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V. Answer the following questions.

  1. What is production?

  2. What are the aspects of production process?

3. How many stages are there in the production process of making products?

4. What is the difference between semi-finished and finished goods?

  1. What categories can all the goods be grouped into?

  2. What is a good?

  3. What is a service?

  4. What are the vehicles that deliver services to people?

  5. What types of services do you know?

10. What is the difference between a good and a service?

VI. Give English equivalents for the following Ukrainian words and word-

combinations.

виробництво, процес перетворення, створювати товари та по­слуги, зберігання товару, відвантаження, темпи випуску продукції за період часу, товари, придатні для продажу, сировина, переробна промисловість, готовий продукт, напівфабрикати, надавати по­слуги, задовольняти особисті потреби, намір покупця, розрізняти матеріальні та нематеріальні предмети, засіб надання послуги, споживчі послуги, комерційні послуги.

VII. Match the term from the left-hand column with its definition from

the right-hand column.

  1. 1. goods

a. the act of delivering goods

2. services

b. goods which are complete in themselves

3. vehicle for

c. economic products; physical objects doing smth

4. finished goods

d. goods used in the maintenance of business

5. raw materials

e. economic products; a work is performed for someone

6. production

f. putting things away and keeping them until you need them

7. public services

g. the act or process of bringing something into existence

8. shipping

h. things that are provided for the public to use

9. storing

i. something that you see in order to achieve smth or as a way of spreading your ideas, expressing your opinion

10. industrial goods

j. natural state of materials which have not yet been prepared for use

VIII. What kind of industry do you work in?

  1. You are a carpenter.

  2. You make leather.

  3. You make jewellery.

  4. Your company produces computers.

  1. In your spare time you spin wool and sell it to companies which make exclusive knitwear.

  1. You work on an oil rig in the North Sea.

  2. You are a miner of manganese ore.

  3. You are a cotton weaver.

IX. A) What kind of service do you render?

  1. You are a teacher.

  2. You are a plumber.

  3. You work for a shipping company.

  4. You are an insurance broker.

  5. You are a solicitor.

  6. You are an architect.

  7. You work in a warehouse.

  8. You own a wholesale company which sells footwear.

  9. You are a customer officer.

10. You are a mechanic.

b) Which type of service do you think is the most important? If possible, rank them in descending order of importance (most important to least important) and explain why.

X. Choose one or more of the following products and describe (in as much

details as possible) the process it undergoes from the time the natural

resources are extracted to the time it reaches the consumer.

1. Bread

  1. Paper

  2. Leather shoes

  3. Woolen jackets

  4. Wooden tables

  5. Cooper pipes

Don't forget about the three stages of industry and the chain of distribution (manufacturer — wholesaler — retailer — consumer).

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