III вариант

1. Определите по грамматическим признакам, какой частью речи являются слова, оформленные окончанием –s и какую функцию это окончание выполняет, т. е. служит ли оно:

а) показателем 3 л. ед. ч. глагола в настоящем простом времени;

б) признаком множественного числа существительного;

в) показателем притяжательного падежа имени существительного.

Предложения переведите.

1. It is very important to know a firm’s assets.

2. President gets a bank statement every month.

3. He collected all the invoices to send them to customers.

4. They will discuss training the Customer’s specialists under the contract.

5. After the talks he takes the guests to shops.

6. The market is the process by which individuals’ decisions about consumption of goods, firms decisions about what and how to produce, the workers decisions about how much and for whom to work are reconciled by prices.

7. The central economic problem is to reconcile the conflict between people’s unlimited demands with society’s ability to produce goods and services.

2. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на степени сравнения прилагательных и наречий:

1. If your Liabilities are greater than your assets you may go bankrupt.

2. He was the youngest and least experienced economist in the firm.

3. The more we read, the better we understand the subject.

4. Who is the best student in the group will be shown at examinations.

5. We must hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

3. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на неопределенные и отрицательные местоимения:

1. The country has its own oil and doesn’t need to import any.

2. No one knows what the long-term effect of this phenomenon will be.

3. Nobody knew anything about that matter.

4. Anyone can do it.

4. Определите в каждом предложении видо-временную форму и залог гла­гола-сказуемого. Переведите предложения.

1. This product is selling well.

2. By the way, many firms have already bought this model and are satisfied

with it.

3. By the time you came I had already translated a big contract.

4. They told us that they were ready to discuss the Draft Contract.

5. I’ll be in your city next week and we’ll be able to start on the project.

6. The contract was signed by the president of the company.

7. Are you translating a text?

5. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на значение модальных глаголов и их заместителей:

1. You can make a lot of money by investing in this new branch of industry.

2. All organizations, whether small or large, have to be managed.

3. It may be possible to persuade a person with capital to become a partner in the business. This means that the capital would be interest – free and unlike a loan, would not have to be repaid.

4. I’ll be able to translate the Contract into English today.

5. The matter is urgent. You must do it right away.

6. We are to finish with the experiments in two months at the most.

7. Making a decision, the economist should rely on all the information that he can find.

6. Переведите текст:

Mixed Economy

There are three types of management in economies. An economy may be almost totally planned, as it was in the Soviet Union. An economy may be almost totally unplanned, as it is in the USA, оr an economy may be a combination of planning and freedom of operation. Examples of the latter are Japan and South Korea.

In a planned economy the government decides what goods are to be pro­duced and how they are to be marketed. Governments set all the priorities, and the producers are to follow the directions given to them.

In a partially planned economy such as Japan's, the government often encourages industry and helps it with subsidies. Government also makes in­vestments and regulates trade.

The United States is an example of an unplanned economy. But it has a lot of government intervention in economic activity. As the economy of the United States grew, and as government and its importance increased, the gov­ernment policy at every level acquired greater importance for the economy.

But the economy of the United States may be called unplanned because the government does not regulate what will be produced and how it will be marketed. These decisions are left to the producers. Even the great amount of government regulation that has emerged since the Great Depression has not turned the economy of the United States into a planned economy.

The name of the American economic system is capitalism. Another name for it is the free market economy.

Образец разговорной темы.

MY FAMILY

Our family is not very large. I have a father, a brother and a sister. We all live together in a new flat in one of the industrial centres of Minsk.

My father Igor Ivanovich is 45 years old. He is a tall and well-built man with short black hair and grey eyes. He works at a big automobile plant as an engineer. He likes his work and spends most of his time there. By character my father is a quiet man, while my mother is energetic and talkative. Her name is Olga Petrovna. She is a teacher of music and plays the piano well. My mother always has a lot of work to do about the house and at school. She is a busy woman and we all help her.

My sister's name is Aila. Like her mother Alia has blue eyes and lovely, fair hair. She is a very good-looking girl. Alia is three years younger than me. She is a pupil of the 9th form. She does well at school and gets only good and excellent marks. Literature is her favourite subject and she wants to become a teacher, the same as me.

My name is Tanya. Last year I left school and tried to enter the University. But I failed in my exams. For a year I worked at school as a secretary and attended preparatory courses. Now I'm again an applicant for entry to the philological faculty of the University. I hope to be lucky this time.

Our family is very friendly. We like to spend time together. In the evenings we watch TV, read books and newspapers, listen to music or just talk about the events of the day. All of us like to spend our week-ends out of town. We often go to the village where our grandparents live. They are old-age pensioners now but prefer to live in the country.

Вопросы для беседы:

What do you usually say about yourself when you introduce yourself to other people or when you apply for a job / to the institute, etc. (name, surname, date of birth, citizenship, etc.)? What would you write in your resume about education, special interests, hobbies, work experience to impress your prospective employer? Are you proud of your family? How do you and your family spend your free time? Have you got much free time? What are your hobbies? Why are they important to you? Are your hobbies connected with your future profession? Which of the subjects that you studied at school are really important for your adult life?