Tham khảo tài liệu 'grammar practice for upperintermediate - part 5', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Verbs J Well Alison s getting on very well. I think we did the right thing taking her on. She s already achieved higher sales than Martin this month. She s got lots of enthusiasm and she never wastes any time she just gets on with it. T Well that s good news. But what about Martin Is his work still not coming up to standard J No it isn t. His sales figures have been going down steadily since the beginning of the year. If he carries on like this I think I ll have to take him off that job and put him back in the office. T So what do you think the problem is J Well to be honest I think he s lost enthusiasm for the job. And I think his outside interests are taking up a lot of his time and energy. T I m afraid that s just not good enough. If his sales figures don t start going up soon he might find himself looking round for another job. J Yes I think that s right. I ll fix up a meeting with him so that we can run through this year s figures and then I ll let him know that he can t get away with this poor performance for much longer. T Yes I really think he should give up some of these outside activities if his work is suffering. J Yes I agree. Don t worry I ll sort it out with him. 26b Rewrite the parts underlined replacing the words in bold with a phrasal verb from Exercise 26a. 1 I d like to discuss your plans with you. Can we arrange to have a meeting soon Can we fix up a meeting soon 2 You ve got exams soon. You can t continue going out every night. 3 He arrives late for work every day. I don t know how he does it without getting into trouble. 4 If the business continues to expand we ll need to employ more staff soon. 5 We ll never get this problem resolved if we don t talk about it. 6 The club membership has been declining for the last five years. 7 I m going to remove you from this case detective. I think you re becoming too personally involved. 80 Verbs 8 I really think he should stop drinking it s not doing him any good. 9 I m afraid I m a bit disappointed with
