Preliminary Test 1

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Preliminary Test 1
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Technicalities

• attendance/participation requirement?
• date April 30 (Wed) 08-10, 12-14
• Do not be late! (no entrance)
• applications (office door)
• deadline for application 28 April (Mon)
• exam schedule 29 April

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Topics

1. Introduction university essentials,
   economy/economics (R)
2. Three economic sectors (R, MK Unit 1)
3. Presentations -vocabulary, signalling (R)
4. Types of EconomiesPublic/Private
   SectorPrivatisation (R MK Unit 22)
5. Types of Business Organisation in the Private
   Sector (R, extra sheet)

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Topics (cont.)

• 7. Company Structure (R, MK Unit 3)
• 8. Entrepreneurship (R MK Unit 30)
• 9. Management (R, MK Unit 2)
• 10.Work and Motivation (R, MK Unit 4)
• 11. Recruitment (MK, extra sheet)

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How to prepare?

• read all the texts (R,MK,extra sheets)
• read all the slides (web)
• do all the exercises

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Preparing a text for the exam

• read the text
• underline unknown words/expressions
• find their meaning (dictionary, note-book,
  slides, web,...)
• make sure you understand all the text (sentence
  by sentence)
• see which of the words/expressions in the text
  were important for this topic (slides, notebook)
• explain their meaning in simple English
• retell the main message of the text orally
• Think what ex. could be expected in the test
• REVISE!

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Types of exercises

• Fill in the missing words
• Find synonyms/opposites for the following
  words/expressions
• Write down the following acronyms/abbreviations
  in full
• Explain the meaning of the following sentence.
  Focus on the underlined words.
• Explain the meaning of the following
  words/expressions
• Explain X.(Use the following words...)
• Compare X and Y/Similarities and differences
  between X and Y /Advantages and disadvantages of
  X and Y. Use the following words ....
• Describe the organisation chart of a company
  (business units and their responsibilities,
  verbs, ...)
• Write a CV for ...
• Write clearly structured notes based on the text
  below.

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Typical mistakes

• learning dictionary definitions by heart
• not reading the texts carefully or not reading
  them at all
• thinking that preparation takes very little time
  (students with good English)
• thinking it is impossible to prepare it properly
  (students with weaker English)