- •Business English
- •Unit 1 Being an economist
- •1. Reading. Read the article and find the following:
- •Working in a foreign country
- •2. Read the article again. Are these statements true or false?
- •3. Speaking. Do you like the idea of working in a different country as part of your job? What countries do you think are interesting to work in?
- •4. Complete the table with a country or nationality. 1-5 are from the article. Use a dictionary to help you with 6-12.
- •8 (1). Listening. Listen to the conversation and answer the questions.
- •9. Speaking. Use the information from the table. Introduce yourself to your partner and ask questions.
- •11. Read the text and explain the words in bold. What is Economics?
- •Unit 2 Money
- •3 (2). Listening. Listen and complete the information.
- •4. Reading. Read the article and answer the question:
- •The Business of Giving
- •5. Read the article again and answer the questions.
- •11. Speaking. How much do the items in the table cost in your country? Is the cost of living high in your country? Where is the cost of living low?
- •12. Read the text and explain the words in bold. Money
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 3 Economy
- •2. Reading. Read the article below. Write t (true) or f (false) under “What the article says” in the previous exercise.
- •An Economy
- •Vocabulary
- •8. Give Russian equivalents:
- •9. Choose words from the list to fill in the gaps, then use them to make sentences:
- •10. Answer the questions:
- •11. Make notes under the following headings:
- •Unit 4 Company
- •1 (5). Listening. Listen and practice.
- •2. Translate the following words.
- •3. Put places above in the correct group. Add more for each sector.
- •4. Reading. Read the article. Which of the following best describes the subject of the article?
- •Look east
- •5. Are these statements true or false?
- •6. Match the numbers 1-6 with the information they describe a-f.
- •7. Speaking. Think of three more luxury goods companies. What products do they make and sell? Are they family or multinational companies?
- •8. Word families. Complete the table.
- •9. Complete the sentences with the correct word in italics.
- •10. Complete the text with the correct word from the table above. There may be more than one possible answer.
- •11(6). Listening. Sam and Alex work for the training company. Listen to their telephone conversation and answer the questions.
- •12. Company information.
- •13 (7). Listening. Listen to Miles Norton answering questions about his company. Find suitable answers to the questions in exercise 12.
- •14. Work with a partner. Ask questions about his/her company.
- •15. Read the text. Planned Economy
- •Unit 5 Company history
- •Ford of Britain
- •4. What do these numbers from the text refer to?
- •5. Complete these sentences.
- •6. Reading. Read this history of Dr. Martens Shoes. The writer uses present tense to make the summary seem ‘alive’. Change the verbs into past tense while reading.
- •Dr. Martens
- •7(10). Listening. Faith Walker talks about her first pair of Dr. Martens (dMs). Listen, fill in the gaps and then answer the questions.
- •8. Speaking. Speak on the history of the company you know.
- •9. Read the text and explain the words in bold. Market Economy
- •Vocabulary
- •10. Give Russian equivalents:
- •11. Choose words from the list to fill in the gaps, then use them to make sentences:
- •Unit 6 Company structure (a) Jobs
- •4. Reading. Read the text about the French company Perrier Vittel and fill in the gaps. Use the words in the box.
- •Perrier Vittel
- •5. Look at the organization chart. Use the information from the text above to complete the missing information. The first is done for you. Give the summary of the text.
- •6. Read the text and explain the words in bold. Mixed Economy
- •Unit 7 Company structure (b) Departments
- •2. Where do these people usually work?
- •3 (12). Listening. At a budget meeting four managers talk about their departments. Listen and complete the table below.
- •4. Listen again and complete these sentences.
- •5. Speaking. Think about your department or the department you’d like to work in. Draw an organization chart. Use the phrases from the box below to give a short presentation about your department.
- •6. Read the text and explain the words in bold. A Market
- •Unit 8 Business travel
- •2. Discuss the questions.
- •3. Match the words with the correct picture.
- •4. Complete the sentences with some of the words above.
- •6. Complete the headings in the text with the words in the exercise above. Results from a survey: Business travel is boring!
- •7. Match the words in bold in the text above to these definitions.
- •8. Discuss these questions.
- •9 (14). Listening. Listen to the conversation at the check-in desk and look at the departure board. What is the flight number and destination?
- •10. Listen again. Complete the conversation and check. Reproduce it with your partner.
- •11 (15). Listening. Listen to Colin Knapp talking about travelling to the Far East and answer the questions.
- •12. Discuss these questions.
- •13. Speaking. Speak on the transport you prefer for business and pleasure travelling. Give examples of advantages and disadvantages of different means of transport.
- •14. Read the text and explain the words in bold. Financial Market
- •Vocabulary
- •15. Give Russian equivalents:
- •16. Choose words from the list to fill in the gaps, then use them to make sentences:
- •17. Answer the questions:
- •18. Use words/phrases from the list to help you retell the text:
- •Supplementary reading The Economy of Great Britain
- •The Economy of Germany
- •The Economy of France
- •The Economy of Spain
- •The Economy of Italy
- •The Economy of the Netherlands
- •Contents
Федеральное агентство морского
и речного транспорта
Федеральное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования
Волжская государственная академия водного транспорта
Кафедра иностранных языков
Ю.Р. Гуро – Фролова,
О.Б. Соловьева
Business English
Учебное пособие
для студентов 1 курса экономических специальностей
Нижний Новгород – 2012
Федеральное агентство морского и
речного транспорта
Федеральное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования
Волжская государственная академия водного транспорта
Кафедра иностранных языков
Ю.Р. Гуро – Фролова,
О.Б. Соловьева
Business English
Учебное пособие
для студентов 1 курса экономических специальностей очной формы обучения
Нижний Новгород
Издательство ФБОУ ВПО «ВГАВТ»
2012
УДК 811.111
Г 95
Рецензент: к.п.н. Чувилина О.В.
Гуро – Фролова Ю.Р., Соловьева О.Б.
Business English: учебное пособие для студентов 1 курса очной формы обучения экономических специальностей / Ю.Р. Гуро – Фролова, О.Б. Соловьева. – Н. Новгород: Изд-во ФБОУ ВПО «ВГАВТ», 2012. – 49 с.
Целью данного пособия является развитие умений во всех видах речевой деятельности на основе профессионально-ориентированных тем. Система упражнений направлена в первую очередь на формирование и развитие лексических, коммуникативных навыков, а также умений чтения и перевода со словарем текстов по специальности. Материал пособия организован в виде тематических уроков. К пособию прилагается диск с аудиоматериалами.
Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов 1 курса очной формы обучения по специальности 080100 «Экономика (бакалавриат)», а также может быть использовано для специальности 080200 «Экономика (менеджмент)».
Работа рекомендована к изданию кафедрой иностранных языков (протокол № 2 от 10 октября 2011 г.).
© ФБОУ ВПО «ВГАВТ», 2012
Unit 1 Being an economist
1. Reading. Read the article and find the following:
1. Carlos Ghosn’s nationality Brazilian.
2. Two companies that he works for _______.
3. A city in Asia _________.
4. Three European cities ________.
5. A country in Asia __________.
New words from the article:
foreign |
иностранный, зарубежный |
the head of the company |
глава компании |
employee |
работник |
it (informational technology) |
информационная технология |
to commute |
перемещаться на работу и с работы |
tax |
налог |
ticket |
билет |
expensive |
дорогой |
increase |
увеличение |
government |
правительство |
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Working in a foreign country
Today more and more people travel in their job. Carlos Ghosn is a Brazilian businessman and he travels to different countries for his work. He is the head of the French car company Renault, and he spends 40 per cent of his time in Paris. He is also the head of Nissan, and he spends 35 per cent of his time in Asia, in Tokyo. He spends 25 % of his time in other countries, such as the USA.
Some employees travel to different countries to work on projects. They are in the country until the project ends and then they return home. For example, many IT engineers live in India but work on projects in the USA. Other people live in a country but go to work every day to a different country. In Europe, workers regularly commute between Brussels, London and Paris. Plane tickets are not expensive and travel between the cities is easy with a European passport.
But is the increase in business travel a good thing? It is interesting for employees to meet different nationalities. It is also good for business to have contacts in different countries around the world. But there are also problems. Some employees spend a lot of time away from their home country and it is not easy for governments to decide exactly where workers should pay tax.