Contents
Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Overview of the TOEIC ………………………………………………………………………….. 7
| Unit | Vocabulary Focus | Grammar Focus | Page |
| 1 | Word forms | Noun, verb, adjective, and adverb forms | 8 |
| Business documents | Present tenses | 16 | |
| 2 | Air travel | Present simple, present continuous, imperatives, state verbs | 24 |
| 3 | Shopping | Past tenses | 32 |
| 4 | Business trips | Past simple, past continuous, used to and be used to | 40 |
| 5 | Present perfect simple and continuous, for and since | ||
| Future | |||
| Present continuous; present simple; going to; will |
Practice Test 1 Listening, Reading
| 6 | Customer Service | Questions | 48 |
| | | Question forms; yes / no questions and short answers; wh- questions; tag questions | 54 |
| 7 | Property | Embedded questions | 62 |
| | | Wh- questions; yes / no questions; questions with an infinitive | |
| | | Reported speech | 69 |
| 8 | Banking | Reporting statements and questions; reporting verbs | |
| | | Adjectives and Adverbs | 78 |
| 9 | Commuting | Describing meanings; adding information about manner, place, time, frequency, and intensity | |
| | | Comparing | 86 |
| 10 | Advertising | Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs; expressions of equality / inequality (as , as , not as , as, etc.); other ways of comparing | |
Practice Test 2 Listening, Writing
| 11 | Company structure | Modals 1 | 94 |
| | | Ability and possibility | 100 |
| 12 | Employment Contracts | Modals 2 | 108 |
| | | Obligation and necessity; orders and advice | |
| 13 | Dining out | Modals 3 | 116 |
| | | Permission; requests; offers; suggestions | |
| 14 | Safety at work | Prepositions 1 | 123 |
| | | Prepositions of time; prepositions of place; prepositions of movement | |
| 15 | Meetings | Prepositions 2 | 132 |
| | | Verb + preposition; noun + preposition; adjective + preposition | |
Practice Test 3 Listening, Reading, Speaking
| 16 | Import / export | Referring to nouns | 139 |
| | | Demonstratives; one / ones; some / any; quantifiers; each / every; either / neither | 146 |
| 17 | Using the phone | Pronouns | 154 |
| | | Personal and possessive, reflexives, impersonal pronouns; it / there | |
| 18 | Office supplies | Nouns | 162 |
| | | Countable and uncountable nouns; articles | |
| 19 | Presentations | Linking words 1 | 168 |
| | | And, but, or; so, such, as, such as; too and enough; still, yet, already | |
| 20 | Investments | Passives | 176 |
| | | Passive voice; having something done | |
Practice Test 4 Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing
| 21 | Innovations | Relative clauses | 184 |
| | | Relative clauses; relative pronouns; relative pronouns with prepositions | 191 |
| 22 | Insurance | Conditional sentences | 199 |
| | | Zero, first, and second conditionals | |
| 23 | Trade shows | Linking words 2 | 207 |
| | | Giving reasons; giving results; making contrasts; adding information; showing sequences; showing attitude | |
| 24 | Marketing | Verb + verb patterns | 214 |
| | | Verb + to infinitive; verb + -ing; infinitive without to | |
| 25 | Employee perks and benefits | More verb patterns and phrasal verbs | 222 |
| | | Adjectives + to infinitive or -ing; nouns + preposition and -ing; phrasal verbs | |
Practice Test 5 Reading, Writing …………………………………………………………………. 230
Answer key ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 236
Recording scripts …………………………………………………………………………………….. 256
Appendix 1: Common phrasal verbs ………………………………………………………… 271
Appendix 2: Common irregular verbs ………………………………………………………… 272
Introduction
Who is this book for?
This book is for students preparing for the Test of English for International Communication™ (TOEIC®) and covers vocabulary and grammar useful for the business environment. It can be used as part of a TOEIC preparation course in the classroom or for extra practice or review at home. Students who are not preparing for the TOEIC tests but want to review grammar and extend their vocabulary will also find this book useful.
How are the units organized?
The book consists of 25 units and 5 practice tests. There is a practice test section after every 5 units. Each unit presents and practices both the grammar and vocabulary within the context of a work-related topic. The units are divided into 4 parts:
- A Context listening
This section introduces the vocabulary
