9.A Make up words which relate to the word “economy” and translate them with the help of the vocabulary:

ECONOM	Y
	ICS
	IC	AL	LY
	IST
	IZE

9.B Use these new words to complete the sentences below.

1. Marx and Keynes are two famous ….

2. The national … is the system of the management and use of resources of a country.

3. Those people are studying the science of ...

4. People should be very ... with the money they earn.

5. The economic system of a country is usually called the national ...

6. It is possible to … if one compares the prices of items before buying them.

7. The people in that town live very ...

8. Inflation may cause a country to be in a bad … state.

9. It is usually more … to buy large amounts of a product than small ones.

10. Work in pairs. Spot mistakes in the following sentences and correct them:

1. Basic needs are growing and changing.

2. Things that provide us with particular personal satisfaction don’t change our life.

3. There is no limit to the economic resources.

4. The science of economics is concerned only with technical progress.

5. Jeans and fur coats are non-essential human needs.

6. Food, clothes and shelter are economic resources.

7. Human wants are the same but the ability to manufacture goods is growing.

8. The basic problem of economics is to satisfy people’s limited wants.

11.A In English, you can make the name of the person who does a job by adding one of the following suffixes:

-er -r -ian -ist

11.B Add one of the suffixes to the following words. You will have to change some of the words a little.

EXAMPLE: politic(s) → politician

1. music

2. buy

3. science

4. electric

5. art

6. produce

7. politics

8. manage

9. photograph

10. work

11. sell

12. physics

12. Supply the missing article (the, a or an):

1. This is … car. … car is new.

2. He has … house. …house is old.

3. The child has … toy. … toy is green and red.

4. This is … piece of coal. … piece of coal is burning.

5. This is … book. … book is about economics.

6. He has … radio. He listens to … radio every day.

7. That is … garage. … garage contains three cars.

8. That is … factory. … factory produces cars.

9. That man is … farmer. … farmer used to breed cattle but now he breeds pigs.

10. Each country has … economic system. … economic system is … sum-total of all … activities in that country.