- •Unit 6. Finance for strategy
- •1. Read the text and match the topic sentences a-h to the gaps 1-7.
- •Financial Management functions
- •3. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •4. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •5. Work either individually or in pairs / groups. Answer the following questions. Prepare a report, if necessary.
- •Text 2 Banking On Blue Chip Stocks
- •1. Scan the text and match the subheadings to the parts I-V.
- •2. Read the text and say whether the statements are true or false.
- •3. Summarize the content of the text.
- •5. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •6. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •7. Work either individually or in pairs / groups. Answer the following questions. Prepare a report, if necessary.
- •Five Steps of a Bubble
- •1. Skim the text and match the pictures a-g to the paragraphs 1-7.
- •§ 3. 1. Displacement
- •§ 4. 2. Boom
- •§ 5. 3. Euphoria
- •§ 6. 4. Profit Taking
- •§ 7. 5. Panic
- •2. Read the text and answer the questions.
- •3. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations marked violet in the text with their definitions given in the table below.
- •4. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •5. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •6. Watch the film “Margin Call” (2011) and describe the situation of the 2008 crisis.
- •7. Work either individually or in pairs / groups. Answer the following questions. Prepare a report, if necessary.
- •1. Scan the text and
- •Five Lessons from the World's Biggest Bankruptcies
- •3. Give the summary of the five lessons from the World's Biggest Bankruptcies.
- •Vocabulary. Part I
- •Vocabulary. Part II
- •5. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •Vocabulary. Part I
- •Vocabulary. Part II
- •6. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •7. Read the recommended articles in the text and prepare reports on the topics.
- •8. Watch the film “Wall Street II. Money Never Sleeps” (2010) and find illustrations of the processes described in the text.
- •9. Discussion. Lessons to be learnt from the article and the films. Final discussion
- •Unit 6 wordlist
- •Unit 7 Budgets, Decisions and Risks
- •1. Make an outline of the text Managerial Accounting
- •2. Write a word from the box in the correct form in each gap.
- •Money management - an introduction
- •3. Circle the correct word or phrase.
- •4. Develop the topic suggested
- •1 . Highlight the topic sentences and justify your choice Trading on Teamwork
- •Curriculum vitae
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the right prepositions Dealing with debt
- •3. Each of the words or phrases in bold is incorrect. Rewrite them correctly.
- •4. What aspects in the company management should be taken into consideration to make the right investment decision ?
- •1.What is the main idea of the text ? Financial crisis could turn the tide against unrestricted capital flows
- •2. Fill in the right word from the text
- •3. Answer the questions
- •4. Develop the topic: what do the market crises depend on?
- •1. Think of some other title for the text Downturn, start up
- •2. Choose the right word combination (scarce,collateral,teeth, spur,commissioned)
- •3. Qualify the statements, whether they are true or false
- •Unit 8 and 9 People as a Resource / Developing People
- •1. What do you think is similar in the job of a mentor and a coacher? What could be the main difference between them?
- •2. Read the text below to check if your ideas were right. Name the most striking difference between mentoring and coaching. Mentoring versus coaching
- •3. Scan through the text once again and put m next to the phrases which characterize mentoring, and c next to those which are typical of coaching.
- •4. Paraphrase the last sentence of the text. How far do you agree with it?
- •5. Explain the meaning of the highlighted words/phrases in English.
- •6. Translate from Russian into English.
- •7. Discuss in pairs.
- •2. Underline the key phrases which help differentiate one term from the other.
- •3. Define the phrases from the text which are in bold.
- •2A. Scan through the text to check if you were right.
- •2B. Read the text once again and find potential hazards a team can face at some stages.
- •2C. Using your own teamwork experience, name 1) the stage(s) which can be skipped; 2) the other hazards a team can face at each of the stages.
- •1. Scan through the text below and find out why it has got such a title. Team-building for charity brings tears to my eyes
- •2. Answer the following questions about the text:
- •3. Summarize the text ‘Team-building for charity brings tears to my eyes’.
- •4. Define the words in bold.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate word / phrase from the box.
- •6. Discuss in pairs.
- •1. The title of the text below is The Value of Poaching. Scan through paragraphs 1-3 and find out what poaching is. Write a short definition for this term.
- •Wordlist for unit 8 and 9
- •Unit 12 Management information systems
- •1. Make an outline of the text.
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Think of an appropriate title for the text.
- •4. Explain the difference between data, information and knowledge, providing examples from the sphere of management.
- •1. Make an outline of the text.
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Choose the most appropriate title for the text:
- •4. Answer the questions.
- •What information do you need?
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Speak on the role of data, information and knowledge in management studies or business management using one of the following sets of words.
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •1. Find the topic sentences of the paragraphs. Management Attitude about cis Resources and Their Use
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Match the sentences from the text with the paragraphs 1-9.
- •4. Choose the right alternative.
- •5. Answer the questions.
- •6. Name a few fields where being bullish is vital and being bearish is acceptible; provide supporting arguments.
- •Wordlist for unit 12
Unit 12 Management information systems
TEXT 1
1. Make an outline of the text.
Information systems might differ wildly in form and application but essentially they serve a common purpose which is to convert data into meaningful information which in turn enables the organisation to build knowledge:
Data is unprocessed facts and figures without any added interpretation or analysis. “The price of crude oil is $80 per barrel.”
Information is data that has been interpreted so that it has meaning for the user. “The price of crude oil has risen from $70 to $80 per barrel” gives meaning to the data and so is said to be information to someone who tracks oil prices.
Knowledge is a combination of information, experience and insight that may benefit the individual or the organisation. “When crude oil prices go up by $10 per barrel, it’s likely that petrol prices will rise by 2p per litre” is knowledge.
The boundaries between the three terms are not always clear. What is data to one person is information to someone else. To a commodities trader for example, slight changes in the sea of numbers on a computer screen convey messages which act as information that enables a trader to take action. To almost anyone else they would look like raw data. What matters are the concepts and your ability to use data to build meaningful information and knowledge.
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2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
computer software
particular use something has
an imaginary point separating two different qualities, ideas etc
to perform operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures
to change something into something else
to communicate ideas, feelings etc indirectly
not interpreted facts and figures
an understanding of the true nature of something
consisting of facts that have not been examined or organised
3. Think of an appropriate title for the text.
4. Explain the difference between data, information and knowledge, providing examples from the sphere of management.
TEXT 2
1. Make an outline of the text.
Informix, a software development company, carried out a survey in 1999 to examine how decisions are made in different organisations around the world, and to find out how well the available information, in all its forms, supported the decision making process.
A general finding was that managers, even when they are supported by a multitude of different information sources, find decision making extremely stressful. Most of these managers quoted examples of major decisions that were made incorrectly in the previous six months, and the larger the organisation, the more likely it was to have had a problem. Among the most important negative effects on decision making was using limited, incorrect or misinterpreted data. Some key findings of the survey:
♦ 32 per cent of the sample had made an important business decision in the past six months based on hope or luck.
♦ 33 per cent of managers ignore relevant data either when making a decision in the first place or when it becomes apparent that a decision has been incorrect.
♦ the single biggest cause of stress in decision making is a lack of information.
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