- •АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК
- •УТВЕРЖДАЮ
- •АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК
- •Who’s Who in the Company
- •Green, Jack - Shop steward
- •The History of the Company
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 4
- •Unit 1
- •New Markets Are Vital
- •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.
- •1. What kind of decision does Hector Grant have to make?
- •(the Managing Director; to allow somebody to do something; John Martin; the Sales Manager; to go on an expensive fact-finding tour of a country; Africa; Abraca)
- •2. What was the matter that John Martin was discussing with Peter Wiles?
- •(the Production Manager; The Times newspaper; the recent discovery of oil; in Abraca; to find out; to export to; the capital city, Djemsa; a lot of new government offices; to be built; to open up a new market)
- •3. Is Hector Grant positive about opening up a new market in Africa?
- •(H.G.; one’s staff; to use one’s initials; to remember a disastrous attempt; to export to a country in South America; to lose a lot of money; to be inclined to be cautious, a bit worried about; the difficulties involved and the expense)
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •Exercise 2
- •POST-LISTENING
- •A Visit to the Factory
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •Exercise 2
- •I’ll take you to the assembly shop …
- •Exercise 3
- •Elizabeth:
- •POST-LISTENING
- •Sum up everything you came to know from the unit about
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •Exercise 2
- •John Martin:
- •John:
- •Is this it, Mr. Martin?
- •John:
- •John:
- •John:
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •POST-LISTENING
- •Unit 4
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •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
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •The job of an advertising manager in Harper & Grant Ltd. is hardly the right job for Mr. Windsmore.
- •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.
- •Productivity – A Work Study Survey
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •Exercise 2
- •John:
- •John:
- •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.
- •The Pension Fund Meeting
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •Exercise 2
- •Grant:
- •Grant:
- •Peter:
- •Grant:
- •Peter:
- •Grant:
- •Peter:
- •Grant:
- •Peter:
- •Grant:
- •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.
- •A Labour Dispute
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •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.
- •Risk of a Takeover
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •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.
- •Dealing with an Important New Market
- •Phrase list
- •Task2
- •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.
- •The New Board of Directors
- •Phrase list
- •Task2
- •Exercise 2
- •Grant:
- •Grant:
- •Grant:
- •Grant:
- •What do you think, William?
- •Buckhurst:
- •Grant:
- •Peter:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Grant:
- •Buckhurst:
- •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.
- •Unit 19
- •Auditing the Accounts
- •Phrase list
- •Task 2
- •Exercise 2
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Brent:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •the name for everything that a company owes
- •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.
- •Debtors
- •Phrase list
- •Task I
- •Task 2
- •LISTENING
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •Buckhurst:
- •POST-LISTENING
- •Unit 23
- •Task 2
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Mr. Roberts:
- •Mr. Roberts:
- •Exercise 4
- •payment made by the insured person to the users
- •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.
Unit 12 |
A Labour Dispute |
Phrase list
Listen to the tape and practise the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations, quote the sentences in which they are used in the unit. Consult a dictionary and translate them into Russian.
to have a closed shop office staff
clerical union
to pay a subscription
to collect union dues (on the premises) shop steward
medical schemes legal aid
to introduce a profit-sharing scheme to take a cut in wages
to clock in
Trying to cheat the system is a very serious offence. to dismiss staff / a case of dismissal
the employees’ welfare straightforward affair to get one’s pay docked
to punch the card for some time to affect the issue
to pay overtime (time and a half)
to have smth (a walk-out) on one’s hands to bring something up
to press a wage claim
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PRE-LISTENING
Task 1
Consider the introduction to the unit. Answer the following questions and be ready to give a story line. Use the word combinations in brackets.
1. Do Harper & Grant make it a condition of employment that a worker must belong to a certain trade union? What does that mean?
(to have a closed shop; to be members of one or other of the unions; toolmakers; skilled machiners (machinists); sheet-metal workers; assembly-shop workers; fitters; electricians; office staff; to belong to a clerical union)
2.What does being a member of a trade union mean?
(to pay a subscription; to pay a sum of money regularly to the particular union; to be referred to as union dues; to look after union's affairs; a shop steward; to be elected by the workers on the shop floor)
3.What are the responsibilities of a shop steward?
(to be at the day-to-day level of representation between a company and a union; to represent the workers in a particular shop, or department; to be recognised by the management; to serve as a channel of communication both ways; to be allowed to collect union dues on the premises; to hold meetings in the factory or office block; to do something with the permission of the management)
4.In what way do the trade unions use their funds?
(to obtain the best possible working conditions for the members; to organise medical schemes; insurance and legal aid; to use (part of their) funds; the money collected from the members; to pay a weekly sum of money to the members; to be out on official strike)
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5. What is called an official strike?
(to be recognised by the union; strike pay; to be compared with the workers' normal wages; to draw a pay; a “wild cat” strike)
6.Do management and unions always cooperate?
(the relationship between management and unions; to be ambitious; to get personal power; to have a grievance; to make somebody angry or annoyed; to create trouble in the works; to help put pressure on the management; in connection with something; a claim for a general wage increase; to be underpaid; to be reluctant; to increase wages; to be forced to do something; to introduce a profit-sharing scheme; to share directly in the results of harder work or better organization)
7.What difficulties and problems do good employee-management relations present?
(to be prepared to take a cut in wages; to have a bad year; to solve problems; to have good relations with the employees; to be a comparatively small 'family' firm)
8.In what way do the management regulate the going-on activities?
(to clock in; to punch a mark on the worker's time card; to correspond with something; to cheat the system; to be a very serious offence; to consult somebody about something; an operative; to ignore the rules)
9.What does the work of a Personnel Manager entail?
(the chief responsibilities; to employ and dismiss staff; to look after somebody / something; to improve the employees' welfare and conditions of work)
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