Іі семестр модуль 1 тема № 5

5.1. Лексичний блок. Економічні системи.

1. What are the three basic economic questions that every society must answer?

2. What makes each society look for the answers to the basic economic questions?

3. What does the What question refer to?

4. What are the ways of providing answer to the How question?

5. What does the Who question mean?

6. What is an economic system?

7. What categories do economic systems fall into?

8. What is a traditional economy?

9. How are the answers to What, How and Who questions decided in a society with a traditional economy?

10. What is a command economy?

11. Who makes decisions on the fundamental economic questions in a society with a command economy?

12. Who owns the major means of production in a command economy?

13. What is a market economy? How is sometimes a market economy called?

14. What is a free enterprise system?

15. What is a free enterprise system based on?

16. Who owns the means of production in a society with a market economy?

17. How are the basic questions decided in a market economy?

18. What is private property?

19. What is the profit motive?

20. What is a mixed economy?

21. Why are there neither pure market economies nor pure command economies?

22. Why are economic systems of most democratic countries called mixed economies?

5.2. Граматичний блок. Утворення та вживання теперішнього перфектного та перфектно-тривалого часів, їх порівняльне вживання. Неозначені займенники one, all, both, either, neither, every, each.

Тема №6

6.1. Лексичний блок. Проблеми та задачі мікро- та макроекономіки.

1. What is economics?

2. Why is economics considered a social science?

3. What is microeconomics?

4. What does microeconomics focus on?

5. Why does microeconomics trace cause-and-effect relationships?

6. What economic issues does microeconomics do with?

7. What is macroeconomics?

8. What economic issues does microeconomics look at?

9. Why does macroeconomics look into the total effect of individual choices?

10. What are two worlds that economists deal with?

11. What is an economic model?

12. What do economists use to explain or describe the “world that is”?

13. Why do economists make the positive-normative distinction?

14. What is the difference between positive economic statement and normative one?

15. What is positive economics concerned with?

16. What does normative economics deal with?

6.2. Граматичний блок. Утворення та вживання минулогоперфектного та перфектно-тривалого часів, їх порівняльне вживання. Означальні займенники: all, both, either, neither. Прийменники.

Модуль 2 тема №7

7.1. Лексичний блок. Економіка США.

What type of economy does the USA have?

2. What role does the government play in the US economy? What does it provide?

3. What role does international trade play in the US economy?

4. Why is the USA considered the largest trading nation in the world?

5. What sectors can the US economy be divided into?

6. What do the US economy sectors deal with?

7. What is the key component of the US economy?

8. What are the leading categories of the US manufactured goods?

9. What place does the USA occupy in the world in the production of electronic components?

10. What main sources of energy are used in the US economy?

11. What is the largest sector of the US economy in terms of output and employment?

12. Why are transportation-related businesses considered to be an important part of the service industry?

13. What are the major mineral resources of the USA?

14. What industries are developed on the basis of steel industry?

15. What can you say about the country’s petroleum production?

16. What can you say about the US agriculture?

17. What makes the USA the world’s richest agricultural nation?

18. Why is the USA self-sufficient in agricultural products?

19. What are the most wide-spread branches of animal husbandry?

20. Why is farming a big business in the USA?

7.2. Граматичний блок. Утворення майбутніх часів. Засоби вираження майбутньої дії.