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Ten Days in Manchester
An interactive intermediate business English course featuring Tony Marshall and May Hunter

Days:

Find an agent

Today is all about researching and finding an agent to work for your company.

You'll hear and learn about words and phrases that are connected with agents.

Begin the journey here
	Day 4 and life continues at the conference. Tony and May have to start looking for an agent. How will they get on? Look at the photo. Find out who this agent is by choosing Good Day or Bad Day below.

	Good Day

	Bad Day

			Quiz

	Now test your understanding of Day 4 >

Meet the People

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A day in the life of a commercial director >

Some useful vocabulary

an agent	someone who represents you and helps you to do business
commission	money you pay to someone for helping you in business
marketing	promoting your company in advertisements, at exhibitions and in other ways
to handle	this also means to 'solve a problem' or to 'manage' something
to represent	this means you act for somebody else in business, as an agent