IX. Обсудите с однокурсниками следующие вопросы и выскажите свою точку зрения по ним:

1. Which definition of economics do you think the best? Why?

2. What are the peculiarities of a mixed type of economy?

3. What are the main objectives of economic policy?

X. Прочитайте шутку и перескажите ее по-английски от третьего лица.

A walking economy

This guy is walking with his friend, who happens to be a psychologist. He says to this friend, "I'm a walking economy." The friend asks, "How so?" "My hair line is in recession, my stomach is a victim of inflation, and both of these together are putting me into a deep depression!"

Unit 2. Business Basics

Обсудите следующие вопросы:

1. What do you think of the term business?

2. What is the main objective of business activity?

3. Write down as many words as you can about business activity.

I. Переведите следующие словосочетания с предлогом of:

Models: the ideas of our age – идеи нашего века; half of the cake – половина торта; a dress of silk – платье из шелка; a bottle of milk – бутылка молока.

The concepts and activities of business, forms of business, the creation of services, the changing of materials into products, the securing of capital, the sale of goods, the simplest way of starting a business, the debts of the partnership, taking care of the people, the wave of privatization car parts of metal

VOCABULARY

Переведите термины, которые вы встретите в текстах данного урока, с помощью экономического словаря.

1. profit 2. subsidiary 3. production 4. partnership 5. distribution

6. landing money 7. merchandising 8. private limited company 9.public limited company 10. stocks and bonds

11. insurance polices 12. securing of capital 13. entrepreneurship 14. headquarters 15. sole proprietor

II.Исключите слово, не соотносящееся по своему значению с остальными словами в каждой группе по горизонтали:

1. firm 2. salary 3. finance 4. ship 5. plant company manager product assemble facility society engineer planning customer patent subsidiary employee marketing purchase factory

III. Установите соответствие между данными в задании I группами слов и определениями, приведенными ниже:

a) manufacturing sites____

b) stages in the manufacturing process____

c) people who work in a company ____

d) types of business organisation ____

e) different departments in a company ____

IV. Установите соответствия между словами, исключенными в задании 3 и определениями, приведенными ниже:

1. ____ payment for work, usually monthly

2. ____ an item that has been made

3. ____ an organisation or club with members who share similar interests

4. ____ a document that gives the right to make or sell a new product

5. ____ a person who buys goods or services