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  1. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate form of the verb.

1. I ...(call) a meeting by the end of the week. 2. ... you...(give) your report by Monday? 3. The meeting...(finish) by 4. p.m. 4. Unfortunately, we ...(not deliver) by that time. 5. We...(send) draft proposals before you leave for Tokyo.6. We...(recruit) 30 employees by the end of the quarter.

7. ....you...(fix) the assembly line by 9.00 tomorrow morning? 8. They...(put) two new lines of products by January,1st.*

*

  • Pay attention to different ways of writing the dates in American and English languages: British English – the first of September, American English - January first.

  • In British English there are some ways of writing dates:

15th April, 2008

April 15th, 2008

April 15, 2008

Names of months have Latin origin. They are written with capital letters in English.

Compare:

January − январь

February − февраль

March − март

April −апрель

May − май

June −июнь

July − июль

August − август

September − сентябрь

October − октябрь

November − ноябрь

December −декабрь

  1. Open the brackets. Use the Present Simple, Future Simple or Future Perfect Tenses.

1. I...(file) the records some time later today. 2. If we...(offer) them a 10% discount, they..(accept) our proposal. 3. We...(organize) trainings for the marketing people in October.

4. We..( double) sales by the third quarter. 5. Nordic Pipe...(build) 1,200 km of pipe lines by 1st June, 2016. 6. If we...(persuade) customers to buy Model F, our profits...(go up) by 4%.

7. Unless we...(open) a help-line, we...(go on) losing customers. 8. Our company...(be) in the wholesale trade for ten years by 2017.

  1. Translate the following sentences into English.

1. Мы выставим на рынок совершенно новый продукт до конца месяца. 2. Если мы передадим транспортные функции на аутсорсинг, наши прибыли существенно возрастут. 3. Если Вы посмотрите на график, Вы увидите две линии: ломаную и пунктирную. Ломаная линия иллюстрирует оборот, а пунктирная показывает количество персонала.

4. Цена акций достигнет пика к 1 сентября. 5. Мы обсудим это в разделе «Разное». 6. Мы снимем пункт 5 , если нам не будет хватать времени. 7. Атлантик Петролеум переработает 100 000 000 баррелей сырой нефти к концу этого года.

25. Improve your pronunciation skills:[ m ], [ n ], [ ŋ ]

Listen to the tape and put the words with these sounds in an appropriate column.

[ m ]

[ n ]

[ŋ ]

tomorrow

finish

thing

Listen to the tape and repeat the tongue twister:

I can think of six thin things,

Six thin things, can you?

Yes, I can think of six thin things

And of six thick things too.

26. Pre-reading task

1. Make a presentation about the life and works of John Galsworthy

2. Read the text.

3. Watch the corresponding episode from the film “The Forsyte Saga”

4. Compare your impressions from the film and from the text.

5. Discuss your impressions with your friend.

6. If you haven’t read the story yet, try to guess why the thoughts of good solid wives roused uneasiness in Soames.

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