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10.3 Answer the questions to the text:

  1. What two types of investors are there?

  2. What do institutional investors buy securities with?

  3. What are the major institutional investors?

  4. What do insurance companies use their investments for?

  5. What is the usual size of personal investors’ portfolios?

  6. What do personal investors use their funds for?

  7. What are the major objectives of persona investors?

  8. What is speculation?

  9. What is “penny stock”?

  10. Where does “penny stock” usually come from?

  11. Why is the blue chip stock so attractive to many people?

  12. Why is the payoff for blue chip stocks rather low?

  13. What is a stock’s yield?

  14. What businesses provide the highest regular yields?

  15. Why is preferred stock safer than common stock?

  16. What is the safest type of security?

10.4 Find the English equivalents to the following phrases in the text:

инвестиционная организация; страховая компания; пенсионный фонд; генерировать прибыль; страховая выплата; крупная покупка; пенсионный доход; источник денежных средств; экстренный случай; цели инвесторов; идти на риск; спекулятивные акции; первоначальные инвестиции; акции коммунальных служб; акции высокотехнологичных компаний; государственные облигации.

10.5 Make up ten English sentences using words from the active vocabulary of the lesson

10.6 Are these statements true, false, or not mentioned in the text?

  1. There are only individual investors.

  2. Investors take risk to receive large revenues.

  3. Last year the dividend for penny stock was rather high.

  4. Individual investors prefer to invest in production buying stock of plants and factories.

  5. Individual investors trade securities for others.

  6. Penny stock is typically issued by new ventures.

10.7 Give the list of securities in order of decreasing safety

  1. High tech stock, common stock, preferred stock, government stock.

  2. Preferred stock, government stock, common stock, high tech stock.

  3. Government stock, preferred stock, common stock, high tech stock.

  4. High tech stock, common stock, preferred stock, government stock.

10.8 Choose one phrase that expresses the main idea of the text

  1. Investors’ obligations.

  2. Advantages and disadvantages of investing in securities.

  3. Types of investors.

  4. Types of investors and their activities.

10.9 Substitution Drill

Statement: Most investors, especially institutional investors, prefer being certain that their investment will make money or not lose money.

Example: companies

Most companies, especially institutional investors, prefer being certain that their investment will make money or not lose money.

1.the majority of

4. waste

7. profit

10. deposit

2.particularly

5. depositors

8. individual

11. would

3. want

6. to be

9. bring