- •Direct And Indirect Speech …………………………………… 48
- •3. Few explanations to the text
- •8. Examine thoroughly the table below and make the plural form of the following words. Can you see where the trick is?
- •8.1. Mind different ways of English words plurality formation
- •Word order / questions
- •Self-Study
- •13. Cumulative review exercises (Essential grammar appendix p.P. 219 – 221, 223-225)
- •13.1. Nouns. Revise all the material concerning nouns.
- •1. Phonetic drill.
- •3. Speak about the differences in the vocabulary of each of the girls.
- •6. Mind also the differences between American and British English words spelling and pronunciation. Spelling. Pronunciation.
- •7. Word formation (Different ways to construct the words or new notions)
- •11. Translate from Russian into English
- •12. Form Participle II of the following verbs and translate them
- •13. Translate the following word combinations
- •14. Translate into English
- •15. State the function of participle I. Translate the sentences
- •Self-Study
- •16. Translate from English into Russian in a written form
- •1. Phonetic drill.
- •3. Few explanations to the text
- •Continuous tenses in active voice
- •15.2. What subjects, to your mind, will help you to become a good practitioner? Self-Study
- •16. Translate the sentences
- •17. Read the supplementary text on pages 56-57. Can you tell anything more about other people’s traditions?
- •1. Phonetic drill.
- •1.1. Read the words paying attention to the pronunciation of the italisized
- •1.2. Read the words paying attention to different pronunciation of letter a
- •2. Read the text a few components of customer value today
- •3. Few explanations to the text
- •8. Translate the following sentences into Russian
- •9. Speaking practice. Discuss the topic “My Native Town (City)” with your partner using such words as
- •Self-Study
- •10. Translate the following sentences into Russian
- •11. Home reading. Read the supplementary text on pages 58-60 and answer the questions
- •Supplementary task for advanced groups
- •18. Think of a business you would like to have as your own. Tell a few
- •19. Do you agree with the definitions of some key notions in your profession
- •Part II _________________________________________________________Lesson 5
- •1. Read the text
- •A few words about operating a business
- •2. Few explanations to the text
- •3. Key vocabulary / words and expressions
- •4. General understanding. Answer the questions to the text
- •5. Test your own attention.
- •5.1 Find English equivalents in the text
- •5.2 Find in the text synonyms for the following words and phrases
- •6. Give Russian equivalents to the following international words without using a dictionary. Be attentive when reading the transcription
- •7. Find in the text the sentences with the words given above and translate them into Russian
- •8. Translate the sentence. What meaning is expressed by the word right?
- •9. Word formation (Different ways to construct words)
- •9.2 Suffixes
- •13. Use the verbs in brackets in Past Perfect or past indefinite
- •14. Translate the following sentences and state the tense-form of the predicate
- •15.Translate the following sentences
- •16. Translate the following sentences and explain the use of tenses
- •Self-Study
- •17. Cumulative review exercises (Essential Grammar Appendix p.P.)
- •1. Read the text the reasons for developing a business plan
- •2. Few explanations to the text
- •3. Key vocabulary / words and expressions
- •4. Pick international words out of the text. Give their corresponding Russian meanings without a dictionary. Start compiling your own glossary of international words
- •5. Test your own attention. Find English equivalents in the text
- •6. Find in the text synonyms for the following words
- •7. Prepositional phrasal verbs
- •8. Word formation (Different ways to construct the words or new notions)
- •Essential grammar (Essential Grammar Appendix p.P. )
- •12. Replace the modal verbs with their equivalents and translate the
- •13. Speaking practice.
- •13.1 Discuss the topic with your partner using the vocabulary of the
- •13.2 Discuss the topic “my country” with your partner using such
- •13.3 What should be done, to your mind, to make the economical situation
- •In our country much better? Self-Study
- •14. Translate the following sentences into Russian
- •14. Home reading
- •1. Read the text a roadmap to success
- •2. Explanations to the text
- •3. Key vocabulary / expressions
- •4. Give Russian equivalents to the following words without using a dictionary. Be attentive when reading the transcription
- •5. Put the correct stress on the following words (Essential Phonetics Appendix p.P. 202-203)
- •6. General Understanding. Answer the questions to the text
- •7. Test your own attention. Find English equivalents in the text
- •8. Prepositional phrasal verbs
- •13.1. Read the sentences. Can you tell where these places are situated?
- •13.2. A foreign country. Watch video. Tell about the uk.
- •Self-Study
- •13. Translate the sentences
- •14. Compile as many words as you can with the letters of the word consideration
- •1. Read the text the main factors to secuRing business success
- •2. Explanations to the text
- •3. Key vocabulary / words and expressions
- •4. Find, read and translate the sentences with the new words and word combinations
- •5. Have you read the text attentively? Give equivalent English phrases to the following Russian ones
- •6. General understanding. Answer the questions to the text
- •7. Word formation (Different ways to construct the words or new notions)
- •7.1 Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms
- •7.2 Translate the following groups of words
- •8. Prepositional phrasal verbs
- •9. Choose and use
- •9.1 Insert the necessary verb
- •Essential grammar
- •10. Translate the following sentences
- •Direct and indirect speech
- •11. Change direct speech into indirect
- •12. Change indirect speech into direct
- •Self-Study
- •13. Translate the sentences
- •18. Some additional information from the practitioners.
- •18.1 Read and translate the extract
- •18.2 Analyze the function of –ing forms
- •18.3 Retell the text using indirect speech
- •19. Home reading
- •20. Business crossword. Revise your professional vocabulary down
- •Supplementary texts
- •A freshman’s experience
- •October, 25 th
- •November, 15th
- •How not to Behave Badly Abroad
- •What Do You Expect From the Business
- •The role of knowledge in business
- •Is there a Chamber of Commerce in your city?
- •Home Office: pros and cons
- •Some more factors to securing business success
- •Industry health
- •Capable management
- •Financial control
- •Consistent business focus
- •Anticipating change
- •Developing a company style
Министерство образования и науки РФ
Кубанский государственный технологический университет
Новороссийский политехнический институт
О.Н. Мусихина
Business English Practices
Профессиональный английский язык
Практикум.
Краснодар
2011
CONTENT
Practices
Lesson 1. Phonetic drill ………………………………………………………… 4
Text: The Future of English ………..………………….. …………….. 4
Exercises .………………………………………………………… 5
Essential Grammar. Revision ..…..……………………………… 6
Speaking Practice. About Myself .....….………………………... 8
Self-Study …...…………………………………………………… 9
Lesson 2. Phonetic drill ………………………………………………………10
Text: British and American English ……………………..………….. 10
Exercises …..…………………………………………………….. 11
Speaking Practice. My Student’s Day .………………………… 12
Essential Grammar. Revision
Participles: Simple Forms and Functions …………………… 13
Self-Study ..……………………………………………………… 14
Read for Fun ……………………………………………………. 14
Lesson 3. Phonetic drill ……………………………………………………….. 15
Text: Modern Examinations ..……………………………………….. 15
Exercises ..………………………………………………………. 16
Essential Grammar. Gerund: Simple Forms and Functions ..… 16
Continuous Tenses …...……………………………………... 17
Speaking Practice. My University ...…………………………… 18
Self-Study …….………………………………………………… 19
Lesson 4. Phonetic drill …………………………………………………….. 20
Text: A Few Components of Customer Value Today …………….…20
Exercises ……………………………………………………….....21
Essential Grammar. Passive Voice .………………………….… 22
Speaking Practice. My Native Town (City) …..……………….. 22
Self-Study ...…….………………………………………………. 23
Home Reading ………………………………………………….. 23
Supplementary Task For Advanced Groups ……………………. 24
Lesson 5. Phonetic drill ……………………………………………………. 25
Text: A Few Words About Operating a Business ..………………… 25
Exercises ....……………………………………………………… 27
Essential Grammar. Perfect Tenses …………………………….. 29
Self-Study ….….…………………………………………………. 31
Lesson 6. Phonetic drill ……………………………………………………... 32
Text: The Reasons for Developing a Business Plan ……..………… 32
Exercises …………………………………………………………. 33
Essential Grammar. Modal Verbs and Their Equivalents ………. . 35
Speaking Practice. My Country ...……………………………. 36
Self-Study ……………………………………………………….. 37
Home Reading ……………………………………………………. 37
Lesson 7. Phonetic drill ……………………………………………………… 38
Text: A Roadmap to Success ….……………………………………. 38
Exercises …………………………………………………………. 40
Essential Grammar. Subjunctive Mood ………………………… 41
Speaking Practice. Great Britain …....…………………………... 42
Self-Study ….….…………………………………………………. 43
Time for Fun ……………………………………………………... 43
Lesson 8. Phonetic drill ……………………………………………………… 44
Text: The Main Factors to Securing Business Success ...…………… 44
Exercises ……………………………………………………….... 46
Choose and Use ………………………….………………………. 48
Essential Grammar. Sequence of Tenses ……………………….. 48
Direct And Indirect Speech …………………………………… 48
Self-Study ……….………………………………………………... 49
Home Reading ……………………………………………………. 50
Business Crossword ……………………………………………… 51
Supplementary Texts ……………………………………………………………. 53
Practices
PART 1
________________________________________________________LESSON 1
1. Phonetic drill.
1.1 Read the words paying attention to different pronunciation of letter
combination ea
i: |
e |
ei |
ıә |
ıeı |
reason Zealand increase deal |
instead spread health ahead |
great break steak streak |
ideal realize reality weary |
create permeate delineate Oceanic |
1.2. Mind the pronunciation of the following words with the italicized letters
[u:] should, would, could, group, route, soup / but house, mouse […au…]
[u:] rule, blue, include, fluent, crude, ruble / but structure [´strktә]
[i:] receive, seize, conceit, forfeit; believe, piece, relief, thief, siege /
but friend [frend]
2. Read the text
THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH
1. Have you ever wondered how many people there are who speak English? It’s quite a number! Geographically, English is the most widespread language on earth. And it is the second only to Chinese in the number of people who speak it. It is spoken in the British Isles, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and much of Canada and South Africa. That’s about 400 million people.
2. English is also a second language of another 300 million people living in more than 60 countries. If you add to this the enormous number of people who learn to understand and speak English (like yourself), you will realize that English is indeed a “world language”.
3. In Shakespeare’s time only a few million people spoke English. All of them lived in what is now Great Britain. Through the centuries, as a result of various historical events, English spread throughout the world. Five hundred years ago they didn’t speak English in North America: the American Indians had their own languages. So did the Eskimos in Canada, the aborigines in Australia, and the Maoris in New Zealand. The English arrived and set their own colonies…
4. Nowadays, English is represented in every continent and in the three main oceans – the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific. *English is mixing with and marrying other languages1 around the world. It is probably the most insatiable borrower. Words newly coined or in vogue in one language are very often added to English as well. There are words from 120 languages in its vocabulary, including Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
5. Other languages absorb English words too, often giving them new forms and new meanings. So, many Japanese, French and Germans mix English words with their mother tongues that the resulting hybrids are called Japlish, Franglais and Denglish. In Japanese, for example, there is a verb Makudonaru, which means to eat at McDonald’s. One of the many “Englishes” spoken and written today is Euro-English. Euro-English has its origins in the political arena of the European community.
6. A century ago, some linguists predicted that one day England, America, Australia and Canada would be speaking different languages. However, *with the advent of2 records, cinema, radio, and television, the two brands of English have even began to draw back together again. Britons and Americans probably speak more alike today then they did 60 or 70 years ago. (In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, American films were dubbed in English. It’s no longer the practice today).
7. People have long been interested in having one language that could be spoken throughout the world. Such a language would help to increase cultural and economic ties and simplify communication between people. Through the years, at least 600 universal languages have been proposed, including Esperanto. About 10 million people have learned Esperanto since it’s creation in 1887, but English, according to specialists, has better chances to become a global language.
So, why not to learn it?
(From Speak Out, abridged)