Grammar and Lexis

Ex. 17. Work together in groups of four or five and decide...

1. Do you want your family lo change the spending pattern? Would you like your parents to spend more on food/clothes/holidays/entertainment/du­ rable goods? Would you like your parents to let you decide what to do with the money they give you?

2. What makes people buy goods by hire purchase/live on credit/rent prop­ erty/borrow money?

3. What services do you want your local authorities lo improve? (health care/ social services to the elderly people/keeping streets clean/collecting rub­ bish/school and univeisity education)

4. What does business expect the government lo do to support it? (to ease regulations/to dampen intlation/to provide information/to break monop­ olistic groups/to promote competition/to deregulate the economy)

5. What would you like the federal government to do for people? (to raise wages and salaries/to improve services/to help people at the subsistence level/to support the young/to help low-income parents/to create new jobs)

6. Are there any students in your group who have an artistic talent? Have you heard them singing or playing musical instruments? Have you seen them dancing? Would you like to see them performing?

Be prepared to justify your answers!

Ex. 18. Practise these words and word combinations, power(s)

1. I ransljili' into English:

1. Полномочия местных органов власти были недавно изменены.

2. Полномочия президента компании были расширены.

3. Кто уполномочен (имеет полномочия) подписать этот документ?

4. Власть в компании разделена между директорами и акционерами.

2. Лпчжт these questions:

1. Do you agree that the purchasing power of teenagers has increased signif- icanlly?

2. Do your parents still have a lot of power over you? Do you want to be freer and more independent?

authority, authorities

1. Translate into Russian, pay attention to the verbs which are used witli Die word au­thority:

\) The local authorities have built a new school.

2. They don't have the authority to close the factory.

3. The president of the company failed to exercise his authority.

4. Who is in authority here?

5. He was given authority to sign the agreement.

2. Answer these questions:

1. Do you think that the authorities at the place where you live perform their functions successfully?

2. Do they spend sufficient budget resources on health services, education, housing, and development of transport?

to raise vs to rise

1. Translate into Russian:

1. Unemployment rises in a time of depression.

2. Prices have not risen this month.

3. Accountants raised their fees last year.

4. The government has raised taxes.

5. Producers raised the quality standards for the industry.

6. An important issue was raised at the meeting,

7. They are trying to raise funds front different sources.

8. It's ditticult to raise capital in a time of inflation.