- •Contents
- •Загальні відомості
- •Texts and spoken activity
- •1. My Family My Family Tradition
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Is it important to have a friendly and united family? Explain your answer. What role does a friendly and united family play in your life?
- •2. Apartment Description
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Imagine that you are a realtor. Make up a dialogue with a customer and try to convince him/her to buy a little flat not far from the city centre.
- •3. My Working Day Small Business Efficiency: Improve Office Efficiency
- •Vocabulary practice
- •7 Tips To Enjoy Your Day Off`
- •Vocabulary practice
- •13 Ways to spend a day off without leaving the house
- •Vocabulary practice
- •5. A Holiday Hosting a Holiday Party?
- •Is it the Season for Giving?
- •It is Better to Give – Real Gifts
- •Vocabulary practice
- •6. My University East Ukraine Volodymyr Dahl National University
- •Vocabulary practice
- •7. Going Abroad Getting Through Customs
- •Vocabulary practice
- •8. Ukraine – Our Motherland
- •Vocabulary practice
- •9. At the hotel Choosing a Hotel
- •Vocabulary practice
- •10. A Business Appointment Top 7 Ways To Recover When You Miss a Business Appointment
- •Vocabulary practice
- •11. A Business Talk Business Appointment Success or Failure
- •Vocabulary practice
- •12. The Economy of Ukraine
- •Vocabulary practice
- •13. Travelling by Railway Rail Travel in the usa
- •Vocabulary practice
- •14. At the Booking-office Online Air Ticket Booking
- •Vocabulary practice
- •15. Cities and Towns of Ukraine
- •Vocabulary practice
- •16. Discussing a Contract
- •10 Things you need to know before entering into a contract
- •1. Know the Other Party
- •Vocabulary practice
- •17. Outstanding People of Ukraine
- •Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky
- •Vocabulary practice
- •25. At the Restaurant Restaurant and Dinner Party Manners and Etiquette
- •In a restaurant:
- •Vocabulary practice
- •How To Successfully Taste Wine
- •Vocabulary practice
- •Grammar exercises
- •3) Put in was or were into the gaps.
- •4) Put in was or were into the gaps.
- •6) Choose the correct present tense form of the verb to have for each sentence:
- •7) Choose the verb to be or to have for each sentence:
- •2) Write the correct possessive pronoun for each sentence:
- •3) Fill in each blank with the correct reflexive pronoun:
- •3) Choose the correct response:
- •1) Fill There is or There are in the gaps below.
- •2) Add there is or there are to the following sentences.
- •3) Fill in all the gaps
- •1) Fill in the blanks with much/many or a few/a little.
- •2) Decide whether you have to use little or few.
- •3) Underline the correct word from each sentence :
- •1) Define the right variant.
- •2) Choose the right modal verb.
- •3) Insert the appropriate modal verb.
- •4) Rewrite these sentences using must or can't
- •1) Rewrite each of the following sentences, omitting the underlined preposition which precedes the indirect object, and making the necessary changes in word order. For example:
- •2) Rewrite each of the following sentences, inserting the preposition to before the indirect object, and making the necessary changes in word order. For example:
- •3) Use the words in brackets to fill the gaps.
- •1) Choose the correct verb for each sentence and put it into the simple past:
- •2) Put the verbs into the Past Simple tense.
- •3) Put the verbs into the Past Simple tense.
- •1) Insert some or any.
- •2) Insert some or any.
- •3) Insert some or any.
- •1) Put in the verbs in brackets as Present Participle into the gaps.
- •2) Choose which verb tense (present/past simple or continuous) fits better.
- •3) Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •4) Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •1) Fill in each blank space with the correct past participle for each verb.
- •2) Choose which verb tense (simple past or present perfect) fits better.
- •3) Choose the right answer
- •1) Make each of the following sentences grammatically negative.
- •2) Put the verb in brackets into Future (will or going to).
- •1) Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses, then click the "Check" button to check your answers.
- •2) Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps in the correct tense Past Perfect or Simple Past.
- •3) Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps in the correct tense.
- •1) Choose the right answer.
- •2) Use the correct form of the verb in brackets.
- •3) Put the verb in brackets into the right tense. In some cases alternatives are possible.
- •1) Build sentences from the given words bellow.
- •2) Put the verb in brackets into the correct form in the gap after the verb. Where no verb is given, put one of the following linking words into the gaps.
- •The Unlucky Burglar
- •3) Put the verb in brackets in an appropriate form of the future in the past.
- •1) Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words.
- •2) These are typical questions that a mum gets asked every day. Peter is asking his mum loads of questions. Please read the explanation to "Reported Speech" beforehand if you aren't too sure.
- •3) Complete the sentences in the Reported Speech. Pay attention to the change of Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns and Verbs.
- •1) Fill in the spaces with the right modal verbs.
- •2) Use one of the modal verbs in brackets to fill each gap.
- •3) Complete the sentences using the words listed in the box below. Some gaps may have more than one correct answer.
- •2) Fill in the words in brackets as adjective or adverb like in the example.
- •3) Choose the right variant.
- •1) Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Form a Conditional sentence – type I. Only use the will-future in the main clauses.
- •2) Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps. Form a Conditional sentence – type I. Only use the will-future in the main clauses. Mind the negations in the sentences.
- •3) Fill in all the gaps.
- •1) Translate into Russian using the Complex Object.
- •2) Translate into English using the Complex Object.
- •Texts for additional reading
- •1. My family values
- •2. Efficiency Around the Office
- •3. How to Organize a Holiday Office Party: Holiday Party Planning Tips
- •4. Essential Business Trip Planning
- •5. Planning a Successful Business Lunch
- •6. Ten Economic Freedoms of Ukraine
- •Investment Freedom – 30.0
- •7. Five common ticketing errors – and how to avoid them
- •8. Outstanding People of Ukraine
- •9. The Art of Choosing a Good Restaurant
- •U sed literature
- •R ecommended resources
Vocabulary practice
Exercise 1. Fill in the correct word from the list below:
a) external, b) razor, c) bedroom, d) appliances, e) lounge, f) tile,
g) contemporary, h) reinforced, i) fully equipped, j) decorative
1. the departure……….
2. ……….debt of the state
6. Dutch……….
7. ……….security
3. ……….film about the First
World War;
4. double……….
8. a disposable……….
9. domestic electric……….
10. ………. kitchen
5. ………. cornice
Exercise 2. Read the text once again and underline the words which are (connected with) related to the topic “Apartment description”. Then make up your own sentences using these words and words from the word list.
LANGUGE DEVELOPMENT
Exercise 3. Look at the words given below and try to explain them.
What type of dwelling would you like to live in? Why? Where can we find them?
Skyscraper, cottage, mansion, hut, block of flats.
SPEAKING
Exercise 4.
Where can we find such type of the apartment description? Give reasons to your answer.
Imagine that you are a realtor. Make up a dialogue with a customer and try to convince him/her to buy a little flat not far from the city centre.
Describe your ideal house.
3. My Working Day Small Business Efficiency: Improve Office Efficiency
I just recently spent a 3-day training weekend with a company that is growing like crazy. They are experiencing two problems that are somewhat related. We looked at the organizational chart problems they're having. Now we're looking at another one of the challenges they are experiencing: the inefficiency of resources. These problems are similar in some respects: they come from growth as a result of putting out fires rather than through slow and steady linear scaling. They result from patching a hole and then patching the patch when a new hole
springs.
Why was this office so inefficient? After all, it's a high-tech company that specializes in helping other people develop their businesses efficiently! The reason is that when they were a two person office, the two people did the work, all of the work. When they very quickly became a 20 person office with another 45 people being outsourced to, they were still doing many things in a way that a 2 person office would do them, only ten times as much. When it was just two people, it was efficient. Doing the same actions on a ten-fold scale is inefficient.
Instead, they should have changed roles after they had become a 5 or 6 person office and rather than having 2 people do everything, those 5 or 6 people (and later the 20 people) should have completely changed their job descriptions to be much more task specific. That way, in the "new order" five people would do five separate and specialized tasks that, when they were a two person office, both people would do by simply communicating across the table.
Fortunately, the weekend training session was more than just a training session for them, it was an opportunity to talk out some of these problems and solidify solutions that would get them to the next level of business.
If you're experiencing the same problems right now, you might be interested in knowing what they did: They listed the tasks that each person did and then grouped them together and assigned one or two people to do each task. Now, instead of having one person do ten tasks throughout the day, they can have that one person do one or two related tasks throughout the day. It's much more efficient.
If you're not experiencing these problems but hope to enjoy growth in your business soon, you should think about ways to scale up your business while maintaining efficiency. When business is going well, be sure to think optimistically 6 months into the future and try to figure out how things would be different if you were to suddenly find that there were 10 times the number of people in your office than there were months earlier. Think now about the tasks that everyone does and divide those tasks into related groups so that, should business boom, you'll be ready to reassign as necessary.
Extreme growth is enviable but not when it makes doing business more difficult. You can manage rapid growth (and look forward to it) by planning ahead.
Source:http://www.morebusiness.com/running_your_business/management/improve–efficiency.brc
Word List:
Efficiency – [ɪ'fɪʃ(ə)n(t)sɪ], [ə-] – эффективность, результативность, продуктивность, деловитость;
Inefficiency– [ɪnɪ'fɪʃ(ə)n(t)sɪ] – неспособность, неэффективность;
Challenge – ['ʧælɪnʤ] – вызов, сложная задача, проблема;
Chart – [ʧɑːt] – график, таблица, список;
Put out – фраз. гл. тушить, гасить;
Steady – ['stedɪ] – равномерный, постоянный;
Linear – ['lɪnɪə] – линейный; ступенчатый (о методах обучения);
Patch – [pæʧ] – заплата, лоскут; patching – наложение заплаты, склеивание;
Outsourcing – ['autsɔːsɪŋ] – аутсорсинг (передача стороннему подрядчику некоторых бизнес-функций или частей бизнес-процесса предприятия c целью повысить производительность труда и снизить себестоимость продукции преимущественно за счёт более дешёвой рабочей силы у подрядчика);
Tenfold – ['tenfəuld] – в десятикратном размере;
Solidify – [sə'lɪdɪfaɪ] – делать твёрдым, затвердевать, застывать;
Maintain – [meɪn'teɪn] – поддерживать, сохранять, удерживать;
Figure out – фраз. гл., разг. вычислять, понимать, постигать;
Boom – [bu:m] – бум, подъем, business boom – подъём деловой активности;
Reassign – [ri:ə'saɪn] – назначать на другую должность, перераспределять;
Enviable – ['envɪəbl] – завидный;
Rapid – ['ræpɪd] – быстрый, скорый, стремительный;
Look forward to – ['fɔːwəd] – фраз. гл. ожидать с нетерпением, предвкушать (что-л.);
Ahead – [ə'hed] – будущий, вперёд;