- •Unit 1. Employment Issues
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Active Participation of Women in the Labour Force
- •Unit 2. Public Relations
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Unit 3. Spending on Education
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Investing in Brains
- •University fees
- •Unit 4. Corporate Morals. The Psychology of Power
- •Only the little people pay taxes...
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 5. A Competitive Spirit in Business
- •Unit 6. The World Economy. New Dangers
- •Supply chains in China
- •Unit 7. Innovations
- •Opting for the quiet life
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Innovations in cell phones
- •Unit 8. Joint Bosses. The Trouble With Tandem
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 9. Storing and Managing Economic Information
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Unit 10. Food Production and Consumption
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Genetically modified food Attack of the really quite likeable tomatoes
- •More than strange fruits
- •Unit 11. Economy and Environment. Climate Change
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •For peat’s sake, stop
- •Spin, science and climate change
- •Insuring against catastrophe
- •Unit 12. Intellectual Property Rights and Music Piracy
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •How to sink pirates
- •Appendix 1. Role Plays
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •Unit 1. Employment Issues.
- •Unit 2. Public Relations
- •Unit 3. Spending on Education. Investing in Brain
- •University fees
- •Unit 4. Corporate Morals. The psychology of Power
- •Corporate crime is on the rise The rot spreads
- •Unit 5. A Competitive Spirit in Business Spit and polish
- •Unit 6. World Economy. New Dangers
- •Supply chains in China
- •Unit 7. Innovations
- •Unit 8. Joint Bosses. The Trouble With Tnadem
- •Unit 9. Storing and Managing Economic Information The data deluge
- •Unit 10. Food Production and Consumption
- •A hill of beans
- •Unit 11. Economy and Environment. Climate Change For peat’s sake, stop
- •Unit 12. Intellectual Property Rights and Music Piracy Singing a different tune
- •Bibliography
- •Contents
- •Вопросы мировой экономики/world economy issues
- •400131, Волгоград, просп. Им. В. И. Ленина, 28.
- •400131 Волгоград, ул. Советская, 35.
Vocabulary
Exercise 7. Look through the report (Exercise 5) and make a list of four synonymic expressions meaning “shared leadership” and one antonym.
Exercise 8. Study the report again (Exercise 5) and find the adequate English equivalents of the following words and phrases: 1) вызывать, запускать, 2) добиваться власти путем махинаций, 3)ответственный, 4) трудный (жесткий), 5) привлекать к ответственности, 6) оплачивать счет, 7) убедительное доказательство (2 synonymic phrases), 8) слияние, 9) основная причина (довод), 10) сдваивать, 11) избегать конфликта/обострять конфликт, 12) в противном случае, 13) истинный сторонник, 14) справляться с чем-либо, 15) давать преимущество перед чем-либо, 16) внешние консультанты, 17) отражать, 18) разделяемые обязанности, 19) ухаживать (нянчиться), 20) руководитель, действующий за сценой, 21) наблюдательный совет, 22) влиятельная фигура, 23) командовать (отдавать приказы), 24) внимательно следить за кем-либо.
Exercise 9. Translate the following sentences into English using the target vocabulary (Exercises 2 and 8):
Если ситуация начнет выходить из-под контроля, обратитесь за помощью к внешним консультантам.
Основной причиной дестабилизации нашего бизнеса является отсутствие координации между отделами компании.
Мой брат очень влиятельная фигура в наблюдательном совете, он несет ответственность за инвестиционную политику.
Меня беспокоит, главным образом, возможное слияние нашей компании с этим крупным синдикатом – едва ли это даст нам преимущества, а вот они будут внимательно следить за всей нашей деятельностью.
Отсутствие понимания между руководителями обострило конфликт и вызвало кризис компании.
Exercise 10. Paraphrase the following sentences using the target vocabulary (Exercises 2, 8):
The situation was quite complicated but we managed to prevent any conflicts.
They were the true followers and supported odd rituals of their religious sect.
You should learn to command or your business will fail.
Speaking
Exercise 11. Work in pairs. Act out a dialogue between two joint bosses of a large corporation using your target vocabulary (Exercises 2, 8).
Exercise 12. Free discussion.
a) Answer the following questions. Give your opinion and justify it.
1) What pluses and minuses of the joint stewardships can you think of?
2) Why do you think IT area tends to maintain a higher ratio of joint leadership compared to other fields of activity?
3) Why do you think the idea of three or four co-bosses has never been so popular as the idea of dual bosses?
4) If you have two bosses, who is ultimately the boss?
b) Write down a short summary based on the results of the discussion.
Unit 9. Storing and Managing Economic Information
Lead-in
Exercise 1. Starting up:
How did people use to store information a thousand/a century ago? How did information storage and transfer methods develop in the course of time?
How do you manage to keep necessary information in order?
Why do you think people nowadays have to deal with rapidly increasing amount of information?