The new vocabulary.

 Activity 1

A. The following words formed with a prefix are from the article on page 32: co-founder, renamed, underselling. Match the common prefixes from the box with the correct meaning below.

1. Too much - Overproduce
2. Better/More - Out-vote
3. Badly - Misinterpret 
4. Extremely - Ultra-sophisticated 
5. Former - Ex-president 
6. Opposite - Deactive
7. With - Co-founder
8. Too lite - Underselling
9. Again - Renamed

B. Underline the odd one out in each group.

1. Under                  perfom/rate/charge/profit
2. Co                        producer/worker/boss/author
3. Re                        launch/engineer/locate/decir
4. Over                    spend/estimate/supply/lose
5. Mis                      manage/judge/calculate/look
6. Out                      perform/bid/class/win
7. Ultra                    efficient/cautious/modern/big
8. Ex                        boss/director/employee/staff
9. De                        merge/nationalise/regulate/grow

C. Complete the sentences with the correct word from Exercise B. 

1. Several sales staff under-performance last year and didn't meet their largerts.
2. Smith and Turner were the two co-authors of the report.
3. We will re-launch our product as soon as we have finished the modifications.
4. We over-estimated the number of people who would buy our product in Asia.
5. Because the company has been mis-manage for years we are close to banckruptcy.
6. They had to out-perfom their rivals to take over the company.
7. Our ultra-modern factory has state-of-the-art machinery.
8. My ex-boss was impossible to work with so I left the company.
9. Many state companies in Eastern Europe are being de-regulated.