Additional tasks

1. Find some information about some successful companies that operate globally and try to describe why they’re successful.

Example: Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.

Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees (Forbes 400 list revealed that in March 2011 both Jon Shipley and Nathan Myhrvold lost their billionaire status). In May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications for $8.5 billion. <…>

2. Find some hot news about economical status in different countries, read them and prepare a short speech with some extracts from the articles. In your speech, you should mention the major idea.

NOTE: It’s strongly recommended to use foreign websites for preparing an article!!!

Example: The Proust index - Advanced economies have gone backwards

http://www.economist.com/node/21548255

<…> NOW almost five years old, the economic crisis rumbles on. In order to assess how much economic progress it has undone, The Economist has constructed a measure of lost time for hard-hit countries. It shows that Greece’s economic clock has been turned back furthest: it has been rewound by over 12 years. Elsewhere in the euro area, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain have lost seven years or more. Britain, the first country forced to rescue a credit-crunched bank, has lost eight years. America, where the trouble started, has lost ten <...>

If you choose this article for a speech (it’s allowed), you must mention:

- forward economies have an enormous loss

- what sectors / segments of economy / market were destroyed or damaged by ecomonic crysis

- prospers for the future

Remember: your speech should be brief, about 2-3 minutes long!

Recommended websites:

www.economist.com

http://www.ft.com (2 articles per week without registration)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Vocabulary

economy - экономика

economics - "экономикс", экономика как наука

economise - экономить

frankly speaking - проще говоря

income - доход

net profit - чистый доход (доход за вычетом налоговых выплат)

revenue - прибыль

tax - налог

expand - расширять

shrink - сокращать, сужать

boost - ускорять

seek to - искать (способы)

evaluate (sn. measure) - измерять

consumption - потребление

household - домохозяйство

branch - отделение, филиал (=outlet)

GDP = gross domestic product - ВВП (валовый внутренний продукт, сумма всех товаров и услуг, произведенных за год резидентами (компании, домохозяйства и т.д.) на территории данного государства)

GNP = gross national product - ВНП (валовый национальный продукт, сумма всех товаров и услуг, произведенных за год всеми резидентами (компании, домохозяйства и т.д.) одного государства как внутри этого государства, так и за рубежом)

wholesale - оптовая торговля

emphasize - придавать особое значение

merge - объединяться, объединение

acquisition - поглощение

assembly – сборка

assembly line – сборочный конвейер

warehouse – склад

currency – валюта

driven - ориентированный

added value – добавленная стоимость

extraction – добывание, извлечение

(to) extract – добывать, извлекать

raw materials - сырье

(to) provide a service – обеспечивать сервис/услугу

needs - потребности

serve needs – обслуживать спрос

demand - спрос

satisfy the demand – удовлетворять спрос

finished goods/products – готовая продукция

end customer/user – конечный покупатель/пользователь

final consumer - конечный потребитель

dig – копать, рыть, извлекать из-под земли

maintenance – содержание и техническое обслуживание

distribution - дистрибуция

calculate prices – расчитывать цену

transportation – транспортировка

advanced (industrial) countries - индустриально развитые страны

post-industrial countries - постиндустриальные страны

developing countries - развивающиеся страны