- •Unit 1 economics Text 1: Economics – what it is about?
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text 2: The meaning of scarcity
- •Vocabulary
- •10. Underline the words in the Possessive Case and
- •11. Translate into English and make short sentences with
- •12. Use the verbs in the Present Indefinite Tense and
- •17. Match the equivalents:
- •18. Translate into English and make short sentences using
- •19. Answer these questions:
- •Text 3: Choice and opportunity cost
- •Vocabulary
- •20. Underline the subjects with one line, the predicates with
- •21. Underline clauses and translate the sentences:
- •22. Translate into English
- •23. Answer these questions:
- •24. Read the following:
- •Going out
- •Unit 2 business activity Text 1: Types of business in the uk
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Sum up what the text says about:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Text 2: Incorporation
- •Vocabulary
- •Translate into English:
- •Choose the right form and translate into English:
- •Translate the following words and word combinations
- •Into Ukrainian:
- •Translate into English:
- •Give the Ukrainian equivalents:
- •Sum up what the text says about the incorporation procedure:
- •Translate the text of the Certificate of Incorporation into Ukrainian. Text 3: Forms of business in the usa
- •Vocabulary
- •15. Underline the predicates paying attention to the verbs
- •16. Sum up what the text says about:
- •17. Translate into English using the text:
- •18. Translated into Ukrainian:
- •20. Mark the terms associated with business in the States,
- •Unit 3 businessmen and business Text 1: Directors and managers
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Choose the right form and translate the sentences:
- •Translate into English:
- •Translate the following word combinations into Ukrainian:
- •Underline the modal verbs, read and translate the sentences into Ukrainian:
- •Find the answers to the following questions in the text:
- •Complete the sentences with the following words:
- •Sum up what the text says about:
- •Have a look at the chart showing some qualities making a good manager:
- •Text 2: Business correspondence
- •Vocabulary
- •9. Underline the Attributes and say how they are expressed
- •10. Answer the following questions:
- •Unit 4 resumes and interviews Text 1: Resume or curriculum vitae. Application form
- •Here is an example
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Underline the Modals, read and translate the sentences into Ukrainian:
- •Say what you know about Sussanna j. Patric, judging by her cv.
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Text 2: About interviews
- •Vocabulary
- •Use the Infinitives after the Modals properly (either with to or without it), read and translate the sentences:
- •Translate into English using Modals:
- •Underline the roots of the following words:
- •Form and translate the adverbs:
- •Write down what steps the company takes after it obtains the resumes. The following may be of help:
- •Write down the questions for the following answers:
- •Text 3: Making a selection
- •Vocabulary
- •17. Mark what parts of speech the words in italics are (n —
- •18. Make sentences as in the example:
- •It is quite normal for a candidate
- •20. Complete as in the text:
- •21. Sum up all the steps an applicant takes to get a job, covering:
- •Unit 5 money, money Text 1: Glimpses of history of money
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Insert the correct prepositions:
- •Make sentences from the following elements:
- •Find the answers in the text:
- •Complete the sentences with the following words:
- •Sum up what the text say about:
- •Text 2: Counterfeiting
- •Vocabulary
- •Translate the nouns and write the verbs from which they are formed:
- •Use the following words and translate the sentences:
- •Give the English equivalents:
- •Sum up what the text says about the security features of American banknotes.
- •Translate into English:
- •Unit 6 domestic production and prices Text 1: Gross domestic product
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Translate into English:
- •Say what parts of speech the following words are:
- •Insert the correct prepositions:
- •Write out the term from the text which means the following:
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Translate the terms into English:
- •Text 2: Inflation and prices
- •Vocabulary
- •Translate these word combinations and use them in sentences of your own:
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Underline the nouns used with articles in the following sentences and explain their usage:
- •Text 3: Inflation and deflation
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 7 factors of production Text 1: The factors of production
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Underline the attributive clauses, read and translate the sentences:
- •Translate the following:
- •Have a look at the scheme given in the text and answer these questions:
- •Text 2: Goods and capital
- •Vocabulary
- •Choose the correct form of the Verb and translate the sentences:
- •Translate these word combinations and use them in sentences of your own:
- •Complete the sentences using these words:
- •Make sentences using these word combinations:
- •Give definitions of the following:
- •Translate into English:
- •Text 3: Capital and investment
- •Vocabulary
- •Use the following in the sentences of your own:
- •Translate into English:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Write your definitions of these terms:
- •Text 4: The entrepreneur
- •Vocabulary
- •16. Use the verbs in the right form and translate the
- •17. Choose the right word, read and translate the sentences:
- •Unit 8 foreign trade Text 1: Basic terms in foreign trade
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Text 2: Foreign trade of the uk
- •Vocabulary
- •Underline the Present Participles, say what parts of sentences they are, read and translate the sentences:
- •Translate these word combinations and use them in sentences of your own:
- •Find the equivalents in the text:
- •Insert the correct prepositions:
- •What words in the text prove that:
- •Complete the sentences with the following words:
- •Write answers to the following questions:
- •Sum up what the text says about:
- •Text 3: The European Union
- •Vocabulary
- •Use the Verbs in correct forms and translate the sentences:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Translate these words and make sentences using them:
- •Write what you know about the following:
- •Text 4: The World Trade Organisation
- •Vocabulary
- •Write down the English equivalents:
- •Insert the correct prepositions and translate the following:
- •Use the Verbs in the correct forms and translate the sentences:
- •Underline the ing-forms and translate the following into Ukrainian:
- •Unit 9 computerization Text 1: Application of computers
- •Telltale computers
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Complete as in the text:
- •Translate into English:
- •Make your sentences using the following word combinations:
- •Sum up what the text said about the application of computers.
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Text 2: Computer makers
- •European Computer Makers Seek Support from Brussels
- •Vocabulary
- •Make sentences using the Modal Verbs in the right form and making necessary changes in object clauses if necessary:
- •Translate these word combinations and use them in sentences of your own:
- •Complete the sentences:
- •Agree of disagree:
- •Text 3: The Internet
- •Vocabulary
- •Open the brackets using the Verbs in the correct forms:
- •Complete the following sentences as in the text:
- •Write out the sentences about Internet services which seem most important to you.
- •Mark √ if you agree and give your reasons:
- •Unit 10 companies and accounting Text 1: The payroll of a company
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text 2: Taxes in the uk
- •Vocabulary
- •Write down answers to the following questions:
- •Text 3: Bookkeepers, accountants and controllers
- •Vocabulary
- •Underline the Modal Verbs and translate the sentences:
- •Group these nouns into the two columns:
- •Complete as in the text:
- •Write down the questions for the following answers:
- •Sum up what the text said about:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Unit 11 the business plan Text 1: The beginning of a business plan
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •1. Read and translate into Ukrainian:
- •2. Says how the following verbs are formed:
- •4. Underline the negative prefixes in the following words:
- •5. Match the antonyms, like this:
- •6. Translate into English:
- •. Say what sentence seems most important to you in
- •. Mark the true sentences (t) and false ones (f), according
- •9. Complete the sentences with the following words:
- •10. Complete as in the text:
- •Text 2: Competition and marketing
- •Vocabulary
- •11. Write down the Ukrainian equivalents:
- •12. Translate the following into English:
- •13. Complete and translate the sentences:
- •14. Make a plan of the Competition section.
- •15. Complete as in the text:
- •16. Find the answers in the text and write them down:
- •Text 3: Finance
- •Vocabulary
- •17. Write down the English equivalents:
- •18. Write down the Ukrainian equivalents:
- •19. Complete and translate the sentences:
- •21. Say what information is the most important in the
- •Unit 12 Markets and exchanges Text 1: Shares and stocks in the uk
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •1. Read and translate into Ukrainian:
- •2. Use the appropriate word (either like or as) and translate
- •3. Translate into English:
- •4. Match the Ukrainian and English equivalents:
- •5. Complete the sentences with the following words:
- •6. Write down answers to the following questions:
- •7. Sum up what the text said about:
- •8. Explain the difference between the terms stocks and shares. Text 2: Company finance
- •Vocabulary
- •9. Use Gerunds of the appropriate verbs and translate the
- •10. Translate into English:
- •11. Choose the right world and translate the sentences:
- •12. Underline the Clauses and translate the sentences:
- •Match the English and Ukrainian equivalents:
- •14. Complete the sentences with the following words and
- •15. Open the brackets by using the Verbs in the correct I
- •16. Write out from the text the sentences speaking about:
- •Text 3: Securities and stock exchanges
- •Vocabulary
- •18. Write down the Ukrainian equivalents:
- •19. Choose the right variant and translate the sentences:
- •20. Complete the sentences with the following words:
- •21. Write down the questions for the following answers:
- •22. Insert the correct prepositions and make short sentences
- •23. Translate into English:
- •24. Find the answers in the text:
- •Unit 13
- •Insurance Text 1: Insurance and risks
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •1. Translate into Ukrainian:
- •2. Translate into English:
- •3. Match the English and Ukrainian equivalents:
- •Text 2:Life and industrial assurance
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 3: Insurance services of banks
- •What services are available?
- •Vocabulary
- •14. Write down the Ukrainian equivalents:
- •15. Write short sentences using the following words:
- •16. Form as many words as possible from the following:
- •17. Translate these word combinations into English and use
- •19. Say which service looks most attractive to you. Why so?
- •Unit 14
- •Business finance and marketing
- •Text 1: Sources of finance
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •1. Translate into Ukranian:
- •2. Translate into English:
- •3. Complete the sentences as in the text and translate them:
- •Text 2: Financial institutions
- •Insurance companies
- •Investment trusts
- •Vocabulary
- •9. Translate into English:
- •10. Underline the conjunction which and translate the
- •11. Translate these words and word combinations into
- •12. Write down the comparative degrees of the following
- •13. Complete and translate the sentences into Ukrainian:
- •14. Write down the corresponding English terms:
- •15. Write down the functions of each type of the following:
- •16. Have a look at the chart and answer the questions that
- •Text 3: The role of the government
- •Vocabulary
- •Text 4: Marketing
- •Vocabulary
- •21. Write down nouns from the following verbs, paying
- •Unit 15 Economic and ecological problems Text 1: Developed and developing countries
- •Developing countries
- •Developed countries
- •Vocabulary
- •Exercise
- •Text 2: Major economic problems
- •Vocabulary
- •11. Translate into English:
- •12. Read and translate paying attention to the word-
- •13. Match the words which are close in their meaning:
- •15. Write down the questions for the following answers:
- •16. Underline one sentence which seems most important to
- •17. Complete and read these short dialogues:
- •Text 3: Ecological problems
- •Vocabulary
- •18. Form adjectives from the following nouns:
- •19. Write down the verbs from which the following nouns
- •20. Read and translate the following word combinations
- •Into Ukrainian:
- •22. Underline the Adjectives in the comparative degrees
- •23. Complete the following sentences using the text
- •25. Write down what ecological problems the two types of
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Англійська мова
Основи економіки та бізнесу
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Черкаси – 2008
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Укладач: Мустафа О.О.
Англійська мова. Основи економіки та бізнесу.
Тексти для читання.
Черкаси, 2008. с.
Рецензент: Д.М. Колесник, кандидат філологічних наук,
доцент
(Черкаський державний технологічний
університет)
Методичні рекомендації знайомлять з різними економічними питаннями, термінами економіки та бізнесу.
Навчальне видання передбачає формування вмінь та навичок читання, перекладу і спілкування англійською мовою.
Методичні рекомендації можуть бути використані при викладенні англійської мови з економічних спеціальностей для кращого засвоєння граматичного матеріалу та лексики.
Навчальне видання призначене для студентів вищих навчальних закладів І-ІІ рівнів акредитації.
Затверджено на засіданні циклової
комісії іноземних мов
Протокол № 6
від 29 січня 2008 року © О.О. Мустафа, 2008
Зміст
Вступ 4
Unit 1. Economics 5
Unit 2. Business activity 18
Unit 3. Businessmen and business 30
Unit 4. Resumes and interviews 41
Unit 5. Money, money 54
Unit 6. Domestic production and prices 61
Unit 7. Factors of production 71
Unit 8. Foreign trade 83
Unit 9. Computerization 98
Unit 10. Companies and accounting 110
Unit 11. The business plan 122
Unit 12. Markets and exchanges 133
Unit 13. Insurance 145
Unit 14. Business financial and marketing 154
Unit 15. Economic and ecological problems 170
Рекомендована література 183
ВСТУП
Це навчальне видання призначене для студентів вищих навчальних закладів І-ІІ рівнів акредитації, які вивчають економіку, фінанси, а також тих, хто намагається розширити свої знання англійської мови в економічній тематиці.
Мета методичних рекомендацій – допомогти студентам засвоїти англійську економічну лексику, розширити словниковий запас, читати, розуміти та перекладати економічні тексти англійською мовою, вести ділову бесіду, телефонні розмови ділову кореспонденцію англійською мовою.
Це навчальне видання знайомить з різними економічними питаннями, основними поняттями та термінами економіки та бізнесу.
Навчальне видання включає 15 розділів та охоплює такі теми, як: економіка та економічні ресурси, ділова активність, типи компаній, гроші, податки, інфляція, банки, біржі, страхування, ділова кореспонденція, Європейський Союз, Світова торгова організація і таке інше. Кожен розділ складається з невеликих за об’ємом оригінальних, злегка адаптованих текстів, словникових пояснень, граматичних, лексичних та мовленнєвих вправ. Тексти складені на базі автентичних підручників, газетних та журнальних статей, реального ділового листування, переговорів та документації. Завдання та вправи дозволяють розвивати вміння та навички читання, перекладу, розмовної мови, розширяти словниковий запас, розвивати творчій підхід до вивчення англійської мови.
Unit 1 economics Text 1: Economics – what it is about?
Many of the words used by economists are very familiar to us. We know that economists talk and write about such topics as money, prices, wages, employment, taxes, exports and imports, earning, and spending. Every day some economic problem or other is mentioned in the newspapers, on the radio and on the television. Economics is a science and part of our everyday lives, for:
we live in an economic system
every day we take part in economic activities, and
we are familiar with the words used by economists.
Economics is about economising, that is, 'making the most of what we have'. For the individual, this means using one's abilities and spending one's income in the way that gives the most satisfaction or benefit.
For the community as a whole, it means using the people's skills and energies, the land, the buildings, the machinery and the other economic resources so as to obtain the highest possible standards of living.
Vocabulary
economics економіка
familiar близький, добре
знайомий
to be familiar with знати що-небудь, бути
обізнаним в чомусь
wages зарплата (робочих)
salary зарплата (службовців)
tax податок
to earn заробляти
that is тобто
to make the most of використовувати
найкращим чином
to mean (meant, meant) означати
ability здатність
income дохід
to satisfy задовольняти
satisfaction задоволення
benefit вигода, користь,
перевага, прибуток
community громада, община, група
людей, об’єднаних
якимось ознаками
as a whole в цілому
skill уміння, майстерність
to obtain одержувати, діставати
standard of living життєвий рівень
= living standard
Exercises
Make up sentences negative:
I remember these rules.
He knows these words.
She often reads books on economics.
He often writes about such topics as goods and taxes.
They sometimes read The Economist, an English journal.
This company specialises in exports and imports.
We often speak about money, prices and inflation.
Read and answer these questions:
Does your friend often speak about earning and spending money?
Do many people speak about these things?
What topics do you usually discuss with your friends?
When did you last see your best friend?
When will you see him again?
Translate into English:
Ми не будемо обговорювати цю тему на наступному занятті.
Він знає багато про ці проблеми української економіки.
Вона часто брала участь в дискусіях?
Ви будете обговорювати питання про різні економічні системи?
Сьогодні основна тема нашої лекції „Безробіття”.
Я не часто зустрічала цій термін в газетах та журналах.
Answer these questions:
Are you a student?
Is your friend a student?
How old is your friend?
What is his/her name?
Where is he/she now?
Were you a student last year?
Was your friend a student last year?
Will you be an economist?
What will your friend be?
Where will you be tomorrow?
Translate into English:
Економіка – це наука та навчальна дисципліна.
Це відомий український економіст.
Вони були знайомі з роботами Кейнса та Фрідмена.
Вони були його учнями?
Наскільки я знаю, вони не були його учнями.
Я не знала відповідь на це питання.
Use these verbs in the Present Indefinite Tense and translate the sentences:
These topics (to be) familiar to us.
Economists (to write) about various important topics.
They often (to discuss) these topics.
One of my friends (to be) an economist.
He (to like) talking about the Ukrainian economy and economics in general.
But when we (to meet) we (to speak) about different matters.
Translate into English using the text:
Щоденно ті або інші економічні проблеми згадуються та обговорюються в газетах, радіо- та телепередачах.
Всі ці бізнесмени активно беруть участь в економічній діяльності.
Економіка говоре про визначну систему економії.
Це означає використання здібностей та можливостей.
Це все необхідно для забезпечення високого життєвого рівня.
Answer these questions:
Are you familiar with many terms used by economists?
What are these terms?
Did you know that economics is a science?
Do you know the difference between economics and economy?
Was it difficult for you to translate the text?
What sentences were most difficult to translate?
Translate into English and make sentences with these word combinations:
- економічна система - життєвий рівень
- економічні терміни - гроші
- економічні ресурси - податки
- економічна наука - зарплата
- економічна діяльність - земля
- дохід - будівлі
- користь - обладнання