- •V (verb) – глагол phr (phrase) – фраза
- •I. Text the nature of business
- •Input → transformation → output
- •I. Business n – uncountable
- •II. Business (businesses) n – countable
- •III. Business n – singular
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Comprehension exercises
- •III. Vocabulary practice exercises
- •IV. Brush up your grammar
- •All Tenses Compared Все времена в сравнении
- •V. Speech practice exercises
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Text the economic foundations of business
- •Image of a global village.”
- •Economic Systems
- •Economic Forces Affecting Business
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Comprehension exersices
- •3. Check your progress:
- •III. Vocabulary practice exercises
- •IV. Brush up your grammar
- •Passive Voice Страдательный залог
- •V. Speech practice exercises
- •The Pope and the Price of Fish
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Text economic entity assumption
- •Sole Proprietorships
- •Partnerships
- •Corporations
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Comprehension exercises
- •3. Review Questions
- •III. Vocabulary practice exercises
- •5. Make and Do
- •IV. Brush up your grammar
- •The Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- •Contractions
- •V. Speech practice exercises
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Text accounting
- •А. The Nature of Accounting
- •В. Accounting and Bookkeeping
- •С. Accounting Professionals
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Comprehension exercises
- •2. Review questions
- •III. Vocabulary practice exercises
- •The Accounting Cycle
- •IV. Brush up your grammar
- •The Infinitive
- •Функции инфинитива
- •V. Speech practice exercises
- •I. Text financial statements
- •А. Balance Sheet
- •Vocabulary
- •В. Income Statement
- •Vocabulary
- •С. Statement of Cash Flows
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Comprehension exercises
- •III. Vocabulary practice exercises
- •IV. Brush up your grammar
- •The Modals and their Equivalents
- •V. Speech practice exercises
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I. Text managing financial resources
- •A. Financing the Enterprise
- •B. The Responsibilities of Financial Managers
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Comprehension exercises
- •3. Review Questions.
- •III. Vocabulary practice exercises
- •3. Borrowing and Lending
- •IV. Brush up your grammar
- •Conditional Sentences
- •V. Speech practice exercises
- •Characteristics and Functions of Money
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Vocabulary notes
- •I text banking institutions
- •Modern Banking Institutions
- •Commercial Banks
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Comprehension exercises
- •2. Review Questions
- •III. Vocabulary practice exercises
- •Banking in the Digital Age
- •IV. Brush up your grammar
- •The Sequence of Tenses Reported Speech
- •С правилом согласования времён direct speech reported speech
- •I / we à he (she) / they tomorrow à the next day
- •V. Speech practice exercises
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Библиографический список
- •Оглавление
- •6 80021, Г. Хабаровск, ул. Серышева, 47.
III. Vocabulary practice exercises
1. Choose the necessary word or word combination and put it in a sentence.
profit distribution channels business exchange tangible intangible factors of production service nonprofit organizations conversion process |
1. Combination of such activities as production, distribution, and sale of
goods and services for a profit is defined as ---------- .
2. Natural resources, human resources, capital, and entrepreneurs are four
--------- .
3. The sequence of events that convert resources into products is called
---------- .
4. Some businesses produce ---------- goods, such as automobiles, breakfast
cereals, and computer chips; others provide ---------- services such as
insurance, dental care, or dry cleaning.
5. ---------- are an organized network of firms that work together to get a
product from a producer to consumers.
6. A sale is the ---------- of a product for money.
7. A doctor performs a ---------- by taking care of people when they are sick.
8. A company’s profitability is its ability to create an economic surplus or ------.
9. ---------- do not have the fundamental purpose of earning profits, although
they may provide goods and services.
2. Classify the following items as either goods or services:
1. car 11. perfume
2. medical aid 12. marketing campaign
3. travel agency 13. office equipment installation
4. microwave oven 14. management planning
5. road repair 15. newspapers and magazines
6. computer 16. newspaper delivery
7. fax machine 17. weight monitor
8. financial consulting 18. Disneyland
9. CDs 19. land tax preparation
10. employment agency 20. conditioner
GOODS |
SERVICES |
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3. Match these parts of the business definition to the following real-life
situations.
Production of goods
Distribution of goods
Sale of goods
Sale of services
Examples:
Steel is converted into metal car parts production of goods
A car is moved from a factory to a car
dealership distribution of goods A salesman sells a computer. sale of goods
A programmer prepares a program for a computer sale of services
1. A truck carries a shipment of goods from
the factory in Seattle to the warehouse in
Portland. ________________________
2. A chemical plant turns raw materials
into fertilizer. ________________________
3. A salesman from Valentino Chocolates
convinces a customer to buy a box of
chocolates with a delicious taste. ________________________
4. Miners use special machines to dig out
the coal. ________________________
5. In many cases, coal must be shipped
long distances to reach the buyer. Most
coal shipments within a country are carried
by rail, barge, or truck. ________________________
6. A baby-sitter looks after your child
occasionally. ________________________
7. Rice is the basic food of many peoples
In Asia. Farmers grow rice in flooded fields
because rice needs a constant supply of
water. ________________________
8. Vladavia, Asiana, and other air carriers
regularly carry tourists from Eastern Russia
to Japan, Korea, and China. ________________________
9. Normally, products are shipped in large
containers and are packaged in their final
form only when they reach their destination. ________________________
10. Holdbrook House offers insurance and
banking in many different parts of the world. ________________________
11. Workers in Japan make these
comfortable Toyota cars. ________________________
12. A waitress takes your order for lunch. ________________________
4. Match the words on the left with their equivalents on the right.
1. production a) company
2. transformation b) economic surplus
3. to posses c) aim
4. capital d) manufacturing
5. entrepreneur e) a good or service
6. input f) to cooperate
7. output g) plant
8. firm h) to run a business
9. customer i) to operate
10. to work together j) businessman
11. to perform k) to own
12. physical l) money
13. product m) basic materials or skills
14. goal n) conversion
15. profit o) material
16. to operate a business p) finished product
17. factory q) consumer
18. to work r) to accomplish
5. Match the terms on the left with their definitions on the right:
company |
a businessperson, someone who starts and operates a business |
production |
moving things from the place of production to the marketplace |
entrepreneur |
degree of excellence or superiority of a firm’s goods and services |
profit |
physical in nature |
product |
a registered business |
distribution |
non-physical in nature |
sale |
ability to create an economic surplus or profit |
tangible |
trying to do better than another company |
intangible |
goods, services, and ideas that result from the conversion of inputs |
output |
producing goods and creating services |
profitability |
the money that remains after all expenses and taxes have been paid |
competition |
a good or a service with tangible and intangible characteristics used as a basis of commerce |
quality |
exchange of a product for money |