I hear them complaining, but not about ________, ______________, that is not quite what they want, too _______, too _______, and so on. Anyway, the ______ and the ________ seem to have gone down all right. And I suppose _________________ worry about.
It's difficult of course _________ the costs and benefits, the time lost from the office compared to what I am ___________, but I've always said our staff, our people are our biggest _____. So anything that _______________ must be a ______ in itself. Of course much will depend on the __________________, which I hope the ________________ can ________________ reasonably soon. Otherwise I won't really be in a position to know if I did make the right choice.
Supplementary Exercise Seven
1. Spot Dictation:
When I finally persuaded my boss to let me ________________, I was amazed to ________that the __________ upon Trainers is way above the norm. I found it very difficult to _______________. The manufacturers can be pretty secretive. But eventually, I managed to _______________. And I was quite shocked at how little some of the companies pay their workers. And mostly because of that, they can keep cost right down. So they are just fraction of the price in the shops, which means that the manufacturers are making a massive profit on the shoes. When __________, it caused quite a ____.
We make shoes for sports and ok, so only 30% of our shoes are used for sports, and 70% are brought because they are fashionable. But as I have to keep telling you media people, we don't care. As far as we concerned, that's an extra. We are lucky that our shoes are so popular.
____________, they pour millions of dollars into ____ and __________, __________ of sporting events and so on. So children and teenagers count on getting the __________ that it's cool to wear Trainers and they put pressure on each other. You hear them laughing about kid's parents who can't afford the popular, expensive brands, those wearing cheap Trainers. They're coming. And you couldn't believe the money some of kids spend, not only Trainers, but sweater shirts, backpacks, anything just has got a big name on it. _____________________, but I'm a _________ too. And I sometimes worry about the effects having on these children.

Then there are the _______ and the _______. I feel I am going to __________ or __________ if I see a famous tennis player or an athlete wearing the same Trainer as me. I know it won't really _______________, but I feel better in the trainers. So as long as people like them, they'll go on __________. I _______ 12 pairs now, but __________________ 18.

It's a ________ process. I mean, the __________________ me to get _________, because when I win and I'm over the TV and newspapers, it's ______ on my shirt. But ____________ because they give me _______ and a good _______, and ________ for my ___________. Without them, I wouldn't have got as far as I have.

Supplementary Exercise Eight
1. Spot Dictation:
I thought we ________ everything very well and it all went very smoothly. _______________________ and she wanted to meet the ____, but he was away. But ________________ were there and that seemed to satisfy her. We'd arranged it so that _____ had time for a _________ as well and I think she was _______. I was worried before hand that she might think our production was too slow _______________________ in her company, but I needn't have been concerned. No she's very _______ about things. It was really worth doing and I think _________________________ on the German ________.

Well, I had to go and see him to discuss ____________________ of _________________in the market so that _________________. I was dreading it because I really hadn't liked ____________ last time. But the truth is we can't afford to __________________ at the moment. In the end, I think the _________ he was ___________ will be ok. We don't want to spend any more this year so ___________ were within the ____________ of what we can do.

He drives me mad. Whenever I tell him my plans, he always queries them. For example, he asked me why I needed to meet the _______. He's ________________, not ______________ everything. I delegate quite a lot to him and I need to be able to trust him to do things