Lesson 1
Ex. 2. Use the verbs in the Passive.
1.A lot of new models (to launch) to the market every year.
2.New products (to advertise) in specialized journals.
3.Business problems (to discuss) on the phone or at the talks.
4.Quantity discounts (to give) in case of big orders.
5.Payment sometimes (to make) by a L/C.
6.Goods often (to deliver) on CIF terms.
7.If a company is heavy with orders, part deliveries (to offer) to the Buyers.
8.Contracts (to sign) by Managing Directors of companies.
9.Repeat orders (to place) if the Buyers are satisfied with previous transactions.
Ex. 3* Say what Is done at each place.
Example: At th e P a ss p o rt C o n tro l p a s s p o rts a re s h o w n by p assen g ers a n d a re c h e c k e d by im m ig ra tio n o fficers.
•at Macdonald’s restaurant,
•at the Customs,
•at a theatre booking office,
•at a railway booking office,
•at a big supermarket,
•at the reception of a big hotel,
•at the Tourist Agency,
•at a production plant,
•in an office of a business company.
Ex. 4. Use the correct forms of the verbs in the sentences.
1.The first Coca-Cola factory (to open) in Texas in 1895. Coca-Cola (to make) still there.
2.Very soon our voices (to use) to give instructions to computers.
3.Last month the new model (to test) at the plant and then (to offer) for sale.
4.Disneyland, the greatest tourist attraction in the USA, (to visit) by thousands of tourists.
5.The largest houses in the USA (to build) in the thirties of the last century.
6.20 million bottles of whisky (to produce) in Scotland last summer.
7.Soon such communications as e-mail, cable TV and Internet (to use) by the whole population of our planet.
8.The first hamburgers (to make and sell) more than 100 hundred years ago.
