- •080109.65 - «Бухгалтерский учет, анализ и аудит»,
- •Г.А. Дубинина и.Ф. Драчинская
- •Учебные задания по английскому языку
- •Лингафонному курсу «Язык бизнеса»
- •080105.65 - «Финансы и кредит»,
- •Who’s Who in the Company
- •Ian Hampden, Ian - Personnel Manager Green, Jack - Shop steward
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 4
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Sum up everything you came to know from the unit about
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •7. What difficulties and problems do good employee-management relations present?
- •8. In what way do the management regulate the going-on activities?
- •9. What does the work of a Personnel Manager entail?
- •Listening Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Illustration 1
- •Phrase list
- •5. What does the Balance Sheet show?
- •6. Why is stock valuation a mixed blessing?
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Post-listening Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Explain why and how hi-jackers stole office-furniture.
Post-listening
1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
the advantages and disadvantages of the order under discussion for Harper & Grant Ltd.;
the requirements of the supplier as to the method of payment;
the special requirements of a buyer and the way the supplier managed to meet them;
measures taken in order to guard against a loss owing to currency fluctuations.
Recount the situation as if you were Hector Grant. Account for your choice of the terms of payment and delivery and the reason why you agreed to a lower price.
Suppose you are Mr. Mahawi, the government representative. You are making arrangements to order goods from Harper & Grant Ltd. Speak about the particulars of the quotation, the terms of payment and delivery.
Act out
a conversation between Mr. Mahawi and John Martin. Discuss the quotation, terms of payment and delivery. Try to bargain.
an imaginary talk between Mr. Mahawi and his Minister after the visit to Harper & Grant Ltd.
Unit 17 |
The New Board of Directors |
Phrase list
Listen to the tape and practise the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations, quote the sentences in which they are used in the unit. Consult a dictionary and translate them into Russian.
to upset the balance of power
to postpone the possibility (of a takeover)
to be over-weighed with somebody / something
to be tempted away by somebody
budgetary control
to introduce monthly accounting by cost centres
to draw up quarterly accounts
to sound somebody out
to have everything one’s own way
to balance somebody’s power
to put something forward
the Rules of Association
the qualification holding
to put somebody in the picture
to offer somebody a directorship
to be a counter to somebody
to draft (suitable) minutes about proposals
to table recommendations (on budgetary control)
to give an outline of something
to do the accounts
to reduce personnel
PRE-LISTENING
Task I
Consider the introduction to the unit. Answer the following questions and be ready to give a story line. Use the word combinations in brackets.
1. What changes occurred in the structure of the capital of Harper & Grant Ltd. after Hector Grant postponed the possibility of a takeover?
(to buy two hundred and fifty more shares in the company; the remaining two hundred and fifty shares; the rather dynamic owner of a neighbouring mattress factory; to own a large proportion of the shares; be asked to join the Board)
2. In what way did the death of the Chairman, Ambrose Harper, upset the balance of power on the Board of Directors of Harper & Grant Ltd.?
(to become the next Chairman; the present members of the Board; Chairman and Managing Director; to be invited by the Board to become a director; to attend Board meetings; to leave somebody to act for somebody; the Company Secretary)
3. Why does Peter think it is high time John Martin was made a director?
(to have a very successful year; to increase sales by almost forty per cent in the two years; to join the firm; to be an added support for himself; to be overweighed with somebody; to have an up-to-date outlook on business; to be tempted away by somebody; to make it worth somebody’s while to stay)
4. What changes in financial control does William Buckhurst initiate?
(to discuss budgetary control; to attended a course on something; to introduce monthly accounting by cost centres; to have information about the company's trading position more accurately and more often than at present)
5. How does William Buckhurst explain the necessity of monthly accounts?
(to be the forward plan; to spend, to make and to sell during a specific period; a record of what has actually been bought, sold and spent; to be drawn up every three months in a financial year; to discover the profits and losses more often to keep a firmer control; modern management)
Task2
Give the English equivalents for the following word combinations:
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LISTENING
Exercise 1
You are going to hear a talk between Peter Wiles and John Martin. Before you listen to the conversation look at these statements, which you will mark T (True) or F (False) after you have listened to the tape.
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John Martin didn’t deny that Harper's death had caused a big change in the control of Harper & Grant Ltd. |
2. |
Hector Grant is a strong personality and Harper couldn't have everything his own way while he was Chairman; Peter wanted to balance H.G.’s power a bit by having John on the Board. |
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John Martin was asked to join the Board now that he owned more shares. |
4. |
Peter Wiles had a chance to get John elected, because H.G. wanted to strengthen his position in case A.Wentworth tried to make things go his way. |
5. |
The Rules of Association drawn up by H.G. state that the qualification holding is only two shares. |
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As a director Peter held only two shares while his mother nine hundred and ninety-eight. |