Locations  |  Deutsch
Our language schools:
2010 © LINGUA FRANCA Berlin — Language School for Business English since 1990 — 030 / 86 39 80 80
Email this page

Test Your Business English —
New Business English exercises every Friday!

As part of our service we offer free weekly business English exercises. If you enjoy these exercises please  recommend  Test Your Business English and/or e(nglish)-mail to colleagues, friends and family.

Have fun with our exercises and the team here at LINGUA FRANCA wish you continued success with your English.


Business Englisch Exercise of the Week

Business English Phrase

Interactive Exercises — Business English Skills & Vocabulary

English Quote

English Joke

Test 16 / Week 10


(Please answer all questions before clicking results button.)
1. Tell your colleague you think his idea is good in the abstract but will be very hard to implement under real conditions.
I think your idea's great but I don't think it will work in the practice.
I think your idea's great but I don't think it will work in practice.
I think your idea's great but I don't think we can realize it in the practice.
I think your idea's great but I don't think it will function in the practice.
2. You think it is almost certain that your company will win the contract. Tell your boss.
In all probability, we'll get that contract.
In all the probability, we'll get that contract.
After all probability, we'll get that contract.
According to the probability, we'll get that contract.
3. One of your employees wants to go to a computer seminar next week. Tell him that it's absolutely not possible.
You can't go next week. I'm sorry, it's out of the question.
You can't go next week. I'm sorry, it stands out of the question.
You can't go next week. I'm sorry, it stands outside the question.
You can't go next week. I'm sorry, it's beside the question.
4. You said something to Smith yesterday and you want to make sure that he understands you were not speaking officially. How do you tell him?
What I told you yesterday is only for us. Please don't repeat it to anyone.
What I told you yesterday was under four eyes. Please don't repeat it to anyone.
What I told you yesterday is off the record. Please don't repeat it to anyone.
What I told you yesterday is out of the record. Please don't repeat it to anyone.
5. Every time you try to talk about a certain problem, Jones trys to avoid the discussion. How do you say this to him?
Every time I broach the topic, you try to talk around the issue.
Every time I speak to the topic, you try to talk around the issue.
Every time I speak to the topic, you try to dodge the issue.
Every time I broach the topic, you try to dodge the issue.
6. You think one competitor's company is too small to be a real danger for yours. How do you say it?
They're too small to make a real threat to us.
They're too small to make a real danger to us.
They're too small to put a real threat to us.
They're too small to pose a real threat to us.
7. You think that you have good chances to win concessions in the coming negotiations with the Works Council. What do you say?
We have a good bargain position.
We have a good negotiating possibility.
We have a strong dealing point.
We have a good bargaining position.
8. You are replying to a business letter. How do you begin?
In respond to your letter of.....
In answering to your letter of.....
In response to your letter of.....
For response to your letter of.....
9. Tell your negotiating partner that you will give him X if he gives you Y.
I will give you X against Y.
I will give you X in place of Y.
I will give you X in return for Y.
I will give you X in reply for Y.
10. For your company's security, you think you should wait for the contract to be signed before beginning production. What do you say?
Let's stay on the safe side and wait till we have a contract.
Let's go on the safe side and wait till we have a contract.
Let's go on the safe number and wait till we have a contract.
Let's bet on the safe number and wait till we have a contract.



Business English Phrase


If a business partner says "The event was a roaring success", what do they mean?

 A  —  It was relatively successful.

 B  —  It was extremely successful.

 C  —  It wasn't successful at all.




Interactive Exercises — Business English Skills & Vocabulary


Business English Exercise 1 Business English Exercise 2

TIP: If you'd like to try more interactive exercises then go to our Business Language Service Business English Online Exercises page.



Business English Quote of the Week


"We are all in the gutter*, but some of us are looking at the stars."

– Oscar Wilde

* gutter - Rinnstein



English Joke of the Week


Drag and drop the sentences below into the correct order to make a funny joke.

How does that work? Simply left click a sentence and as long as you hold the button down you can move the sentence wherever you like. As soon as you let go, the sentence says where it is. It's as easy as that.

Have fun with typical English black humour :-)



If you have a good joke you'd like to see here, please send it to Stuart at:
webmaster@lingua-franca.de

Tips on how to tell jokes in English



Recommendation

We'd be very happy if you'd like to recommend these exercises (Test Your Business English) and/or our  english-mail  to colleagues, friends or family. Simply fill in your email address and that of the person you'd like to make the recommendation to and they will receive an email – without any advertising – with the appropriate link(s). Thank you!

 your email address
 recipient's email address
 security question

           Test Your Business English          e(nglish)-mail  














 LINGUA FRANCA Language School Berlin  |  Test Your Business English