- •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 17 |
The New Board of Directors |
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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 upset the balance of power
to postpone the possibility (of a takeover)
to be over-weighed with somebody / something to be tempted away by somebody
budgetary control
to introduce monthly accounting by cost centres to draw up quarterly accounts
to sound somebody out
to have everything one’s own way to balance somebody’s power
to put something forward the Rules of Association the qualification holding
to put somebody in the picture to offer somebody a directorship to be a counter to somebody
to draft (suitable) minutes about proposals
to table recommendations (on budgetary control) to give an outline of something
to do the accounts to reduce personnel
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PRE-LISTENING
Task I
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. What changes occurred in the structure of the capital of Harper & Grant Ltd. after Hector Grant postponed the possibility of a takeover?
(to buy two hundred and fifty more shares in the company; the remaining two hundred and fifty shares; the rather dynamic owner of a neighbouring mattress factory; to own a large proportion of the shares; be asked to join the Board)
2. In what way did the death of the Chairman, Ambrose Harper, upset the balance of power on the Board of Directors of Harper & Grant Ltd.?
(to become the next Chairman; the present members of the Board; Chairman and Managing Director; to be invited by the Board to become a director; to attend Board meetings; to leave somebody to act for somebody; the Company Secretary)
3. Why does Peter think it is high time John Martin was made a director?
(to have a very successful year; to increase sales by almost forty per cent in the two years; to join the firm; to be an added support for himself; to be overweighed with somebody; to have an up-to-date outlook on business; to be tempted away by somebody; to make it worth somebody’s while to stay)
4. What changes in financial control does William Buckhurst initiate?
(to discuss budgetary control; to attended a course on something; |
to introduce |
monthly accounting by cost centres; to have information about |
the company's |
trading position more accurately and more often than at present) |
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5. How does William Buckhurst explain the necessity of monthly accounts?
(to be the forward plan; to spend, to make and to sell during a specific period; a record of what has actually been bought, sold and spent; to be drawn up every three months in a financial year; to discover the profits and losses more often to keep a firmer control; modern management)
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Task2
Give the English equivalents for the following word combinations:
•подвергаться соблазну уйти в другую компанию
•занести предложения в протокол
•краткое изложение чего-либо
•отвести угрозу захвата руководства компанией кем-либо
•быть противовесом кому-либо
•сократить штаты
•входной барьер – условия членства в акционерной компании
•контроль за выполнением бюджета
•проводить анализ состояния бухгалтерских счетов
•делать все по-своему
•предложить кому-либо место директора
•Правила членства в компании
•нарушить равновесие сил
•ввести кого-либо в состав действующих лиц
•распросить («прощупать») коголибо
•уравновесть чье-либо влияние
•внести (положить на стол) предложения
•быть перегруженным чем-либо
•ввести ежемесячную отчетность по учетно-калькуляционным подразделениям
•составлять ежеквартальные отчеты
LISTENING Exercise 1
You are going to hear a talk between Peter Wiles and John Martin. 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.John Martin didn’t deny that Harper's death had caused a big change in the control of Harper & Grant Ltd.
2.Hector Grant is a strong personality and Harper couldn't have everything his own way while he was Chairman; Peter wanted to balance H.G.’s power a bit by having John on the Board.
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