10. A) Ask Mark questions. Look at the answers before you write the questions.
b) Put the words in brackets in the correct order. All the sentences are questions.
1. (how/cheese/is/made)____________________________________?
2. (why/Sue/working/isn’t/today)_____________________________?
3. (what time/coming your friends/are)_________________________?
4. (where/your mother/was/born)_____________________________?
5. (why/you/to the party/didn’t come)__________________________?
6. (How/the accident/did/happen)_____________________________?
7. (why/this machine/doesn’t work)___________________________?
Write the questions.
In pairs, ask and answer as many questions as you can about the organization you are working in.
WHAT SORT OF THE COMPANY IS IT?
1. What is “company”? Give your definition. What kind of companies do you know?
2. Read about the companies. Then, cover the left-hand column, and from the description try to name the type of organization described.
There are many types of business organization, and the different terms can be confusing. The left-hand column below gives various types of organization, and the other column contains short descriptions of each type.
company (UK) organization operating to make profit corporation (US) society friendly association of people;e.g., a sports society enterprise new commercial activity; e.g.: How is your new enterprise? Also in some company names; e.g.: Smiths Enterprise limited company firm where shareholders’ liability is limited cooperative democratic firm owned by its workers multinational organization operating in several countries parent company company which owns another subsidiary (=affiliate) firm owned by a parent company holding company firm, usually without commercial activity, created to be parent to other companies public company company whose shares are publicly available private company company whose shares are not publicly available nationalized company company owned by the state government agency organization which is part of the state administration charity organization to relieve poverty, advance religion or education, etc.; benefits from some financial concessions offshore company firm based in a tax haven to avoid higher taxation minority interest company in which another firm has less than a 50 per sent interest. operation general word for a company, usually a small one, and part of a large group. It also means activity4 e.g.: our commercial operation
partnership two or more partners working together for profit, without limited liability.
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