26. Сделайте презентацию, используя любую интересную информацию о деньгах. В основе ее может быть фильм, книга, рассказ или статья. Используйте пройденную лексику.

UNIT 3. COMPANY

1. Работа в парах. Обсудите вопросы.

1. What is the synonym to the word “company”?

2. What is “a company”? How can you define this word?

3. What big national companies of your country do you know?

4. What foreign companies can you name?

2. Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски 1-6 фразами a-f.

a. and services, they need to live

b. to satisfy these basic needs

c. to produce goods and services for sale

d. the people were keen in

e. and all other spheres of human activities

f. that buy and sell for a profit

What is a business?

The human body requires some food, drink and protection from the extremes of climate in order to survive. Therefore, in all times people needed to cooperate in order 1_____. It was clear that if they concentrated their efforts on the activities, in which they excelled, the living standard of the whole community would improve. This specialization also implied that trade would have to take place. The activities, people were engaged in, began no longer to be directed only towards the satisfaction of their own needs but were concentrated in a relatively narrow range of goods and services 2_____, and these goods could be exchanged with other people. So, the communities which we call now “a company” or “a business” appeared many years ago.

Nowadays we all are involved in the process of selling or buying goods and services. The existence of mankind itself requires the work of a tremendous mechanism of trade, where production, all kinds of services, banks, training, politics 3_____are connected with getting money or, in other words, with commerce.

In developed economies, most people sell their skills as an engineer, teacher, plumber, manager, accountant or lawyer to other people, and use the money they get in return to buy the goods 4_____. The activities necessary to provide us with the goods and services we want are carried out in factories, mines, workshops, shops and offices, where a group of people with different skills can co-operate 5_____to other people.

So, “a business” may be defined in different ways, for example: it is a person or group of people buying goods and services in order to produce other goods and services for the purpose of sale at a profit. It can be shorter: a company/a business is an organization 6_____.

3. Соотнесите фразы на английском языке с их русскими эквивалентами.

we all are involved	огромный механизм
to provide us with the goods and services	для того, чтобы выжить
for the purpose of sale at a profit	обеспечить нас товарами и услугами
in order to survive	удовлетворение их собственных потребностей
tremendous mechanism	целью продать ради прибыли
the existence of mankind	мы все вовлечены
to concentrate efforts	существование человечества
the satisfaction of their own needs	сконцентрировать усилия