Vocabulary

quantity	количество
expensive	дорогой
cheap	дешевый
wide	широкий
variety	разнообразные
in stock	в наличии, продаже
mid-price range	по умеренной цене, средний уровень цен
low	низкий
increase	увеличение
trade	торговля
improvement	улучшение
improve	улучшать
condition	условие, обстановка
trading conditions	условия для торговли
to hope	надеяться

Ex. 1

Copy out a comparative form of the adjectives.

Ex.2

Образуйте сравнительную степень прилагательных:

1. nice –

2. dark –

3. expensive –

4. comfortable –

5. safe –

6. good –

7. fact –

8. slow –

9. big –

10. beautiful –

11. easy –

12. bad –

Text 2.

Read and translate.

Comparing countries.

A company is planning to open new subsidiaries around the world and collecting statistics. These are some facts.

Russia has the highest rate of inflation and Japan has the lowest. The rate of inflation in Thailand is higher than Italy but lower than in Argentina. Workers in Geneva receive the highest wages and workers in Hong receive the lowest. Parisians receive less wages than New Yorkers but more wages than Athenians.

Vocabulary

rale	уровень
rale of inflation	уровень инфляции
to receive	получать
wages	заработная плата рабочих

Ex.1

Answer the questions.

1. Which country has the highest rate of inflation?

2. Where do workers recieve the highest wages?

3. Who recieves the lowest wages?

Complete the sentences below, using the adjectives given in brackets as in example

Ex. The USE has the biggest area per person (big).

1. Japan has _____ living area per person (small).

2. New York is _____ city to live in (cheap).

3. Tokyo is _____ city to live in (expensive).

4. Moscow is _____ city in Russia (big).

Complete the questions with the superlative form of the adjective indicated.

1. What’s the _____ thing in your life (important)?

2. What’s the _____ thing in your life (stressful)?

3. What’s the _____ time you start work in the morning (early)?

4. What’s the _____ time you finish work in the evening (late)?

5. When is the _____ time of day to have a meeting with colleagues (good)?

Unit 6. Company History and Life Stories.

Language review – Past Indefinite. Tense Passive Voice

1.Here are the base forms of fifteen verbs. Write in the past tense forms:

become	more	sell
begin	meet	get
a quire	set	found
die	be	cross
agree	go	buy

Text 1

Read and translate this article about two famous men. Learn the words and expressions.

Henry Royce was born in 1863 in Petersborough. Charles Rolls was born in London in 1877. Royce was the son of a miller and Rolls was the son of an aristocrat. Royce began to work at the age of ten. He sold newspapers for a few months, then got a job as an apprentice engineer with YNR, one of the railway companies in Britain. A few years later he moved to London and worked for an electric company. In 1884 he was made redundant and he founded his own company. Royce sold dynamos and other electric devices to factories and cotton mills. He became rich and bought his first car. It didn’t work very well so Royce decided to produce cars himself. At the same time Charles Rolls was a student at Cambridge university. In 1890s he went to France and bought his first car a Peugeot. In 1902 he started his own company selling cars. At the same time he was a champion driver and the following year he set a new world speed record. Rolls loved cars but he really wanted to have his own name on a car and in 1904 he met Henry Royce. They agreed to set up the Rolls-Royce company. Two years later the company produced the Silver Shadow. The same year Rolls crossed the English Channel by hot air balloon. He loved speed. Unfortunately four years later he died in a flying accident. Royce continued producing cars. In 1931 Rolls-Royce acquired another company Bently. Royce died in 1933 at the age of seventy.