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III. Who said what? The writer of the article, the mca, Bruce Tindale, Fiona Czerniawska, an anonymous client or an anonymous consultant?

  1. Fees for traditional consulting fell 8 per cent last year.

  2. Does it matter that their business has moved away from old-fashioned consulting towards outsourcing and IT?

  3. The problem is that many public -sector consulting projects have been controversial.

  4. Around 30 per cent of the client managers my firm deals with are former consultants.

  5. I'm not prepared to subsume my life any more.

  6. The increase in the number of smaller firms is one of the reasons why revenue per consultant might have fallen, as smaller consultancies lend to charge less.

  7. Consultants need to provide their clients with a better value -far-money service than they did in the past

  8. What are we getting for this?

IV. Read paragraphs 1 and 2 again. What do these figures refer to?

a) 19.2 b) 40 c)25 d)33 e)8 f) 65

V. Choose the best definition of these wends and expressions in italics for the context in paragraphs 3 and 4.

a) old-fashioned consulting

  • not modern or fashionable

  • traditional management consulting

  • IT-related and systems consulting

b) consultants would have been foolish...

  • silly or unwise

  • immature

  • taking unnecessary risks

c) ... not to have grabbed the opportunity

  • taken without asking

  • suddenly tried to take hold of

  • obtained quickly in a dishonest way

d) … outsourcing appears to have peaked.

  • reached the highest point or level

  • gone down after reaching a maximum limit

  • formed a point above a surface or at the top of something

e) projects have been controversial

  • discussed in depth and at great length

  • shocking or completely unfair and wrong

  • causing disagreement as people have strong opinions a bout the subject

VI. Find words in paragraphs 5 and 6 that mean the following in the context of the article.

  1. having knowledge, experience or understanding of complicated subjects

  2. pressure or very bad effect something has over a long period of time

  3. when workers stay with a company instead of taking a job with another employer

  4. resistance or dissatisfaction

  5. treat something as being less important

  6. sharply or dramatically

VII. Read paragraph 7 and choose the best summary.

The author of the MCA report suggests …

A) there are various reasons why revenue per consultant has fallen recently: the MCA now has new members, especially from smaller consultancies who charge less. She also thinks the change in the type of Services consultancies offer is a contributing factor since IT-related consulting and outsourcing both generate less fee income than management services.

B) there are two reasons why revenue per consultant is falling. Many independent consultants have become members of the MCA and charge less, which has significantly reduced the average income of smaller firms, Ms Czerniawska also thinks outsourcing generates less fee income than traditional management consulting services.

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