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50. Complete the table about the cards which are mentioned.

CARD

ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES / CONDITIONS

Diner’s Club (in 1958)

Early bank cards

offered credit

BankAmerica / Visa

debts can build up

51. Label the timeline with key details about the evolution of the credit card, taken from the text.

1958

1960s

1970

Nowadays

Card was licensed by the banks

52. Read the text below and answer the questions.

  1. Which is more important to you: your time or your money?

  2. The following daily activities all take up important time. Which would you pay someone to do?

  • supermarket shopping

  • walking your dog

  • cleaning

  • housework

  • ironing

  • cooking

Economics professor, Ian Walker, of Warwick University, has written a mathematical formula so that we can calculate how much time costs. For example, the average British minute is worth about £0.13. Brushing your

teeth for three minutes uses up £0.4 in ‘lost’ time, and washing a car by hand has a cost of £4.50. The study found that the typical cost of cooking dinner (the value of time spent + the value of the ingredients) was £15.43!

(from ProFile1)

53. Read what four people said about their time at work and answer the questions below.

Мужик в очках

Dario: ‘I waste too much time in the car. I spend about two hours a day getting to the office and back. By the time I get home I’m really tired.’

Просто мужик молодой

Lukas: ‘We have to meet two or three urgent deadlines nearly every week or there is trouble.’

Девушка японка

Hanako: ‘We’ve invested a lot of money in product development this year which will reduce our lead time in future.’

Еще одна китаянка

Izumo: ‘I can save a lot of time by using a new software program to organize my work schedule.’

Who:

  1. must finish his / her work on time? ……;

  2. has found a way to do something more quickly? ……;

  3. has spent time and money on improving the business? ……;

  4. thinks he / she uses his / her time badly? …… .

54. Match the words in box a with those in box b.

Сделать цветным!

A

B

have

waste / save

meet

invest in

an urgent deadline

a busy lifestyle

new machinery / technology

time or money

55. Read the text below about a German electronics wholesaler and his problems with time. Match the words in italics in the text below to the definitions (1-6).

1) time from the customer’s order to delivery ……;

2) when something is late ……;

3) arrival of goods at a person’s or company’s address ……;

4) sending products from the factory ……;

5) all the stages leading to a result ……;

6) the latest time for completing a task …… .

Машина дальнобойщика

Сделать цветным!

Getting our products to our customers is a long and difficult process. Our main problem is time. Customers order our printers and then we have to arrange delivery to their offices. The problem is that we make the printers in the UK and it can take a long time for our factory to dispatch the printers to our customers in Germany. This can take a long time. Sometimes we miss deadlines:

we say we want the printers with the customer in two weeks, but they often get them four weeks later! There are many reasons for the delays: the factory is too busy, problems with the paperwork, etc. To be successful, we need to keep our lead time short – it shouldn’t take longer than two weeks from the customer’s order to the moment the printer arrives at their office.

(from ProFile1)

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