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Task 1. Match the sentences 1-15 with the situations a-o below:

1. Gerber is one of the best known brands of baby food products in the United States,

a) to try to prevent them behaving unethically.

2. Babies are innocent and helpless and Gerber bad built its reputation

b) to avoid racial or sex discrimination.

3. Some organizations have a code of ethics or code of conduct where they say what their managers' and employees' behavior should be,

c) that some of its products contained very small quantities of a dangerous substance.

4. The firm says it operated a “heightist” policy because it was afraid

d) to see how they are doing in these areas.

5. In management in the US, they have an affirmative action program,

e) which sometimes affects women or people from racial minorities

6. Companies sometimes have to handle negative publicity

f) so it immediately recalled 550,000 jars.

7. Someone threatened to contaminate a brand of baby food

g) on providing them with the safest and highest quality products

8. A manufacturer of a well-known chocolate bar failed to warn customers

h) that tall workers would suffer back and neck injury.

10. An inspection of 36,000 jars showed that even the largest pieces of glass were

j) that Mr Kraiser’s application had been refused because it appeared arrogant.

11. A firm may accidentally contaminate a product during production,

k) when things go wrong.

12. Every year, they ask an independent expert to do a "social performance audit'

l) in such cases they have to recall the product.

13. A producer of soft drinks discovered

m) unless they received 1 million.

14. The glass ceiling is a form of discrimination

n) by underpaying them or making them work long hours.

15. The solicitor representing the car company said

o) that some of its bars contained contaminated cocoa beans.

Task 2. Match the word with its definition:

2. Steps taken in the US to avoid discrimination:…… action program, (11)

5.When manual workers are employed in bad conditions with very low pay (BrE). (9,6)

7. When one group of people is unfairly treated differently from another. (14)

10. To pay people badly and make them work in bad conditions (BrE). (7)

11. See 4 down,

13. See 3 down.

1. If your actions do not harm people or the environment, you are socially

(11)

3,13. across Putting money into activities that do not harm people or the environment -

(7,1 1)

4,11. across Topics relating to the environment.(5,6)

6. The world around us, (11)

8. Someone who takes direct action on social or other issues. (8)

9.A written set of rules or behaviour. (4)

Unit 4 letter writing

1. Why do people write letters?

2. What types of letters do you know?

3. What is a business letter?

Task I. Read and translate the text.