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

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Video

It's your turn to test your knowledge of English. Imagine you need a partner, an agent to help you market your company in Britain.

Tell him about it and answer his questions. What does he want you to do? Remember you can pause the video to give you more time of you need.

	Good Day


Questions
1. Hello. I wonder if you can help me?
		a)	No, I can't
		b)	Yes, certainly. What can I do for you?
		c)	Yes I can
		d)	Yes, what do you want?
Click on a, b, c or d and then look here

2. I understand you are looking for an agent?
a)	Yes, that's right. We need an agent in Britain to represent us
b)	No, sorry. I am not
c)	Yes. I am
d)	Yes. Do you want to do it?
Click on a, b, c or d and then look here

3. Is your business based overseas?
a)	Yes
b)	I'm not sure!
c)	Yes, we are based overseas
d)	Yes, I live in Hong Kong
Click on a, b, c or d and then look here

4. Why exactly do you need an agent?
		a)	Well, we need an agent to help us
		b)	We need someone to help us with marketing
		c)	We want someone to get us lots of money
		d)	We need someone to help us to travel to Britain
Click on a, b, c or d and then look here

5.What commission do you pay?
a)	We try to pay very little
b)	You pay us 10% commission
c)	We do not pay the agent
d)	We offer 10% commission for every holiday you sell
Click on a, b, c or d and then look here

Did you answer all the questions? Now find out how things are going for Tony and May by visiting the Audio page. Go to the Audio page