English test by E-mail - Interface Business Languages

INTERFACE BUSINESS LANGUAGES
ANALYSE DES BESOINS & TEST INITIAL
Afin de vous proposer la solution optimale en terme de formation, nous vous demandons de remplir (en français) ce questionnaire.
Il est destiné à :
♦ recueillir des renseignements généraux,
♦ identifier le niveau de compétence requis dans votre fonction,
♦ identifier clairement les objectifs de votre formation.
Ces informations nous permettront de cibler vos objectifs linguistiques personnels.
Nom :
Prénom :
Société :
Site Internet de votre société :
Téléphone :
Adresse E-mail :
Langue à étudier :
Fonction :
Descriptif de votre fonction
Dans quelles circonstances utilisez-vous cette langue et avec quelle fréquence ?
Quelles sont les compétences que vous souhaiteriez améliorer en priorité dans le langage des affaires?
Téléphoner (standardiste)
Téléphoner (outil de travail)
Lecture (lettres, e-mails)
Lecture (documents complexes)
Rédaction (lettres, e-mails)
Rédaction (documents complexes)
Négocier
Réunions
Téléconférences
Présentations
« Social English »
Autres (précisez)
Quelles sont les principales difficultés que vous rencontrez dans cette langue ?
Difficultés de compréhension orale
Difficultés d’expression orale
Manque de vocabulaire
Difficultés en rédaction
Lacunes en grammaire
Autres (précisez)
Quels sont les principaux objectifs de votre formation?
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Le test consiste en :
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QCM test grammatical
Test de compréhension écrite
Rédaction d’un texte
Durée : 25 minutes
Durée : 10 minutes
Durée : 15 minutes
GOOD LUCK!!!
Multiple-choice Structure Test
Time limit: 25 minutes
Please underline the correct answer :
consists / is consisting / consisting
Example : This test
do / does / are
of 50 questions.
1.
What
they do for a living ?
2.
How much
3.
I
4.
You come / Are you coming / Do you come
5.
The goods won’t / wouldn’t / hadn’t
6.
Our company
7.
Do you / Are you going to / Will you pass me the report, please ?
8.
Share prices
9.
Bill Gates
10.
Which supplier
11.
What
12.
During the strike, I
13.
Did they
14.
He
15.
The Chairman, now aged 60,
16.
A: Who was that man in George’s office ? B: I haven’t known / didn’t know / don’t know.
17.
Look! Could / Would / Can you see that guy with the Financial Director ?
18.
But surely they
19.
The computer files
20.
The local branch of the National Bank has been
21.
You could improve your English if you
22.
I
23.
If they’d have / Had they / If they have
24.
We’ve always said that we agree / are agree / have agreed.
25.
If we step up our sales drive, I’m sure we can get into / get over / get up to the present slump.
is / cost / are those colour printers ?
do always have / have always / always have a coffee as soon as I get to work.
is / was / has been
to the meeting tomorrow ?
arrive before six o’clock.
founded in 1905.
fell / felt / have fallen dramatically after the earthquake last January.
was born / born / is born
in Seattle in 1953.
you buy / bought you / did you buy those pens from ?
he was doing / was he doing / has he done
when you saw him ?
was walking / did walk / walked 5 miles to work every day.
have / have got / got
the software you were looking for ?
interviewed / has interviewed / has been interviewing
4 candidates so far.
has done / did / does many things in the course of his life.
can’t had / could haven’t / couldn’t have
are / are being / was
forgotten our order.
backed-up twice a week.
rob / robbed / stolen.
try / will try / tried.
won’t had / would have / wouldn’t have
got the job if you hadn’t helped me prepare the interview.
informed us immediately, we wouldn’t have been so upset.
26.
She asked me where had I gone / where did I go / where I had been for my holiday.
27.
They made me
28.
We’d better
29.
We aren’t accustomed
30.
Our most important exports are foodstuffs, wine and
31.
They asked me when the new product
32.
He’s the man
33.
There were several new models
34.
In my opinion, Paris is
the more beautiful / the most beautiful / most beautiful
35.
I believe Tanko’s to be
slightly better than / far better as / more better than
36.
He has gone
37.
I’ve been
38.
The meeting starts
after / on / in
39.
The photocopier is
by / next / nearby
40.
Your name is Jeremy,
41.
You used to work in Japan,
42.
We will have to hire more staff
43.
The in-house magazine is produced
44.
We don’t need
45.
All / All of / Every
46.
A: How much of the meeting did you understand ? B: No one / No thing / Nothing
47.
My secretary can’t speak English and
48.
Haven’t you finished
49.
He works too hard. In fact he works
50.
He always is / Always he’s / He’s always
work / to work / working
do / doing / to do
weekends on a regular basis.
as he says.
to receive / receiving / to receiving
which / who / what
in / on / to
at / on / in
complaints.
cars / the cars / car.
is / will be / would be
ready for launch.
we hired to look after quality control.
which / who / what
interested us.
city in the world.
its competitors.
South America on business for the week.
my desk typing up the report all morning.
5 minutes.
the door.
isn’t it / aren’t you / are you ?
lived you / used you / didn’t you ?
for meeting / to meet / in order we meet
the increased demand.
all the months / monthly / every months.
much / many / some help.
start-ups need big investment to get off the ground.
neither I / neither do I / nor can I.
yet / already / still ?
as / like / same
late.
a slave.
Reading Comprehension Test
Time limit: 10 minutes
The Oscar ceremony is the finish line of each year’s film-awards derby. Winners are decided by the 5,600 voting members of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences based in Los Angeles. Nominations are determined by peer groups (actors vote for
actors, etc.) and then members vote in nearly all categories for winners.
Upsets are rare, but do happen. All of these Best Picture victories caused jaws to drop: Grand Hotel, The Greatest Show on Earth,
Hamlet, An American in Paris, Casablanca, Oliver!, Chariots of Fire, The Silence of the Lambs, Braveheart and Shakespeare in
Love.
Oscar victories in the supporting categories turned Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) and Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts) into
lead stars. Striking Oscar gold can mean reaping real gold, too. Shakespeare in Love earned an extra $100 million at the box office
as a result of its Oscar success.
In addition to being the most prestigious kudo, the Academy Award may also be the most accurate, at least if we defer to the 1,500
film pros who participated in a poll conducted by the American Film Institute in 1996 to determine the 100 greatest movies ever
made. The Oscars have more films on that list than any other award-even if just limiting the comparison to the years that any rival
kudos have existed. Or look at two groups overall: the Oscars (launched in 1928) have 33 Best Pictures on the roster while the
New York Film Critics Award (launched in 1935) has 20.
Oscar voters have obvious biases toward screen epics (Best Pictures Gone with the Wind, Around the World in 80 Days, Lawrence
of Arabia, The Last Emperor, Gandhi) and British accents (multiple acting trophies for Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson). They
also like stars who portray drunks (Ray Milland, Nicolas Cage, James Coburn), hookers (Jane Fonda, Mira Sorvino, Shirley Jones)
and people with handicaps (Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman).
The Oscar ceremony is the most-watched TV event in the world, boasting nearly a billion viewers who tune in every year to
behold a glittering spectacle where Hollywood is suddenly off script and anything can happen. Past shows have starred a streaker,
fake injun (remember “Sacheen Littlefeather”?) and a fiasco pairing of Rob Lowe with Snow White as they crooned “Proud
Mary” together. “It’s painful, but it’s thrilling,” four-time champ Katharine Hepburn once said about the Oscarcast.
1.
The title that best describes this text is :
A.
Recent Oscar winners
B.
Film awards
C. The greatest British and American films of all time
D. An introduction to the Academy Awards
2.
Oscars are awarded by :
A.
The votes of the movie public
B.
The votes of the television public
C. A panel of 1500 film professionals
D. Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
3.
According to the text, all of the following film subjects have won multiple Oscars except :
A.
Films about prostitutes
C. Films about alcoholics
B.
Movies with British actors
D. Films about exotic subjects
4.
“All of these Best Picture victories caused jaws to drop” means essentially that :
A.
The victories were extremely popular
C. The films generated violent political reactions among the viewers
B.
The films were not expected to win
D. Viewers had rarely seen such good films
5.
The meaning of the word “kudo” employed in paragraph 4 is closest to which of the following :
A.
Treasure
C. Prize
B.
Price
D. Studio
6.
According to the text, the Oscar ceremony :
A.
Is a noisy spectacle
B.
Features many unpredictable moments
7.
Which of the following is true of Oscar-winning films ?
A.
They always reward the most sophisticated films C. They provide a springboard for actors’ careers
B.
They are generally very high-budget pictures
D. They are sometimes made by Asiatic film directors
8.
The description of the Oscar telecast: “It’s painful but it’s thrilling” is closest in meaning to which of the following:
A.
It’s boring and injurious for the losers
C. It’s fun for the participants if less interesting for the spectators
B.
It’s difficult to bear but ultimately very exciting
D. It would be better not to have the ceremony televised
C. Is a completely organised and scripted event
D. Attracts the biggest European TV audience every year
Writing test
Time limit: 15 minutes
Write an E-mail based on the following situation:
Lors d’une récente soirée professionnelle, vous étiez assis(e) à côté d’un homme : Andrew Cargill. Il travaille en tant que
Responsable Financier chez un de vos fournisseurs, Rapid Office Solutions.
Il y a quelques jours, vous avez passé une commande auprès de cette société pour une importante quantité de papier pour vos
imprimantes laser. La commande est arrivée hier, mais le papier est vert au lieu d'
être blanc. Vous pensez pouvoir profiter de vos
relations avec M. Cargill afin de régler ce problème au plus vite.