- •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.
Listening
Exercise 1
You are going to hear a talk between Hector Grant and Peter Wiles. Before you listen to the conversation look at these statements, which you will mark T (True) or F (False) after you have listened to the tape.
1. |
Harper & Grant Ltd. is on the verge of the biggest crisis in the history of the firm, but it has nothing to do with Ambrose Harper's death. |
2. |
The shares of the company are distributed so that Peter Wiles’s mother and Hector Grant own the lion's share with fifty per cent. |
3. |
The mattress-makers over the road, Wentworth and Company have ten per cent of the shares. |
4. |
Ambrose Harper has left two thousand of his two thousand five hundred shares to form a trust. |
5. |
Ambrose Harper has left five hundred thousand pounds to his sister. |
6. |
H.G. spoke to Caroline after the solicitor had finished reading Ambrose's will, and she told him she'd had a very generous offer for the shares. |
7. |
H. G. is sure that only Wentworth, who wanted to get in Harper & Grant for a long time, knew Caroline was Ambrose's only remaining relative. |
8. |
Caroline can sell her shares without offering them first to the other shareholders because Harper & Grant are a private company. |
9. |
Some of the present managers of Harper & Grant Ltd. had to sell their shares and Wentworth easily got a further interest in the company. |
10. |
Peter Wiles is always in the red because he lives in a great way*. |
11. |
H.G. and his colleagues have to raise a loan and buy enough of the shares to keep the controlling interest. |
12. |
The total share capital had a market value of about five hundred thousand dollars when Ambrose Harper died. |
13. |
If H.G. bought two hundred and fifty shares that would be about twenty-five thousand pounds. |
Exercise 2
Act as an interpreter.
Grant: Good morning, Mr. Brewer. Good of you to see me at such short notice.
Бруэр: Для таких солидных клиентов, как вы, м-р Грант, у нас всегда найдется свободное время. Чем могу быть полезен?
Grant: I want a loan ... or an overdraft ... right away. Twenty-five thousand.
Бруэр: Понимаю. 25 тысяч? Да, это очень большая сумма.
Grant: Not for me. You know how well the firm is doing.
Бруэр: Да, но, вероятно, фирма не в состоянии обеспечить гарантии выплаты ссуды, если вам требуется персональный заем.
Grant: Really, Mr. Brewer, this is rather unnecessary, isn't it? You have our record, my record, of business as your guarantee. You know me well enough to advance me an unsecured loan, surely.
Бруэр: Как вам известно, мне придется обратиться в наше главное управление, но они там будут исходить из моих рекомендаций, а я не думаю, что готов это сделать без того или иного обеспечения ссуды.
Grant: Oh? Well, what are you going to do about it? I can tell you one thing. If there's any question of not getting a loan, I'll consider taking my account, and that of the company, elsewhere.
Бруэр: Может, вам и придется об этом подумать, м-р Грант. Но, если позволите, я бы хотел заметить, что любой управляющий банком придерживался бы такой же точки зрения. Может быть, в такой ситуации более уместно хорошенько подумать, какую форму обеспечения ссуды вы могли бы нам предложить? У вас большой дом. Он заложен?
Grant: It is.
Бруэр: Очень жаль. Ваши права собственности на этот дом, могли бы быть замечательной гарантией. Стоимость дома какая, 20 тысяч?
Grant: Thirty. The mortgage is with the Albion Building Society.
Бруэр: Тогда есть возможность получить повторную закладную на вашу собственность. Хотя могу сказать вам откровенно, наше главное управление не очень-то одобряет перезалог ... Тем не менее, я мог бы порекомендовать им действовать именно в этом направлении.
Grant: How would you arrange the credit?
Бруэр: Ну, если согласятся в главном управлении, вы могли бы получить сразу всю сумму, и выплата включала бы 2%-ю надбавку к банковской процентной ставке, то есть всего 9%. Ссуда могла бы быть краткосрочной, ну, скажем, на три года.
Grant: Well, you work all that out. I accept your advice. All I want is the money, and I want it quickly.