- •Иванова о.В., Кирильчик т.К.
- •Introduction to economics Введение в экономику
- •What is economics?
- •What is economics?
- •Economic or economical?
- •1.Complete the following sentences with the appropriate word from the list below.
- •Reading I
- •1. Read the text and focus on the following points:
- •The meaning of economics
- •Answer the following questions on the contents of the text.
- •Choose the right variant.
- •4. Expand the sentences, using the information from the text.
- •Read the text and focus on the following:
- •Satisfying people’s wants
- •Answer the following questions on the contents of the text.
- •2.Read the text again and say if the following statements are true or false according to the information in the text.
- •3.Match the beginnings and endings of the following statements.
- •Economic systems
- •1.Say whether the following characteristics of economic systems are typical for a)traditional economic systems, b) command economic systems, c)market economic systems.
- •2.Answer the following questions on the contents of the text.
- •3.Read the text again and say if the following statements are true or false according to the information in the text.
- •4.Complete the following table.
- •1. Match the words listed below with the definitions that follow.
- •2. Group the words that follow into six synonymous groups.
- •3. Group the words that follow into six antonymous groups.
- •4. Complete the sentences with appropriate terms from the list below.
- •5.Add an appropriate preposition to each of the following sentences where indicated.
- •6.Match the words and their definitions.
- •7.The snowball definition game.
- •8.Translate into English.
- •Passive Voice
- •1. Make these sentences passive. Use by if it is necessary to say who did the action.
- •Complete this advertisement, using either active or passive forms.
- •The following passage describes the production of paper. Put the words in brackets into the appropriate forms.
- •Complete these sentences with appropriate passive or active forms of the verbs
- •If possible, rewrite these newspaper headlines as passive sentences. Begin each sentence with It has been … that.. . If it is not possible write X after the headline.
- •Import-Export
- •How to make a good presentation
- •Introducing the first point
- •Inviting questions
- •Adam smith
- •The Vision of Adam Smith
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Which of the following statements are true/false?
- •3. Do you agree or disagree with the following opinions? Why yes and why not? Write an essay of 150-200 words to support your opinion.
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Which of the following statements are true/false?
- •3. Questions for discussion.
- •Сlassical liberalism
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2.Complete the following sentences:
- •3. Questions for discussion.
- •Neoclassical economics
- •The subschools
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Which of the following statements are true/false?
- •3.Questions for discussion.
- •Reference Literature
2. Group the words that follow into six synonymous groups.
aim examination investigation research
analysis exploration merchandise study
buyer goal objective welfare
commodities goods organization well-being
customers inquiry purchaser
establishment institution purpose
3. Group the words that follow into six antonymous groups.
buyer expenditure infinite
consumer finite producer
decline growth seller
employment income unemployment
4. Complete the sentences with appropriate terms from the list below.
allocation of resources macroeconomics economic efficiency development economics microeconomics economic growth normative economics positive economics social sciences opportunity cost econometrics scarce goods factors of production economics |
1.The branch of economics that focuses on the activities of individual decision-making units is ….
The branch of economics that focuses on the behavior of the entire economy is ….
The science that studies how societies allocate scarce resources is ….
The study of economic phenomena that applies mathematical and statistical techniques to economic problems and theories is …
Goods the supply of which is insufficient to satisfy the demand are….
The ability of a manufacturing plant to produce at a low cost or market value is …
Choosing the particular use to which scarce resources(means of production) are put, e.g. whether to use water for electric power or for crops, is…
An economic analysis that includes judgments about what to be done, rather than simply theorizing is…
An economic analysis that is free of value judgments, i.e. independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgments is ….
A branch of economics that examines and explains the process of economic growth and the human and social organizations that make this growth possible is …
The benefits lost by not employing an economic resource in the most profitable alternative activity is …..
Where there is an increase in real output there is…
Those things that are transformed into final goods and services desired by society are…
The group of studies seeking to establish a science of the social life of human groups is called…
5.Add an appropriate preposition to each of the following sentences where indicated.
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About, against, between, in, on, for, into, with
No one ever succeeded … neatly defining the scope of economics.
Macroeconomics is concerned … the economy as a whole.
Economists engage … systematic inquiry … the effects of those human activities which are grouped under three broad headings: production, exchange, and consumption.
Economics seeks to apply a scientific method to construct theories… the processes involved and to test them… what actually happens.
Economics examines conflicting demands… resources and the consequences of whatever choices are made.
Macroeconomics deals … the behavior of individual consumers, companies, traders, and farmers.
Specialised area of economics attempt to answer questions … a broad spectrum of human economic activity, including public finance, money supply and banking, international trade, etc.
Economics deals primarily…relations…buyer and seller.
The areas of investigation… economics overlap…other social sciences.
Many factors are responsible … self-sustaining economic growth.