Exercise 110
In this picture Ann’s desk is on the left and Simon’s desk is on the right.
Pic. 2. The office.
Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences, like this:
These are two telephones on Ann’s desk. - True
There are two word processors in the room. - False. There is one word processor in the room.
There is a photocopier on the table.
There is a pot plant in a filing cabinet.
The notice board is next to the shelves.
The graph is between the notice board and the shelves.
There is a book on the bottom shelf.
There are ten filing cabinets.
There is a word processor on Simon’s desk.
The wastepaper bin is under the table.
The coffee pot is on the top shelf.
There are three trays on the table.
There is a calculator on Ann’s desk.
The graph is on the wall above the table.
There are two typewriters in the room.
Exercise 111
In pairs, describe where something is in Ann’s office, like this:
Where is Ann’s desk? It’s on the left.
Where’s the calculator? It’s on Simon’s desk.
Is the computer on Ann’s desk? No, it isn’t.
Is the graph on the wall? Yes, it is.
Exercise 112
Can you make twelve or more sentences from these words?
this desk under what is a in are your office that the ? on telephone these books those
What is that?
Those are your books.
Exercise 113
Read and translate the text.
This is an office. There are two people in it. They are a man and a woman. They are at the desk. The desk is in front of the window. But the window is behind the people.
There is a small table below the window. There is a photocopier on the table. To the right of the window there is a clock on the wall. Next to the clock you can see a notice board. There is a calender on the board. Below the notice board there is a computer on the table.
To the left of the woman you can see three trays, a pot plant and a desk lamp. Next to the lamp and in front of the woman there is a telephone. In the middle of this desk there are some magazines. There are two pencils in front of the man.
The wastepaper bin is under the desk. There are many bookshelves to the right of the door. There is a radio on the top shelf.
Exercise 114
Translate from Russian into English.
Где карты (maps)?
Карты на стене.
Где компьютеры?
Компьютеры на столах.
Где файлы?
Файлы в нижнем ящике стола.
Где автоответчик (answering mashine)?
Автоответчик в приемной
Где доска объявлений?
Доска объявлений над столом справа от окна.
Где книги по продажам?
Книги по продажам на нижнй полке.
Где факс?
Факс на маленьком столике под окном.
Exercise 115
Read and translate the text.
The Office
When we see or hear the word “business”, however we think first of all not of different shops, factories or mines, but offices. Modern business is done chiefly there, a day of a modern businessman is a day spent at an office. That is probably why business people pay so much attention to the way their offices look like.
I am sure you can easily imagine this place.
Usually it’s situated in a large or not very large well-planned building somewhere in the centre or in a prestige district of the city. An office should be light and clean and have necessary comfortable furniture of good quality. One more very important thing is the air. It should always be fresh and neither hot nor cold. For this purpose a lot of modern businessmen use various types of air-conditioners.
Office work usually means different forms of communication. A businessman often needs to speak to other people and he can do this by using the telephone, which is an important part of the communications system. The head of a large firm usually has two telephones on his desk. One is a usual telephone, which connects the businessman with other people in the town and in other countries. But the other one is connected to a private internal system and this makes it possible for members of the staff in different parts of the same building to talk to one another without leaving their rooms.
A businessman also communicates by writing. But he doesn’t write his letters himself, he dictates them to his secretary, usually a woman, who types them on a typewriter or with the help of a computer, and then takes them to be signed.
After that she posts all the letters or sends them using fax. Thus we can say for sure that different technical means and equipment like personal computer, fax, photocopier, printer occupy a considerable part of the office interior.
And of course speaking about offices of any kind we shouldn’t forget the person, who actually organizes the work there, who arranges meetings, makes appointments, cancels them, does most of the paper-work and answers telephone calls thus helping her boss in his business.
Exercise 116
Read the fax.