Vocabulary

miller	мельник, мукомол
apprentice engineer	инженер-стажер
to make redundant	уволить (в связи с сокращением)
cotton mill	фабрика, перерабатывающая хлопок
to acquire	приобретать

1. Are these sentences true (T) or fulse (F)?

1. Royce was older than rolls.

2. Rolls and Royce were students together at Cambridge.

3. Royce set a world record in 1903.

4. Rolls died before Royce.

5. Rolls-Royce was bought by Bently.

Answer the questions.

1. When was H. Royce born?

2. When did he begin to work?

3. Where did he move?

4. Who did Royce work for in London?

5. What year was he made redundant?

6. When did he found his own company?

7. What were the company activities?

8. Why did Royce decide to produce cars himself?

Ask some questions about Charles Rolls.

Make passive sentences using the verbs in brackets, as in example.

Ex. Electricity (discover) in the 1880. Electricity was discovered in the 1880s.

1. H.R. Royce (found) in 1884.

2. Rolls and Royce (be born) in the nineteenth century.

3. Rolls-Royce (create) in 1904.

4. The R-R Silver Shadow (produce) in 1906.

5. A new world record (set) in 1903.

6. Rolls (kill) in a flying accident.

7. Bently (acquire) in 1931.

Make questions for these answers.

1. He was born in Peterborough. Where …

2. He was made redundant in 1884. When …

3. Bently was acquired in 1931. What year …

4. He was killed in a flying accident. How …

Read the text and make passive sentences.

1955 - Ray Kroc opened his first restaurant in Illinois. He bought the name from two brothers called McDonald.

1963 - Ray Kroc started advertising on TV.

1965 - The company moved to New York and its head office was on Wall Street.

1967 - Kroc opened his first restaurants outside the US in Canada and Puerto Rico.

1968 - Kroc launched his most famous product, the “Big Mac”.

1979 - The company introduced a new idea – the “Happy Meal” a special manu for children.

1984 - Ray Kroc died.

at the start of 90s - The company opened its restaurant in Belarus, the hundredth country to have such a restaurant.

1995 - McDonald’s, acquired the Italian fast food chain Burghy.

1996 - The company opened restaurants in Moscow and Peking

Unit 7. Giving news about company’s Recent Results.

Language Review:

Present Perfect Tense

Would you like

Ex. 1.

Read and translate the sentences.

1. The rate of unemployment increased to 7% in July.

2. Interest rates decreased by 2% in April.

3. Consumer spending rose by 1% in March.

4. Inflation went up from 7% in December to 12% in January.

5. The production of oil fell in May.

6. Sales to Spain remained steady last year.

7. Distribution costs stayed at $ 1,500,000.

Vocabulary.

rate of unemployment	уровень безработицы
interest rates	процентные ставки
consumer spending	уровень потребительских расходов
costs, spending	расходы, затраты

increase

go to

rise

rocket

stay at

decrease

go down

fall

drop

remain steady

Ex.2

Complete the sentences about the company figures. Use a preposition to, from, by, at.

1. Sales stayed ___ 8000 in October.

2. She number of employees decreased ___ 500 people in September.

3. Wages rose ___ $ 1.2 m ___ $ 1.35 m in August.

4. Debts to the suppliers fell $ 0.5 m in the last quarter of the year.

5. Customer complaints decreased ___ 20% in February.

Ex.3

Study the table and write sentences describing rises and falls in the company’s figures.

Market Stare__________________-1%

The number of new contracts_____-6%

Earnings from investments_______+4%

Productivity ___________________+1.5%

Spending on advertising__________+10%

Staff turnover__________________-8%

Text 1.

Read and translate the text. Study the figures and do exercise that follow.

Consolidated Profit and Loss account.

Bianko Manufacturing PLC has just published its annual profit and loss account. Read, translate and learn the words.

	2000, $ m	2001, $ m
Home Sales	189	175
Export Sales	181	191
Total Sales	370	366
Cost of Sales	(254)	(255)
Gross Profit	116	111
Distribution Costs	(17)	(17)
Administrative Costs	(35)	(30)
Profit before Tax	64	64
Tax	(23)	(22)
Profit after tax	41	42
Dividend	(36)	(34)
Retained Profit	5	8