- •Text 1. History of economic thought
- •1Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the box.
- •2 Now read the text again and decide whether these statements are true or false.
- •Exercises
- •1 Choose the correct answer a, b or c from the list below.
- •3. Discuss these questions with your partner.
- •Exercises
- •1.Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the box.
- •Exercises
- •1.Match the words and phrases with the definitions.
- •2.Now read the text again and answer these questions in your own words in the space provided below.
- •3.Now listen and tick which transactions in the list are mentioned.
- •Exercises
- •1. Choose the correct answer a, b or c from the list opposite.
- •2. Now read the text again and choose the sentence which best summarises each paragraph.
- •3.Discuss this question with your partner.
- •Exercices
- •1.Match the words and phrases with the definitions.
- •2. Now read the text again and decide whether these statements are true or false. If the statement is false, correct it.
- •3.Discuss this question with your partner.
- •4. Try to complete this paragraph about autarchies by using words from the box.
- •Exercises
- •1.Match the words with the definitions.
- •2.Now read the text again and match each paragraph with the correct heading.
- •Exercises
- •Match the words and phrases with the definitions.
- •3. Discuss these questions with your partner.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answer the questions.
- •2. Choose the necessary word and put in the sentence.
- •Exercises
- •1.Choose the correct answer a, b or c from the list opposite.
- •2. Now complete each sentence with words. Then listen and check your answers.
- •4. Discuss the following with your partner.
- •Exercises
- •1.Now read the text again and answer these questions in your own words in the space provided below.
- •2 Choose the correct answer.
- •In the real economy:
- •Exercises
- •I. Match the words with the definitions.
- •II.Now read the text again and complete the sentences below in your own words in the space provided.
- •III. Discuss these questions with your partner.
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises
- •1.Choose the necessary word and put it in the sentence.
- •Answer the questions.
- •Make transformations according to the model.
- •Exercises
- •Answer the questions.
- •2. Choose the necessary word and put it in the sentence.
- •Exercises
- •1. Change the sentences according to the model.
- •Make up the conditional sentences.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •Exercises
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises
- •Exercises
- •1.Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the box.
- •3 Now listen and complete the summary with words or numbers.
- •5. Give a two-minute talk on price. First make notes below on the following.
- •6. Imagine that you’ve got a good idea for an Internet commerce site (an Internet site which is also a business).Tell your friend what your idea is.
- •Dialogue
- •Change the sentences according to the model.
- •2. Change the sentences according to the model.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Make sentences interrogative and negative.
- •5. Choose the necessary modal verb and put it in the sentence.
- •1. Complete each sentence with a word.
- •Exercises
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises
- •Change the sentences according to the model.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •Exercises
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises
- •I. Transform the sentences according to the model.
- •III. Answer the questions.
- •I. Answer the questions.
- •II. Select the necessary word in the sentence.
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises.
- •Exercises
- •I. Answer the questions.
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises
- •III. Answer the questions.
- •Exercises
- •1. Answers the questions.
- •2. Choose the necessary word and put.
- •3. Put the verbs in brackets into the proper present tense
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises
- •Transform the sentences according to the model.
- •Exercises
- •Exercises
- •II. Read the text again and choose the best answer or answers for each question.
- •Informal letter
- •Iy Work in groups of three or four. Imagine you and your friends are running the country.Things are not going well! Here are some of your problems.
- •Dialogue
- •Exercises
- •Give affirmative and negative answers to the questions.
Exercises
1. Use the structure of (he model 10 respond the following sentences.
Model: Is it basically a Japanese corporation? (Yes) It’s basically a Japanese corporation, isn’t it? Is the overseas branch open? (No) The overseas branch isn’t open, is it?
1. Are many businessmen piling up capital surpluses? (Yes)
2. Is the subject clear? (No)
3. Is the New York bank accepting Russian roubles? (No)
4. Is Britain one of the Common Market countries? (No)
5. Is the company starting a branch in China? (Yes)
6. Is internationalism a modern trend? (Yes)
Change the sentences according to the model.
Model: Why would you sell automobiles to a company in Japan? (Tell me, please)
Tell me, please, why you would sell automobiles to a company in Japan.
1. How does this bank deal with different currencies? (Explain)
2. Where will you deliver the computer? (Let me know)
3. When did they order the merchandise? (I don’t know)
4. How did they sell the draft at discount? (It’s hard to say)
5. How did they get the extension of credit? (Explain)
3. Answer the questions.
1. Do you have plans for international cooperation for your business?
2. What obstacles are there on the way of development of international cooperation in this country?
3. What branches of business will develop fast in the sphere of international cooperation?
4. Do you think that internationalism will help to solve many social problems?
5. What place do you think this country will take in international economy?
Unit 7
Text. TYPES OF PROPRIETORSHIP
A business may be privately owned in three different forms. These forms are the sole proprietorship, the partnership and the corporation. The sole proprietorship is the most common i n many western countries. For example, more than 80 per cent of all businesses in the United States are sole proprietorships.
But it is evident that sole proprietorships do not do the greatest volume of business. They account for only 16 percent of all business receipts, for example, in America. What kind of business is likely to be a sole proprietorship? First of all, service
industries such as laundromats, beauty shops, different repair shops, restaurants.
Exercises
1. Answer the questions.
1. What are three different ways that a business can be privately owned?
2. What forms do most European countries have?
3. What forms do the businesses in the USSR have?
4. Name some businesses that are likely to be sole proprietorships. Why do you think so?
5. Name some businesses that are not likely to be sole proprietorship? Why do you think so?
II. Choose the necessary word and put ii in the sentence.
1. Small … are very often service industries.
2. The …industries don't produce material goods.
3. More than 80 per cent of all business ….are not from sole proprietorships.
4. Less than 20 per cent of European business are partnerships or…
5. Sole proprietorships…only a small part of all business receipts.
6. Is this bank owned publicly or…
7. There are three...of business ownership.
A. receipts
B business
C service
D privately
E account
F corporation
G forms