7. Forms of business activity.

To start as a result of a study

To reveal the existence of a new market in cargo transport

To have enormous problems

To move heavy and large objects from one place to another

To identify the market

The concept behind the company

To lift heavy units and transport them over long distance

To get the project running

To do a feasibility study

To set up the company

To raise venture capital

To take the risk

8. Getting the Right Job. The Importance of maintaining work-life balance.

Invest in staff training and development

To meet our principles of good practice for training and development

To provide staff with regular briefings, frequent feedback and review meetings

To equip staff with new skills

To pass a number of job-related tests

Aptitude for the work

To get on with people

A close-knit group

To keep one’s interest high

To get a kick out

To keep a tally of

To compensate

Good holiday arrangements

An excellent pension scheme

Health provision

Personal fitness

Sports facilities

On hand

Prospects for promotion

9. The main twentieth century problems which affect your life and your country.

The most pressing problem

Worry about your child getting to school safely

Be made to feel afraid

To go out at night and not feel afraid

Effective law enforcement

Stricter laws

Cameras all over the place

Help to control the crime rate

Be spooky

Combat crime

Better social welfare

Be out of work

Enough (plenty) to go round (around)

To see themselves without a way to earn their bread and butter

To send them back to school

Set up retraining course

Loneliness

To get no one to talk with

To be invisible to most people

Live miles away

The elderly

Set up senior citizen’s groups

10. Technological Progress : Curse or blessing.

It sounds corny

To type everything on the word processor

To communicate with my superior here by e-mail

To exchange daily emails with my parent

To live in remote areas

Immediate access to medical attention

To travel an average of 70 miles to get to GP

A video link

To conduct the examination

To make the diagnosis

To prescribe the treatment

A combination of advanced computing and state-of-art telecommunications

The most successful human-centred application of modern technology

A heat-seeking device

To work through a special camera

To follow a suspect in places where visual contact is impossible

A palmtop computer

To fit in your pocket

To remember things for me

A flight simulator

To strap yourself in the seat

The booth is the exact size of an A300 cockpit

The trainee pilot

To control flight conditions from this console here

To have a malfunction

Simulations of high alarm

To set you back about four hundred thousand

11. The Importance of Getting a Degree. It’s never too late to learn

It’s been almost … years since that day, but I still remember it only too well.

What made us all stick together – pupils, parents and teachers

To come up with the most brilliant ideas for classroom activities

I got really fed up with …

Workload

To learn to be organized with studies

To go to a public school (state school)

The major advantage of a state school is that…

There are advantages and disadvantages to both

To be free

To be quite expensive

It is worth spending money to get a better education

To afford smth

To have better instructors and facilities

What’s great about state school?

The mix of students

There is not too much of a variety of people attending

The different types of people at a state school would make it more interesting

A big advantage of going to a public school is the connections you make

The better employers look for people first in public school