Sectors of economy and selected product groups

Задание 13. Прочитайте отрывок из учебника по бизнесу и закончите предложения, выбрав одно из предложенных слов:

a) another	e) economic	i) major	l) primary	o) services
b) basic	f) fishing	j) most	m) productive	p) work
c) business	g) fully	k) per cent	n) secondary	q) workers
d) countries	h) labour

Divisions of economic activity Although the structure of each country is different, their economies can be shown to have similar sectors. When speaking of (1) _____ or economic activity, commentators normally recognize three (2) _____ 'sectors':

• primary - agriculture, fishing, mining, construction

• (3) _____ - crafts and manufacturing

• tertiary - (4) _____ including education, banking, insurance, etc.

The occupational structure The types of activities that most (5) _____ are occupied in differ, sometimes dramatically, from one country to (6) _____ and from one time to another. In (7) _____ developing countries (and in all (8) _____ before the 19th century), the vast majority of the workforce (9) _____ in the agricultural, or (10) _____ sector. Their work is almost entirely manual, and most of the country's (11) _____ power is concentrated on the (12) _____ task of feeding the population. In (13) _____ developed countries far more of their (14) _____ resources are directed towards other (15) _____ activities. In the United States and Canada, for example, only 4 and 7 per cent, respectively, of all employed persons work in agriculture, (16) _____, and mining, compared to more than 70 (17) _____ in India.

Economy of the uk

Задание 1. Прочитайте и переведите следующие интернациональные слова:

tradition, traditional, traditional industries, electricity, electrical industry, chemical industry, metallurgical industry, automobile industry, textile industry, region, regional, commercial centre, products, agriculture, zinc, tobacco, fruit

Задание 2. Составьте следующие пары слов, обращая внимание на артикль:

Model: a product – products

the product – the products

country ________ county _________ city ___________ nation _________

area __________ type __________ car __________ port __________

river __________ centre ________ factory _______ decline ________

Задание 3. Прочитайте названия стран. Объясните употребление определенного артикля.

the USA the United States of America Canada England the UK the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Scotland Wales the Republic of Ireland Russia the former USSR

Задание 4. Прочитайте следующие сочетания слов. Объясните употребление определенного артикля:

the economy the UK economy the Scottish economy the Russian economy the French economy

the European economy the world economy an economy, economy the Japanese economy the Chinese economy

Задание 5. Вспомните образование степеней сравнения прилагательных и наречий.

		Положительная	Сравнительная	Превосходная
1	Односложные прилагательные	long	longer	(the) longest
		big	bigger	(the) biggest
	Двусложные прилагательные, оканчивающиеся на –y, -er, -ow	easy	easier	(the) easiest
		clever	cleverer	(the cleverest
		narrow	narrower	(the) narrowest
2	Многосложные прилагательные	interesting	more interesting less interesting	(the) most interesting (the) least interesting
3	Исключения	good well	better	(the) best
		bad badly	worse	(the) worst
		far	farther further	(the) farthest (the) furthest
		little	less	(the) least
		much many	more	(the) most

Задание 6. Переведите следующие сочетания:

the most powerful, more developed, the biggest, less clear, more factories, the most important, the most numerous

Задание 7. Переведите предложения:

1) Great Britain imports raw materials from other coun­tries. 2) Britain's economy largely depends on imports. 3) Electronic equipment is one of the main articles of British export. 4) What raw materials does Britain import from Cana­da? 5) Why does Britain's economy depend so much on imports? 6) What goods does Britain export to other countries? 7) What are the main articles of Britain's export? 8) Great Britain is no longer the leading imperialistic power it used to be. 9) More than one-third of the population is employed in agriculture. 10) Do you happen to know how many workers are employ­ed in Britain's war industry? 11) How many people are employ­ed in farming in Great Britain?

Задание 8. Прочитайте и переведите следующий текст.