Text 2 General Motors Worldwide

General Motors (GM) has operations in 50 countries and worldwide employment of 608, 000 people. Best known as a full-line vehicle manufacturer, GM has worldwide factory sales of more than 8.5 million motor vehicles a year. It manufactures and sells cars and trucks through a variety of brands, including Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Saturn, Opel, Vauxhall, Holden, Isuzu, and Saab.

GM also has other substantial business interests. Its Delphi Automotive Systems supplies components and systems to every major automotive manufacturer. General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) and its subsidiaries provide a broad range of financial services and insurance products to GM customers, dealers and employees. Hughes Space and Communications Company is a specialist in telecommunications, including satellite manufacturing and services, network systems, and direct-to-home TV broadcast. GM Locomotive Group produces diesel-electric locomotives and related products. Allison Transmission is the largest U.S. producer of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle transmissions. In total, GM’s worldwide annual net sales and revenues are over $ 178 billion.

GM’s vision is to be the world leader in transportation products and related services. Their core values are customer enthusiasm, continuous improvement, innovation, integrity, and teamwork. GM’s priorities are to run fast, compete on a global basis, and grow all business sectors.

6. Ответьте на вопросы:

1) What kind of company is General Motors?

2) What car and truck brands does the company manufacture?

3) What other business interests does GM have?

4) What subsidiaries of the company do you know?

5) GM’s vision is to be the world leader in transportation products, isn’t it?

6) Why are innovation and teamwork among GM’s core values?

7. Закончите предложения, произведя нужный выбор:

1) General Motors	a) are over $ 178 billion.
2) GM Locomotive Group	b) has operations in 50 countries.
3) In total, GM’s worldwide annual net sales and revenues	c) produces diesel-electric locomotives and related products.

8. Расскажите на английском языке все, что вы узнали об американской компании General Motors.

Part 3

1. Прочтите и запомните значения следующих слов и словосочетаний:

owner n	владелец; собственник; хозяин
leading a	ведущий; руководящий; передовой
advertising agency	рекламное агентство
annually adv	ежегодно
graduate from v	окончить (вуз)
loan n	заем; ссуда
single-mindedness n	целеустремленность
enormous a	огромный, громадный
outstanding a	выдающийся
concept n	понятие, идея; общее представление
stock market	фондовая биржа
buy v	покупать; приобретать
sell v	продавать; торговать
goods n, pl	товар; товары; вещи

2. Из следующих слов выделите: а) глаголы, b) существительные, с) прилагательные, d) наречия. Переведите их на русский язык:

creative, decide, future, cheaply, call, enormous, career, actually, consider, achievement, goods, outstanding, enable.

3. Переведите следующие производные слова:

to graduate – graduation to run –running

to administer – administration to market - marketing

to specialize – specialization to advertise – advertising

to consider – consideration to manufacture - manufacturing

4. Подберите слова близкие по значению:

1) enormous a	a) prominent a
2) owner n	b) share n
3) leading a	c) huge a
4) cheap a	d) purchase v
5) stock n	e) idea n
6) buy v	f) inexpensive a
7) concept n	g) holder n
8) outstanding a	h) advanced a

5. Соотнесите английские фразы из левой колонки с их русскими эквивалентами в правой:

1) black consumer market	a) стоимость компании
2) record business	b) в сочетании со способностями
3) combined with abilities	c) дать возможность
4) innovating marketing	d) индустрия звукозаписи
5) to give a chance	e) купили акции
6) the value of the company	f) потребительский рынок для чернокожих
7) bought stocks	g) инновационная рыночная деятельность

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