PLACEMENT TEST

Company

Department

Last name, First name*

Address*

Postcode, City*

Phone*

E-Mail*

Date*

Your individual message:

Give full answers to all questions.

1. Where do you live?

2. Where do you work?

2.1 How long have you been working in the company?

3. What do you like most about your job?

4. What did you do yesterday?

5. Are you married?

5.1 How long have you been married?

6. Have you got any children?

7. Why do you want to learn English?

8. What are your hobbies?

Read the following sentences and choose the correct answer.

1. The letter ............... yesterday.

2. He ............... 7 models last year.

3. There are too ............... paper clips in this box.

4. We ............... at 9:00 o'clock tomorrow morning.

5. Have you ever ............... to Greece?

6. ............... you lend me your pen?

7. My birthday is ............... the 3rd of June.

8. When I saw Mr. Armari he told me he ............... be here by now.

9. Mr. Johnson, ............... is now working in the sales department, is to become assistant manager next week.

10. During the past ten years our turnover has doubled, and we are now just ............... City Bank.

11. "............... this week?" "No, she is on holiday."

12. I don't understand this sentence. What ............... ?

13. It was a boring weekend. ............... anything.

14. John .............. tennis once or twice a week.

15. You're out of breath. ............... ?

16. Sally has been working here ............... .

17. I prefer tea ............... coffee.

18. "Who is Tom Madely?" "I've no idea. I've never heard ............... him."

19. "What would you like to eat?" "I don't mind. ............... you've got."

20. What time ............... on television??

Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Frau Peters ist letztes Jahr bei Bradley Ltd. eingetreten.

2. Sie wohnt seit 1980 in Düsseldorf.

3. Als Sie Ihre Tätigkeit bei Bradley Ltd. begann, bot man ihr die Möglichkeit, an einem Englischkurs teilzunehmen.

4. Seit einem Jahr besucht Sie diesen Kurs.

5. Sie hat ausgezeichnete Fortschritte gemacht.

Translate the following sentences into German:

1. How long have you been attending Mr. Brunner's Business English course ?

2. Since when have you been working for this company ?

3. Have you ever been asked to translate any letters into English ?

4. Translating is still a bit difficult for us although we have been learning English for several years.

5. This is no problem for Mr. Hill who has been head translator at Bradley Ltd. for thirty years.

The following text is full of mistakes. Put the text into the simple past! Delete only the wrong words in the box below and fill in the right words!

The founder of IBM

Thomas J. Watson Senior begin his business career as a sewing machine salesman and later, when he has become President of IBM, he has used his sales techniques to promote the company's name. When Watson join IBM in 1914, the company were almost broke. Under his leadership, it grown beyond all expectations, and establishing a leading position in the information-processing industry. So how does he do it? Watson was believing that the way to win a man's loyalty is to build up his self-respect. Until the 1950s IBM never have sold machines. They just renting them to customers. Watson thinks that a manager should be an assistant to his men, and IBM run no management training schools in his day.

Correction (delete and correct only the wrong words)

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