- •Друзь ю.М., KoпитькoT.В., Лобановa в.А.,
- •Unit 1. What is economics?
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: What is Economics? Active Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Writing
- •Discussion points
- •Text b: what economics isn't
- •Text c: Micro, Macro and Fantasy Economics
- •Business communication
- •Introductions How to Say Hello
- •If you're determined not to be caught cardless again, here are some tips to help you remember:
- •Grammar present tenses
- •The present simple tense
- •The present continuous tense
- •The present simple versus the present continuous
- •Unit 2. Factors of production
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: factors of production Active Vocabulary
- •Natural resources – land and mineral deposits
- •Human resources – labour
- •Information as a factor of production
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Writing
- •Text b:entrepreneurship
- •Text c:Factors of Production for an Innovation Economy
- •Business communication
- •In the office
- •Grammar the present perfect tense
- •The present perfect continuous tense
- •The present continuous versus the present perfect continuous
- •The present perfect versus the present perfect contnuous
- •Present tenses review
- •Unit 3.Types of economic systems
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: types of economic systems
- •Active Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Writing
- •Discussion points
- •Text b:command economy
- •Text c: the good (and bad) model guide
- •Business communication
- •Grammar exercises
- •Past tenses
- •The past simple tense
- •The past continuous
- •The past simple versus the past continuous
- •The past simple versus the present perfect
- •Unit 4. Demand and supply
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: demand and supply
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Writing
- •Discussion points
- •Text b. The role of prices
- •Text c: two factors that affect labour supply and demand
- •Business communication
- •Making an appointment
- •Ex.5. Read and study useful phrases.
- •Serge: Hi, Ann. It’s Serge. I’m calling to make an appointment for LeeAnn. She wants to meet Miles next week sometime.
- •A: Good morning. Dr. Brown's office. __________?
- •Grammar
- •Past perfect
- •Past perfect continuous
- •Past Continuous or Past Perfect Continuous?
- •Past Simple, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous?
- •Past tenses review
- •Unit 5. Free-enterprise system
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: what is free enterprise?
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Writing
- •Discussion points
- •Text b: role of government in a free-enterprise economy
- •Text c: invisible hand
- •Business communication
- •At the airport
- •Look at the picture. What do you think the phrase Live out of a suitcase mean?
- •Going through Customs.
- •2) Role- play the situations in the airport using the vocabulary of the lesson.
- •Grammar
- •Future tenses
- •The future simple tense
- •The future simple versus the present simple
- •The future simple versus be going to
- •Be going to versus the present continuous
- •The future continuous tense
- •The future continuous versus the future simple
- •The future perfect versus the future perfect continuous
- •Future tenses review
- •The imperative mood
- •Unit 6. Forms of business organisations
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: forms of business organisations
- •Active Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Writing
- •Discussion points
- •Text b: nonprofit organisations
- •Text c: franchising
- •Business communication
- •At the hotel
- •In pairs read the following situations.
- •2). Choose the correct options to the questions.
- •Grammar
- •ArticleS
- •IntoEnglish.
- •Unit 7. Money
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: money and its role in the economy
- •Active Vocabulary
- •Money is a medium of exchange
- •Money is a measure of value or a unit of account
- •Money is a store of value
- •Money is a means of liquidity
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Discussion points
- •Text b: a glimpse of the american, british and euro
- •Text c: a barter way of doing business
- •Business communication
- •On the phone
- •Inquiring about the telephone number
- •If you answer the phone and offer your help, you can say:
- •Useful Language Box
- •Grammar
- •Determiners
- •Numerals
- •Unit 8. Taxes
- •Lead-in
- •Text a: taxes
- •Active Vocabulary
- •Purposes of Taxation
- •Vocabulary focus
- •Language skills
- •Writing
- •Discussion points
- •Text b: taxation in the uk
- •Text c: taxes are good
- •Business communication
- •In company
- •Grammar
- •Pronouns
- •Adjective and adverb
- •Very, too, far, much, a lot, rather, a bit, a little, any, by far, quite, nearly, almost
- •Test yuorself
- •Test 1
- •Test 2
- •Test 3
- •Test 4
- •Test 5
- •Test 6
- •Test 7
- •Test 8
- •Test 9
- •Test 11
- •Test 12
- •Test 13
- •Test 14
- •Test 15
- •Граматичний довідник дієслово the verb
- •Дієслова to be і to have.
- •Часи дієслова
- •Група теперішніх часів Утворення стверджувальних, заперечних та питальних форм
- •Правила написання дієслівних форм
- •Типи питальних речень
- •Загальна таблиця випадків використання
- •Не мають форми тривалого часу дієслова, що виражають
- •Група минулих часів Утворення стверджувальних, заперечних та питальних форм
- •Типи питальних речень
- •Випадки вживання минулих часів
- •Група майбутніх часів Утворення стверджувальних, заперечних та питальних форм
- •Типи питальних речень
- •Випадки вживання майбутніх часів
- •Інші способи вираження майбутнього часу
- •Наказовий спосіб
- •Іменник thenoun
- •Число іменників
- •Деякі іменники мають особливі форми у множині:
- •Утворення множини іменників
- •Класифікація іменників за ознакою обчислювані/необчислювані
- •Випадки переходу необчислюваних іменників у обчислювані
- •Іменники, які узгоджуються із дієсловом в однині
- •Іменники, які узгоджуються із дієсловом у множині
- •Рід іменників
- •Рід іменників в англійській мові
- •Відмінки іменників
- •Відмінок іменника. Форми та особливості вживання присвійного відмінку
- •Форми присвійного відмінку
- •Особливості вживання присвійного відмінку
- •Вживання іменників - назв неістот у присвійному відмінку
- •Іменники у функції означення
- •Артикль
- •Вживання неозначеного артикля.
- •Вживання неозначеного артикля a/an (тільки із обчислюваними іменниками в однині)
- •A/anабо one
- •Артиклі з деякими необчислюваними іменниками
- •Вживання означеного артикля
- •Вживання означеного артикля the
- •Вживання нульового артикля (відсутність артикля)
- •Детермінанти
- •Присвійні прикметники і займенники
- •Присвійні прикметники
- •Присвійні займенники
- •Вказівніслова
- •Кількісніслова
- •Some/any/no
- •Many/much/a lot (lots) of/ (a) few/ (a) little
- •All (of)/most (of)/both (of)/ none (of)
- •Every/each
- •Another/the other/other
- •Either/neither (of)
- •Числівники
- •Займенник
- •Особові займенники
- •Itабоthere?
- •Неозначено-особовізайменники
- •IndefinitePersonalPronouns
- •Зворотні займенники
- •Прикметник
- •Прислівник
- •Ступені порівняння прикметників
- •Особливі випадки утворення ступенів порівняння прикметників і прислівників
- •Appendices
- •Словотворення Word formation
- •Enjoy your reading
- •I, Pencil My Family Tree as told to Leonard e. Read
- •Innumerable Antecedents
- •Money The History of Money
- •Extract 1
- •Extract 2
- •Extract 3
- •Success story
- •The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser Chapter III
- •The Iron Heel, by JackLondon Chapter 2 Challenges
- •Glossary
- •Internet Resources
- •Contents
Unit 2. Factors of production
TEXT A:Factors of production TEXT B: Entrepreneurship TEXT C: Factors of production for an innovation economy BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: In the office GRAMMAR: Present Tenses. The Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous Tenses
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“The supply-side claim is not a claim. It is empirically true and historically convincing that with lower rates of taxation on labor and capital, the factors of production, you'll get a bigger economy.”
Jack Kemp(1935 –2009),an American politician, a collegiate and professional football player
Lead-in
Would you like to own your own business? Why or why not?
Would you prefer to buy an existing business or start one yourself?
What product or service would you provide?
Where would you want to locate the business and for what reason?
How would you recruit employees?
PRE-TEXT EXERCISES
Reading drills
Ex.1. Practice reading the following words.
y/i [aɪ] rye, fly, sky, dry, try, ply, dye, by-product, type, byte, cycle;lifestyle, item, size, dive, sizable
[aɪ]falsify, intensify, notify, signify, specify
[ɪ] myth, symbol, system, syndicate, Sydney
[ɪ]security, property, economically, secondary, duty, baby, lady, study, noisy, lobby, pony, sorry, lorry,sym'phonic
[aiə] tyre, tire, hire, fire
y [j]yes, yet, you, yell, yelp, yield, youthful, yard, yawn
u [ju:] use, mule, tune, due, suit
u[ʌ] but, must, run, sun, up
u[u:] rule, true, fruit, blue, flu
[ɔ] – [ʌ] not – nut, boss – bus, dock – duck, lock – luck, sock - suck
Rhyme, single, rhythm, rivalry, yawn, risky, syllable, sight, historically, multiply, mind, pretty, think, nymph, yesterday, child, pyjamas, memory, kind, wish, analytic, behind, picture, category, yucca, desire, light, exactly, king, candy, miner, syndicate, typist, hymn, rice, myself, risk, pyramid, nylon, mineral, line, hydrant.
Ex.2. Read the words in the groups below. Pay attention to the word stress.
words with the stress on the first syllable:
access, acre, actual, balance, benefit, broker, capital, dwelling, enterprise, forecast, glut, hectare, tangible, labour, land, lease, lot, luxury, maintenance, management, owner, ownership, parking, property, suburbs, quality, quantity, raw, scarce, scarcity, service, term, urban, utilize;
words with the stress on the second syllable:
accumulate, accomplishment, consumer, commodity, delivery, environment, estate, inherit, inheritance, intangible, location, necessity, securities, utility;
polysyllabic words with the main and secondary stress:
acquisition, competition, exploitation, externalities, information,entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurship, privatization, profitability, relocate,substitution,telecommunication, termination, urbanization,undercapitalization, utilization.
Ex.3. Read the following two-syllable words in the box. Pay special attention to the word stress - it is different for noun and verb.
Verb |
Noun |
conduct |
conduct |
discount |
discount |
object |
object |
permit |
permit |
produce |
produce |
reject |
reject |
subject |
subject |
transport |
transport |
Now, read and translate the sentences with some of the words from Ex.3.
Ethical conduct is a particular concern among more vulnerable service users.
We are conducting a survey of consumer attitudes towards organic food.
Employees can buy books at a discount.
Games were discounted to as little as $5.
My object was to explain the decision simply.
Robson strongly objected to the terms of the contract.
Dogs are not permitted inside the shop.
Hikers need a camping permit for overnight stays in the park.
The factory produces an incredible 100 cars per hour.
We sell tinned goods and fresh produce in our shop.
These two plates are factory rejects because they’re slightly cracked in the middle.
The agency sent five possible candidates for the job and we rejected two.
Genetic engineering is very much a subject for debate.
He didn’ want to subject his child to the long journey.
The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to parts on the coast.
Word-formation
Ex.4. Using the endings -er, -or, -ian, -ee, -ant and -ist, change each of the following words into a noun referring to people.
Model: law +-er → lawyer; audit + -or → auditor.
Technical, employ, consult, scientific, drive, program, propriety, music, train, act, art, bake, bike, carry, correspond, dental, football, govern, humour, instruct, jog.
Ex.5. Complete each sentence with a noun that refers to the type of person described.
He works at the reception desk so he is a __________ .
To do this work an employer had to hire a new __________ .
She wants to work for the legal department so she is a __________ .
As an __________ he audits the company’s accounts.
She plays the violin perfectly so she is a __________ .
He studied electricity and became an __________ .
She works for a very popular newspaper so she is a __________ .
He reports on sport events for the ICTV so he is a __________ .
Over 100 people applied for the job; we didn’t expect so many __________ .
I’ve got bad toothache; I need to go to the __________ .
Ex.6. Make up nouns from the verbs and adjectives given.
Verb → Noun: accept, promote, enter, initiate, occur, protect, store, waste, refer, recruit.
Adjective → Noun: effective, free, reliable, social, real,aware,liable, important, competitive, industrial.