- •Кафедра «Английский язык»
- •Дубинина Галина Алексеевна Драчинская Ирина Федоровна
- •Полное и частичное воспроизведение или размножение каким-либо способом допускается только с письменного разрешения Финансовой академии при Правительстве рф
- •Contents
- •Who’s Who in the Company
- •Ian Hampden, Ian - Personnel Manager Green, Jack - Shop steward
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 4
- •Phrase list
- •Listen to the introduction to the unit. Answer the following questions and be ready to give a story line. Use the word combinations in brackets.
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •1. What is the purpose of Mr. Duncan’s telephone call to Harper & Grant?
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Sum up everything you came to know from the unit about
- •Phrase list
- •2. What does the General Office deal with?
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •1. What are Peter Wiles’ plans for the day in question?
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •1. How would you describe the system of advertising used in Harper & Grant Ltd.?
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •1. Why does Hector Grant intend to undertake a work study survey?
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •1. What do we call a pension? Is it a compulsory scheme?
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •1. Do Harper & Grant make it a condition of employment that a worker must belong to a certain trade union? What does that mean?
- •Listening Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •2. Why does Harper & Grant Ltd. Belong to private companies?
- •3. What can the death of Ambrose Harper lead to?
- •5. Do the management of Harper & Grant Ltd. Welcome the possibility of a take over?
- •6. How did h.G. Manage to raise a loan?
- •Listening
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •1. Is the situation with the new export market in Abraca encouraging?
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •1. What changes occurred in the structure of the capital of Harper & Grant Ltd. After Hector Grant postponed the possibility of a takeover?
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Illustration 1
- •Phrase list
- •1. What is the main task of the auditors?
- •2. Why has h.G. Changed the firm auditing the firm’s accounts?
- •3. What is w. Buckhurst responsible for?
- •4. Which three documents are in the focus of the auditors’ attention?
- •5. What does the Balance Sheet show?
- •6. Why is stock valuation a mixed blessing?
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •1. How can a firm insure itself against loss or damage to its property?
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Post-listening Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Explain why and how hi-jackers stole office-furniture.
Exercise 5
Match each of the phrases on the left with an appropriate explanation on the right. Fill in the grid below.
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clocking in |
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slang expression used for an unofficial strike, which takes place without union approval, i.e. it is organized by the employees themselves |
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to strike |
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extra hours over and above the ordinary working day: working late at night, on Saturdays and Sundays, etc. |
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“wild cat” strike |
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to lose some of one’s wages: a portion of the wages normally payable is deducted and is not paid. |
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trade union |
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usual pay for working overtime is the ordinary pay per hour, plus half as much again. For certain extra hours the pay can be time and a quarter, or double time. |
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to get pay docked |
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paid employee of a union who looks after the interests of members in a certain area. |
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wage claim |
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On arrival an employee takes his card out of the rack and puts it in the time clock, which registers the correct time on it. On leaving he takes his card out of the rack and again puts it in the time clock. |
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overtime |
G |
slang term for the actual leaving by employees of their place of work in protest, usually the start of a strike. |
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time and a half |
H |
refusal to go on working in order to get more pay, or shorter hours, or improved conditions, or as a protest |
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profit-sharing scheme |
I |
in industry a demand for higher wages (money paid to workers, usually weekly) |
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District Organiser |
J |
organization whose main functions are to protect the interests of its members and secure the best possible wages and conditions of work for them |
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walk out |
K |
a system of allowing employees to share in profits by arranging for them to buy shares in the company, or by issuing a bonus scheme, etc. |
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Post-listening
Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
What are the main functions of the trade union?
What is the reason for trouble in he press room?
What are the grounds for Smith’s wage claim?
Why does I. Hampden feel that the system of profit sharing should be introduced in the firm?
How has I. Hampden managed to make J. Green approve the profit-sharing proposals?
Recount the situation as if you were Jack Green, say whether you are in favour of the profit sharing scheme suggested by Ian Hampden.
Suppose you are Ted Fielding. Do you approve of the way Ian settled the problem?
Speak as if you were Ian Hampden and brief the audience on the chief responsibilities of a Personnel Manager. Is engagement and dismissal of employees his only function?
Suppose you are Symes, an employee who stands by the time clock. Brief a trainee on the following matters:
what an employee has to do with his time card when he arrives or leaves his place of work;
what an employee should expect to happen to his pay if he arrived late at work.
Suppose you are the District Organiser of the National Worker’s Union. Say
what responsibilities of a shop steward are;
if a worker belongs to the union, to whom he pays subscription or union dues;
if an employee works late, what extra money he could claim.
Act out
an imaginary conversation between Ian Hampden and Peter Wiles after Ian’s talk with Jack Green;
an imaginary talk between Jack Green and Smith after Green’s talk with Ian Hampden.
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Unit13 |
Risk of a Takeover |