
- •Isbn 966-629-071-5
- •Contents
- •Business and entrepreneurship
- •Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •A business vs. Business
- •What is Business?
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •When pleasure interferes with business, give up business. (from American)
- •Lesson 2
- •Which word?
- •Verbs frequently used with Business Conduct; do; transact; drum up; build up; establish; launch; set up in; manage; operate; run.
- •Which word?
- •Forms of Business Organization
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •“Mom and pop business” [`mOm ænd pOp `bıznəs] – амер. Дрібне приватне підприємництво; родинний бізнес, приватна крамничка;
- •Colloquial expression [kə`ləukwiəl ık`spre∫ən] – розмовний зворот (вираз);
- •Which word?
- •Which word?
- •Design, invent or engineer?
- •Which word?
- •Creative / artistic / innovative / original / imaginative / ingenious / inventive
- •Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship
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- •Lesson 2
- •Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Vocabulary building intrapreneur
- •Unit 3. Doing business internationally Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •Adjective or noun?
- •B) Read aloud the following sentences paying attention to the words in italics.
- •Task 9. Think and answer.
- •Task 10. Practice reading the following words.
- •Task 11. Read the text.
- •International Business
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Task 14. A) Translate the words in column a and their derivatives in columns b and c. Use your dictionary if necessary.
- •Lesson 2
- •Careers in International Business
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Words easily confused
- •Affect / effect [ə`fekt] [ı`fekt]
- •Unit 4. Communication in business Lesson 1
- •Modern Means of Business Communication
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •The Internet
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
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- •How are computer words formed?
- •Lesson 2
- •Cross-cultural Barriers to Business Communication
- •1) Stereotypes
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •2) Time
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- •3) Space
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •4) Body language
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •5) Etiquette
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •6) Translation problems
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •Words easily confused
- •Module test 1.
- •Variant 1.
- •Variant 2.
- •Variant 3.
- •Econom-
- •Which word?
- •Economics vs. Economy
- •The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
- •Economics
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •“The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.”
- •“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” (Will Smith)
- •Lesson 2
- •Which word?
- •Economic vs. Economical
- •Which word?
- •Economic goods vs. Economy goods
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Increase, growth or rise?
- •Economy
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •Trade / business / industry
- •Which word?
- •Supplier or distributor?
- •Task 12. A) Define the meaning of the word “трейдер” in Ukrainian. Let the following headlines from Ukrainian mass media be your clues.
- •What is Trade?
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 2
- •Trade or Commerce?
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Verb or noun?
- •Vocabulary building bimonthly / biweekly biyearly etc.
- •Forms of Trade
- •Vocabulaty Notes:
- •Lesson 3
- •Which word?
- •Trade vs. Trades
- •International Trade
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •Lesson 4
- •Modern Patterns of International Trade
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •Module test 2.
- •Variant 1.
- •Variant 2.
- •Variant 3.
- •Product, market and marketing
- •Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •Noun or verb?
- •A service that people can buy, especially a way of investing or saving money
- •Which word?
- •Brand / label / make
- •Vocabulary Notes:
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- •What is Product?
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 2
- •Which word?
- •Product Breadth vs. Product Depth
- •Three Levels of a Product
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Understanding Information on Products
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 3
- •-Ability
- •Market-
- •Which word?
- •Marketplace vs. Marketspace
- •Which word?
- •Market niche vs. Niche market
- •Adjectives frequently used with market
- •Narrow / short / thin / heavy / tight / weak / broad / close / distant
- •Which word?
- •Demand or market?
- •Market and Market Relations
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •Desire vs. Need / desire vs. Wish / need vs. Urge
- •Which word?
- •Distribution / delivery / dispatch / logistics
- •What is Marketing?
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 2
- •Careers in Marketing
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Торговець, продавець
- •Extended Marketing Mix
- •Vocabulary notes:
- •Which word?
- •Customer / client / clientele / consumer / account
- •Lesson 3
- •Which word?
- •Advertising vs. Advertisement
- •Advertising
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Copyright vs. Copywriter
- •Advertising Today
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Task 27. Translate into English.
- •Marketing vs. Advertising: What’s the Difference?
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Money and banking
- •Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •Money vs. Moneys / monies
- •Which word?
- •What is Money?
- •Vocabulary notes:
- •Lesson 2
- •Vocabulary building Describing what happens to currencies
- •Money vs. Currency
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 1
- •Vocabulary building When a company fails
- •Bank Staff
- •Vocabulary notes:
- •Lesson 2
- •What is a Bank?
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Credit vs. Loan
- •Which word?
- •Share vs. Stock
- •Task 10. Practice reading the following words.
- •Task 11. Read the text. What is Finance? (Part I)
- •Vocabulary notes:
- •Task 13. Agree or disagree with the following statements.
- •Task 15. Find in the text “What is Finance?” (Part I) (Task 11) the words opposite in meaning to the following:
- •Which word?
- •Income / earnings / revenue
- •What three basic things do companies do when they lack money to cover operating costs?
- •Lesson 2
- •Which word?
- •Fund vs finance
- •Task 3. Practice reading the following words.
- •Task 4. Read the text. What is Finance? (Part II)
- •Vocabulary notes:
- •Which word?
- •Task 15. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate terms from the box.
- •Lesson 3
- •Accounting Connected with the period of twelve months over which a government or a company prepares a full set of financial records, or part of this period
- •Which word?
- •Fiscal vs. Financial
- •Year in Year out
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Fiscal Crises vs. Financial Crises
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •Account / bill / invoice / check / tab
- •Accounting Overview
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Task 18. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate terms from the box. Translate the passage.
- •Lesson 2
- •Accounting Overview
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Task 4. Give number of the paragraph(s) in which they discuss …
- •Task 9. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate terms from the box. Translate the passage.
- •Company. Human resources. Management
- •Lesson 1
- •Which word?
- •Company vs. Campaign
- •Which word?
- •Corporation vs. Company
- •Talking about Companies
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Task 17. In the text “Talking about Companies” (Task 12) find the words which can be tranlsted as:
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- •Lesson 2
- •Vocabulary building Starting a business
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •Vocabulary building Subsidiaries and groups of companies
- •Some of the World’s Oldest Companies
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
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- •Lesson 3
- •Which word?
- •Organizational Structure
- •Vocabulary Notes:
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- •Lesson 4
- •Vocabulary building colleagues and rivals
- •Vocabulary building Staff
- •Human Resources
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Ensure vs. Insure
- •Vocabulary building Employing people
- •Vocabulary building Getting rid of employees
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 1
- •-Ability
- •Vocabulary building Words for Bosses
- •Management and Managers
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Lesson 2
- •Levels and Patterns of Management
- •Vocabulary Notes:
- •Lesson 3
- •Which word?
- •Authoritarian / authoritative / autocratic / bossy
- •Leadership Styles
- •Vocabulary and Cultural Notes:
- •Which word?
- •Eeffective vs. Efficient
- •Module test 6.
- •Variant 1. Task 1. Which word is being transcribed? Give the spelling of the words.
- •Task 4. What term is being defined?
- •An organization that a company forms for its employees to represent them when dealing with the managers;
- •Variant 3. Task 1. Which word is being transcribed? Give the spelling of the words.
- •Task 4. What term is being defined?
- •Afterword:
- •Glossary of terms
- •References:
- •Іт ресурси:
-MENT-Ability
-BACK
-SHIP
-ABLE
-IAL
-ISM
b) Which of the derived words means:
“Менеджеризм” (концепція, згідно якої контроль над великими корпораціями, а разом з ним і влада в економічному житті суспільства, поступово переходить від акціонерів до рук керуючих цими корпораціями менеджерів);
директорський; керівний; такий, що відноситься до управління, адміністративний; організаторський;
жінка-менеджер; завідувачка;
завідувач; директор, керівник; менеджер; імпресаріо;
збереження управління (операція, під час якої одна сторона продає певні активи іншій стороні, продовжуючи виконувати функцію керування цими активами за певну винагороду; наприклад, власник і керівник якогось підприємства продає право власності на це підприємство, але залишається його керівником);
керованість; контрольованість; здійсненність, здійснимість; піддатливість, податливість;
керуючий; такий, що вміє організувати керування (чимось); такий, що володіє виконавчими повноваженнями; діловий, вольовий, енергійний;
менеджерист (прихильник доктрини “менеджеризму”);
посада менеджера, керівника, директора (як сукупність прав, привілеїв, обов’язків); управління, керівництво (як сукупність прийомів взаємодії з людьми й процесами в процесі розв’язання управлінських завдань);
такий, що піддається керуванню; легко керований; слухняний, лагідний, поступливий; здійсненний, здійснимий
управління; керівництво; завідування; менеджмент;
управляти, керувати; завідувати; справитися, впоратися; ухитрятися, примудрятися?
Task 6. Translate into Ukrainian paying attention to the words in italics.
1. He manages the family business. 2. How many people do you manage? 3. Good managers know how to use the skills of the people who work under them. 4. She’s the manager of the accounts department. 5. The heart of effective management is communication. 6. The company is now under new management. 7. The debt has been reduced to a more manageable level. 8. IT technologies could improve the manageability of your company’s digital assets. 9. The company strategy is based on MAP (Manageability, Availability, Performance). 10. Sale and manageback was the only way to retain control of the company. 11. Manageress is an old-fashioned word for a woman who is responsible for running a shop or office. 12. She is a manageress of a bookshop. 13. After years of clerical work John was promoted into some kind of managerial job. 14. Do you have any managerial experience? 15. He showed himself a convinced managerialist. 16. He is a staunch supporter of managerism. 17. The project managership is far from being perfect. 18. His twenty-year managership hardly changed his character. 19. He joined the board as managing director in 2008. 20. Our managing staff proved to be highly efficient.
Task 7. Study the following words.
Vocabulary building Words for Bosses
Top management
Middle management
NOTE: The word direct report is used to describe a person that you are directly responsible for, at any level of an organization: Line managers should set targets with their direct reports. The phrase immediate boss / supervisor can be used to describe the person that you are responsible to.
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Task 8. a) Match the terms in column A with their definitions in column B:
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b) Which of the above words means:
Безпосередній начальник;
директор, управитель; керівник;
доглядач; наглядач; контролер; інспектор школи; супервізор;
завідувач; директор, керівник; менеджер;
керівник; управитель; завідувач, директор;
майстер; старший робітник, десятник; виконавець робіт;
наймач, роботодавець;
правитель; губернатор; комендант; директор (банку); хазяїн;
хазяїн; господар; бос; підприємець?
c) Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the words in italics.
My boss won’t like it.
Who’s boss around here?
I’ll have to ask the governor.
He is a foreman on a building site.
I’d like to speak to my line manager.
Taylor is now a director of the company.
The foreman swore at one of the workers.
Daniel’s employers offered him a pay rise.
She became director of finance at the company.
The factory is the largest single employer in the area.
He had to accept everything his governor said to him.
For three years he was the manager of a radio station.
The school’s Board of Governors meet tomorrow night.
The assistant manager has been promoted to run the store.
I have regular one-to-one meetings with my line manager.
He became superintendent of the bank’s East African branches.
A supervisor is the lowest, or most-junior, management position.
My supervisor said he would strongly recommend me for the course.
The Governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England.
The general sense of superintendent “a person who has charge of some business” is first recorded in 1588.
Task 9. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate terms from the box. Translate the passage into Ukrainian.
performance |
experience |
authority |
fire |
management |
productive |
work roles |
team |
A supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day (1)_____ of a small group. It may be a (2)_____, or a shift. The supervisor has (3)_____ in what the group does, but is not necessarily better at it than everyone he/she supervises. The supervisor’s job is to guide the group toward its goals, see that all members of the team are (4)_____, and resolve problems as they arise.
A supervisor generally does not have the power to hire or (5)_____ employees or to promote them. A supervisor usually recommends such action to the next level of (6)_____. The supervisor does, however, often have the (7)_____ to change the (8)_____ of the members of the team, for instance deciding which individual will work at which station.
Task 10. Practice reading the following words.
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Task 11. Read the text.