- •1. Discuss these questions.
- •2. Read the text.
- •7. Cross out the incorrect sentence in each pair.
- •8. Write the time expressions from the box under the correct heading.
- •9. Transfer the sentences from Active into Passive.
- •10. Work in groups of three. Student a reads the first text; Student b reads the second text; Student c reads the third text. Text 1. Double Your Money
- •Text 2. Buying Without Shops
- •Text 3. Pay Before You Talk
- •11. Complete the parts of the chart which relate to your text.
- •12. Exchange information and complete all the sections of the chart.
- •13. Say what were these people doing when they had their great ideas?
- •14. Complete the story below with the past simple or past continuous forms of the verbs in brackets.
- •15. Read the text and think of its heading.
- •16. Make up the plan of the text.
- •17. Summarize the text. Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты.
- •1. Read the text. What do these numbers in the text refer to?
- •Cosmopolitan readers queue for Tube job
- •2. Answer the questions.
- •3. Rearrange the words in 1 to 9 to make questions from a job interview. Then decide whether each questions is a) making a request, b) making an offer or c) asking about ability.
- •Неличные формы глагола. Причастие. Герундий.
- •1. Discuss these questions.
- •The arrival of virtual pocket money
- •4. Which of these statements are true?
- •5. Read and translate the text in writing. Theory of Demand.
- •Определительные и дополнительные придаточные предложения.
- •1. Read the text.
- •Wholesaling
- •2. Answer the questions.
- •3. Choose the necessary word and put it in the sentence.
- •Придаточные предложения времени и условия
- •1. Change the sentences according to the model.
- •2. Make up the conditional sentences.
- •3. Read the text. It has two parts:
- •4. Answer the questions.
- •5. Which of thise statements are false? Why?
- •III семестр Повторение видо-временных форм английского глагола.
- •1. Read the text.
- •Where and how to hire an employee?
- •2. Answer the questions.
- •3. Choose the necessary word and put it in the sentence.
- •4. Complete the sentences below with the Present Simple, Present Progressive and Present Perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.
- •Грамматические функции и значения слов that, it, one.
- •1. Discuss the questions.
- •2. Read the text. Partnerships
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Match the necessary word to the sentence.
- •5. Make up a plan to the text.
- •6. Summerize the text.
- •7. Put up four questions of different types (general, special, disjunctive, alternative) to each sentence.
- •Corporate finance
- •8. Read the text.
- •9. Answer the questions.
- •10. Match the necessary word to the sentences.
- •11. Find out firm the text sentences with the Gerund and Participle I/II. Define their functions.
- •12. Read the text and think of its heading.
- •Неличные формы глаголов. Инфинитив.
- •1. Wich of the following words do you associate with Brazil?
- •2. Read the first paragraph o the text and check your answers to Exercise 1.
- •3. Read the rest of the text. Brazil tries to kick-start tourism
- •4. Answer the questions.
- •5. Imagine you are planning a new resort in your own country. Discuss these questions.
- •Условные придаточные предложения.
- •1. Read the text.
- •Marketing
- •2. Answer the questions.
- •3. Transform the sentences of real condition into the sentences of unreal condition.
- •4. Correct the grammatical mistakes in the sentences below.
- •5. Combine phrases from columns a and b to make conditional sentences. More than one answer may be possible in each case.
- •6. Discuss the following questions in pairs.
- •Texts for Extra Reading Corporate entertaining in Japan.
- •Selling dreams
- •The international manager
- •Success in the shadow of Etna
- •Background
- •Kiwifruit growers hope to strike gold with new product
5. Combine phrases from columns a and b to make conditional sentences. More than one answer may be possible in each case.
A
pay in euros
order today
finish everything tonight
deliver by the end of the month
give us a one-year guarantee
exceed the sales target
pay all the advertising costs
sign the contract now
B
pay you a higher commission
offer you a special discount
reduce the price
give you a signing-on bonus
pay all the transport costs
give you a 5% discount
deliver within seven days
give you the day off tomorrow
6. Discuss the following questions in pairs.
What would you do if:
you saw two colleagues having an argument? I wouldn't get involved.
a colleague criticised you?
you saw a colleague stealing something?
your boss never listened to your ideas?
your boss asked you to work till midnight?
Texts for Extra Reading Corporate entertaining in Japan.
Hisako Saka, a hostess at a bar called Bouquet in Tokyo's high-class entertainment area, is complaining. 'Customers go home before the last train and order far fewer drinks. They are less cheerful and talk about restructuring all the time,' she said.
'Fewer girls are deciding to become hostesses. My salary has halved.' Corporate entertaining is in steep decline. Newly released figures from Japan's National Taxation Administration have revealed that Japanese companies spent 13.3 percent less on entertaining and gifts in the year to last January than in the previous year.
The latest figures show spending on entertainment at its second lowest level since records began in 1961. The decline indicates that the high spending days of the 1980s are over and that a new phenomenon – cost control - has entered the corporate dictionary.
As the credit environment has tightened, losses have multiplied, restructuring has taken hold and the concept of shareholder value has crossed the Pacific, leading to entertainment budgets being cut. In the boom days some executives would think little of running up a £7,000 bill in one night entertaining an important client. These days the entertainment still goes on hut at more modest establishments. Cheaper restaurants are busier and karaoke parlours are being chosen over expensive nightclubs. Kunio Sato, a bar owner for the past 35 years in Ginza, Tokyo's most famous entertainment area, said sadly, 'Companies are much stricter these days with what they will let their employees spend compared with the old days.'
The cost cutting does not end at the bar. Some of Japan's huge conglomerates have cut down ritual corporate gift giving. Budgets for gifts at New Year have, in some cases, been cancelled, forcing employees to buy the gifts themselves, according to an employee at one large conglomerate.
From the outside, the discovery by Japanese companies of basic cost control can be seen as an encouraging development in an economy that had previously let spending run wild.
From the Financial Times
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World business newspaper.