3. Find the words which mean the same as the word below

abroad	to expand
all over the world	worldwide
to grow bigger	item
the thing a company sells	overseas

4. Write down the questions to the answers about Marks and Spencer.

• _________________________________________________?

• There are 283 in Britain and 150 overseas.

• _________________________________________________?

• About 50.000 people worldwide.

• _________________________________________________?

• The one main reason for our success is quality. The suppliers give us high quality product and we offer our customers a very good service.

• _________________________________________________?

• Yes, there is a lot of competition between retailers. Clothes and food are products which everyone need.

• _________________________________________________?

• Yes, we are thinking about expanding into Eastern Europe and the Far East, particularly China.

5. Make a presentation about the above company. Study and use useful

expressions in your story.

Outlining the presentation

First, I’ll give you some basic information.

Secondly, I’ll talk about the stores in other countries.

Last of all, I want to look at our future plans.

Introducing new information

Here’s some basic information.

Let me add a few figures.

Let’s have a look at some statistics.

What are our strengths?

Ending the presentation.

To conclude, I want to tell you about our future plans.

Finally, a few words about our new project.

Thank you very much for listening to my talk.

Thank you for coming to my presentation.

XIV. Scan the text, translate and answer the questions. Toyota – a Famous Auto Maker

Toyota is a very successful Japanese manufacturing company. They make new models of cars every year.

The company certainly faces a lot of difficulties. For example, Toyota is under pressure from the government and its trade union to reduce working hours. It must hire more people or keep investing in automation. It wants to cut the working hours to 38 hours a week. That’s why the company must continually recruit and train new workers. And it must make assembly-line jobs simpler and easier without hurting productivity or quality.

All this calls for many innovations. For example, they introduced the new electronic system of communication among all factories, and all parts necessary for production can be ordered in a moment. Noiseless electric carriers have replaced old conveyers. Now the workers can speak normally at the assembly line and they even play music in the workshop.

But the main innovation is, of course, the introduction of robots. Sometimes workers are hard to find, machines are everywhere. Video cameras help robots to carry car parts, to put them in right places and to make all necessary operations on them. No wonder all the jobs get done right and the quality of the cars is exceptional. There are only 10 defects per 100 Toyota cars, whereas there are 125 defects per 100 cars produced in other countries.

1. О какой компании рассказывает этот текст?

2. Чем занимается эта компания?

3. С какими трудностями сталкивается компания?

4. Какие меры применяются для устранения этих трудностей?

5. Какие нововведения применяются в производстве?

6. Какое влияние эти инноваций оказывают на выпускаемую продукцию?

7. Каким образом улучшаются условия работы на предприятиях этой компании?

8. Где находятся филиалы этой компании?

Oral Task: Speak about any well-known company