- •Technology and business
- •Contents
- •Unit 1. Computer Graphics and Web Design
- •1. Answer the following questions:
- •2. Match web terms with their definitions:
- •3. Fill in the sentences using the terms suggested above:
- •6. Answer the following questions:
- •7. Transcribe and translate the words given below. Find them in the text and make up sentences.
- •8. Translate the sentences from Russian into English:
- •9. Match the types of computer graphics applied for the web-site creation with their pictures:
- •10. Project Work. Our Group's Web-site.
- •Unit 2. Working with design
- •The stages of Design Process
- •Investigating
- •1. E 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
- •Unit 3. Art and Painting
- •2. Study the Active Vocabulary.
- •3. Read the text about arts and translate it using a dictionary. Art for heart’s sake
- •4. Answer the following questions:
- •5. Study the word combinations and phrases, find them in the text and retell the part of the text in which they were used.
- •6. Translate the sentences using word combinations and phrases.
- •7. Give Russian equivalents for the following English proverbs and sayings (or translate them into Russian). Make up a dialogue to illustrate one of the proverbs:
- •8. Match some important trends in the world art with their definition.
- •9. Conduct research into one of the trends in the world art. Make a report for your group, supply it with pictures, illustrating the trend and name the famous painters, representing it.
- •3. Read the text. Types and Forms of business in the uk and the usa
- •4. A) Translate underlined words and phrases in the text b)Make sentences with these words and phrases.
- •5. Make a table about types and forms of business
- •6. Translate the following sentences:
- •7. Mind the difference and insert the right word: company, firm,
- •8. Render the text.
- •9. Project work.Look at the chart and with its help compare the types of business in the uk and the usa. Choose one type and tell about your own business according to one of them.
- •Unit 5. Advertisement
- •6. Answer the following questions:
- •7. Translate the following sentences:
- •8. Put the key sentences in order, divide into small groups and speak about some aspects of advertising:
- •9. Render the text.
- •10. Work with a partner.
- •12. Project work. Role play.
- •Literature
- •Outline for describing a picture
- •Vocabulary for describing a picture.
- •Advertisement composition outline:
4. A) Translate underlined words and phrases in the text b)Make sentences with these words and phrases.
5. Make a table about types and forms of business
Type\Form of business |
Definition and description |
Sole proprietorship |
………………………………… |
6. Translate the following sentences:
1. Владельцы генеральных товариществ несут ответственность по долгам и участвуют в распределении прибыли. 2. Владельцы товариществ с ограниченной ответственностью делают ограниченные инвестиции и несут ограниченную ответственность. 3. Акционеры обычных корпораций мало интересуются вопросами управления корпорации. 4. Акционеры различных корпораций обычно имеют сертификаты, где указано количество акций, которые они имеют. 5. Большинство корпораций - это корпорации закрытого типа с небольшим числом акционеров. 6. Корпорации должны получить регистрационные документы от властей штата. 7. Корпорации должны получить сертификат (лицензию) в том штате, где они хотят функционировать.
7. Mind the difference and insert the right word: company, firm,
enterprise.
1. company - a group of people combined together for business, trade, artistic purposes, etc.; note the use of the preposition "for" e.g. to work for a steel company.
2. firm - (two or more) persons carrying on a business; note that "firm" is preferable to "company" in any style when followed by «of».
3. enterprise - undertaking, esp. one that needs courage or that offers difficulty; carrying on of enterprises, e.g. private enterprise versus government control of commerce and industry. Enterprise is not widely used in the sense of a business organization.
1. When she left school she got a job with a publishing ... .2. This ... produces a wide range of high-quality leather goods. 3. The ... he works for is closing two of its factories so he may be made redundant soon. 4. The famous English conductor and producer Sir Thomas Beecham showed great ... in inviting the Russian opera to London for the first time in 1913 and renting Drury Lane Theatre for the season because his associates at Covent Garden did not think that such a tour would be successful. 5. The Baltic Shipping ... was established in 1922. 6. They offered the contract to a local building .... 7. The actors are English but the film was made by an American film .... 8. Her husband works for a civil engineering ... in Bristol. 9. A mixed economy is one with a combination of nationalization and private ... . 10. "Twinings" is a famous English ... of tea merchants.
8. Render the text.
9. Project work.Look at the chart and with its help compare the types of business in the uk and the usa. Choose one type and tell about your own business according to one of them.
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Great Britain
the USA
sole traders
individual businesses
partnerships
general and limited partnerships
public/private limited liability companies
corporations (closed and ordinary)
branches of foreign companies charter, statutes, memorandum, delivered by the company and certificate of incorporation, issued by the Register
alien corporations charter and certificate issued by the state authorities