2.4 Asking questions about job responsibilities and about a company

Question 1

It says … of the job is ‘… clients and advising them on their travel requirements’.
What does that …?
Well,… range of things

Answer 1

a big part
looking after

involve
a wide

Question 2

advise clients … what flights to take

Answer 2

on

Question 3

explaining the different responsibilities that travel consultants have at Barton & Craig.

Answer 3

advise clients on what hotels to stay in
arrange visas for clients
arrange car hire
book conference centers

Question 4

And for our … clients, we can help to arrange travel to and from conferences, to book conference centres, business travel insurance … … of different things.

Answer 4

corporate

lots

Question 5

Would I be .. in just one office, or would I be expected to .. around the country?

Answer 5

based

move

Question 6

Although, very .,.., we might have to send you to another office on a temporary …,

Answer 6

occasionally

basis

Question 7

the description …. that

Answer 7

mentions

Question 8

there is a possibility of . … travel.
NEIL: Yes, that’s right. We don’t send our trainees …, but once people ..complete… their training, then, yes, travel is part of the job.

Answer 8

overseas
abroad
have completed

Question 9

First, we visit our main … clients

Answer 9

overseas

Question 10

And that helps with … of giving a personal service.

Answer 10

the idea

Question 11

OK. And are you going to … second interviews?

Answer 11

hold

Question 12

then we’ll … a shortlist.

Answer 12

make up

Question 13

. When am I … to hear from you?
well, you should hear from us at the end of next week. But I’m not absolutely sure. If not, we’ll …. contact you … Monday the 21st.

Answer 13

likely
definitely
by

Question 14

how many people do you … keep?

Well, it …

Answer 14

usually

varies

Question 15

. But it isn’t a … number. It depends a lot on the quality of the … trainees.

Answer 15

fixed

individual

Question 16

the managers write a report on each trainee they…work… with.

Answer 16

’ve worked

Question 17

Before the six-month period …

Answer 17

ends

Question 18

although both managers will be managing you on a day-to-day ….

Answer 18

basis

Question 19

they have to cover .. colleagues,

Answer 19

for

Question 20

hen, once trainees . finish.. their training,

we give them …clients to work with.

Answer 20

have finished

several specific

Question 21

determiners

Answer 21

When we want to describe quantities,  A determiner could be a number or a word
all
a number of
two of 
several
enough
a
an 
the
every

Question 22

As she is talking about a hypothetical situation, she uses ….

Answer 22

would
Would + subject + verb in the infinitive form

Would I be based in just one office?
Would I have to complete a training period
would you monitor my work?

Question 23

When you are asking for information about the decision-making process, which is a planned action, you use … or are you…

Answer 23

will
going to
Are you going to hold second interviews?