- •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
Language skills
Ex.11. Ask questions to which the following sentences may be answers.
The choices about an economy’s use of its factors of production, the resources available to it for the production of goods and services.
The value, or satisfaction, that people derive from the goods and services they consume and the activities they pursue.
Labour, capital, enterprise and natural resources.
The human effort that can be applied to the production of goods and services.
People who are employed or would like to be.
A factor of production that has been produced for use in the production of other goods and services.
Office buildings, machinery, and tools.
The activities of profit-seeking decision makers who determine which economic activities to undertake and how they should be implemented.
The resources of nature that can be used for the production of goods and services.
Information.
It means all natural resources and agents, with their sites (locations and extensions in space).
Through education and training.
In many important aspects.
The capacity of users to analyze, store and retrieve information.
Through the selection and compression of information into knowledge and wisdom.
Ex.12. Answer the following questions.
What are the choices concerning what goods and services to produce?
What does the term “utility” mean?
What are the factors of production in an economy?
What can be applied to the production of goods and services?
What does capital represent?
What are natural resources?
What does the factor of production land comprise?
What does economicland exclude?
Why is land supply fixed?
In what case will labour’s contribution to productive output increase?
What forms of labour are there?
What does demand for labour depend on?
What is the quantityof labour?
What forms of wages are there?
What are the salient characteristics of information?
Ex.13. From your local paper collect advertisements or articles for each of the factors of production. Labour should be easy - job vacancy adverts. But the others will be slightly more difficult.
Ex.14. Make a presentation of the topic “Factors of production”.
Writing
Ex.15. Write a plan of your summary based on Text A.
Ex.16. Using your plan as a base, write a brief summary (25-30 sentences) of the text.
Ex.17. Write an essay (100 – 150 words) about:
the importance of factors of production in an economy.
DISCUSSION POINTS
Ex.18. Discuss the following.
How many factors of production are there in an economy?
Briefly define each factor of production.
Why are the factors interdependent? Explain.
What is capital?
What is wealth? Give an example.
Why is land considered a passive factor of production?
How do capital and labour differ from land?
How has the workforce changed in Ukraine for the last 25 years?
What factors have contributed to those changes?
How have those changes affect your life and culture?
Why is it important to understand how terms are used in different contexts?
Ex.19.Consider the factors of production that went into the making of one sheet of notebook paper. Name some of them.
Example: Suppose you go to the supermarket and buy a box of corn flakes. Each of factors of production went into the making of this cereal. For example, some of the things used in the production and distribution of the corn flakes are: box-making machinery, fertilizer, a storage warehouse, prairie or farmland, farm machinery, delivery truck and driver, wholesale middleman, retail grocery store, store clerk, etc.
Ex.20. Look through product advertisements in magazines, on the internet, innewspapers, or elsewhere. Choose any two products to investigate.
Cut out the advertisement or draw a picture of each product. Design a chart titled “Factors of Production.” Do this for each product. List all of the resources (land, labour, capital, producer) utilized to create the product. Then, label each resource on your list as land, labour, capital, or business (producer / enterprise).