we / do) ____________________ last quarter?
Kate: Right, here they are. Well, it’s difficult to say, really. And I’m afraid some of the offices (4 still /
not send) ______________________ their figures in yet. Jason: So who (5 send) _______________________ their results so far?
Kate: Germany. They (6 do) ___________________ quite well last quarter. They (7 beat) ___________________ their
sales target by 12%.
Jason: How they (8 they / manage) _______________________ that? Their sales (9 be) _________________________ down
when I (10 be) ________________________ there in
August.
Kate: I know, but they (11 win) _________________________ a
big contract in September.
Jason: So what about Spain?
Kate: We (12 not / hear) ___________________________ from
them yet, I’m afraid…
Answers:
1. ‘ve just come back
2. got
3. did we do
4. still haven’t sent
5. has sent
6. did
7.beat
8. did they manage
9. were
10. was 11. won 12. haven’t heard
Task 2
Complete the e-mail with the correct form of the past simple
or present perfect.
Answers:
1. got
2. had
3. haven’t all come
4. sent
5. got/ ‘ve got
6. ‘ve already asked
7. didn’t all arrive
8. Did you mention
9. were
10. ‘s always been 11. ‘ve arranged/ arranged 12. haven’t come 13. saw
14. went 15. told 16. ‘s just come 17. made
18. promised 19. didn’t tell 20. haven’t even started
Task 3
Use the proper form of the verbs in brackets to complete the presentation.
Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the presentation of the company’s half year sales results. As you can see, this year
(1 be) ______ very successful so far and the company (2
already/achieve)______ many of its targets for the year. Our
sales people (3 work)______ very hard and the department (4
perform)_____ very well. The success is especially pleasing
when you think back to the problems we (5 have)____ summer.
Sales (6 be) _____ down by 10% and things (7 not/look)______
good at all. We (8 make) ______ some difficult decisions last
year, which a lot of people (9 not/be) ____ happy with. However,
since then we’re happy to say that performance (10
improve)_______ sharply.
Keys;
1 has been
2 has already achieved
3 have worked
4 has
performed 5 had 6 were 7 did not look 8 made 9 were
not 10 has improved
Part II Vocabulary
Which word is the odd one out?
1. goal objective sales
