- •Донецький національний університет економіки і торгівлі імені Михайла Туган-Барановського
- •Economics Today
- •Content
- •Texts for Individual Reading
- •Передмова
- •Unit 1. What does economics study?
- •Vocabulary.
- •What does economics study?
- •Money price human wants scarcity
- •What does economics study?
- •Pronouns
- •Unit 2. Different Economic systems.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Different economic systems
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Unit 3. Economics as a social science.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Try to explain the above mentioned economic notions as you understand them, by your own words.
- •Economics as a social science.
- •Economics as a social science
- •Outstanding economists
- •Unit 4. Economics as a policy.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Economics as policy.
- •Economics and policy
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Unit 5. Main economic concepts.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Main economic concepts.
- •Outstanding economists.
- •2. Define:
- •Unit 6. Market, Supply and Demand.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Market, supply and demand
- •What money can’t buy
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Unit 7. Prices and their formation.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Price and its formation.
- •Past Tenses
- •When prices draw us.
- •Outstanding Economists.
- •2. Value:
- •Unit 8. Taxes and Taxation.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Taxes and taxation
- •Past Tenses Past Perfect Simple
- •Past Perfect Continuous
- •Will Germany Start Tax Reform?
- •Crackdown on “alcohol disorder zones”
- •Outstanding economists.
- •Sources of government revenue
- •Public spending
- •Unit 9. Business organization.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Forms of business ownership in the u.S.A.
- •The Formal Organization.
- •Up and Down of People Express
- •Burr’s Business
- •3. Necessity:
- •Unit 10.
- •Forms of business small business
- •I. Can you stick with it?
- •How to make business plan.
- •The Passive Voice
- •Unit 11. Franchising.
- •Vocabulary.
- •Franchising.
- •Evaluate your franchise opportunities.
- •Mc’Donald’s : burger and fries a la français.
- •Invest:
- •5. Tax:
- •Unit 12.
- •International Trade.
- •International trade.
- •How to avoid business blunders abroad.
- •Vocabulary to Text 2.
- •Advertising.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Economic theories.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Main economic concepts.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Marketing.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Answer the questions:
- •Types of economic systems.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 2. Classical Theories.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 3. The Meaning of Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •What is you understanding of management?
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 5. Management Activities.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 6. Classical Theories.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 7. Fayol's Principles of Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 8. F.W.Taylor and Scientific Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 9. The Principles of Scientific Management.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 10. Scientific Management after Taylor.
- •Vocabulary:
- •Practical Tasks:
- •Text 1. Comments on the Scientific Management School.
- •Text 2. L.F.Urwick.
- •Text 3. E.F.L.Brech.
- •Text 4. Max Weber and the Idea of Bureaucracy.
- •Text 5. Bureaucracy.
- •Text 6. Bureaucracy after Weber.
- •Questions for Discussions to texts 1-6.
- •Nobel prize winners.
- •1975: Nobel Prizes.
- •Money in our everyday life quotations. Attitudes to money.
- •Giving away money.
- •Money and everyday life.
- •Money and the family.
- •Money at work.
- •Money madness.
- •Possessions.
- •The economic model.
- •The psychology of money.
- •The very rich.
- •Young people, socialisation and money.
- •Poetry.
- •I have some fe a rainy day underneath me bed,
- •Is dis culture yours, cause it is not mine
- •It could do good but it does more bad
- •The coin speaks.
- •The hardship of accounting.
- •The millionaire.
- •Keys unit 1.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 2.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 3.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 4.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 5.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 6.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 7.
- •Train and check yourself
- •Unit 8.
- •Unit 9.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Fill in the chart
- •Unit 10.
- •Unit 11.
- •Comprehension check.
- •Unit 12.
- •Keys to the texts for individual reading
- •Economics Today
Outstanding economists.
Insert the right word: article, pronoun, numeral, verb.
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1. Arthur Lewis … … first black person to receive … Nobel Prize in … category other than peace. 2. He received … in 1979. 3. … research … about economic problems in developing countries. 4. He … the … to do such research. 5. He … born in 1915 in West Indies and died in 1991 in Barbados. 6. He ... … position of … professor in London School of Economics, in the University of Manchester, in Princeton University where he … … economic adviser at … same time. 7. During … life … wrote 11 books and eighty monographs. 8. … British government knighted … Sir Arthur William Lewis in 1963. |
IV. Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about the Nobel Prize winner sir Arthur Williams. Use information from exercise III.
V. Choose the best variant.
1. What section of this/that/the population is a/an/the most vulnerable to property? 2. We/they/you/is/was/are unemployed, a/the low paid, a/an/the disabled, one parent families and a/the/an elderly retired. 3. Clearly, they/this/these groups are vulnerable because they/we/you have/has/was low incomes and is/have/are largely dependent on benefit payments from zero article/a/the state. 4. Furthermore, various social aspects of government policy have/will be/are aimed at increasing the number of people in poverty. 5. By the/a/an way, the age structure is changing quickly and they/this/it shows a/an/the increasing proportion of the population aged not only 65, but 85 too. 6. Government policy affects the rates of benefits. 7. It/this/she affects the standard of living of vulnerable people, which/they/who are in a/the/zero article very low paid jobs. 8. The/an/a increase in unemployment is/have/has also consequences of government economic policy.
VI. Make up sentences with the following adjectives:
desirable, undesirable, positive, negative, individual, economic, political, rich, poor, vulnerable.
Don’t forget to use structures at page 47!
VII. Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English.
Економісти допомагають уряду розробляти економічну політику.
Різні наукові школи частo демонструють різні точки зору на те, як працює економіка.
У результаті економіка часто буває досить суперечливою.
Щоб визначити роль економістів у політиці, необхідно побачити різницю між нормативною і позитивною економікою.
Позитивна економіка вивчає те, що є.
Нормативна економіка передає суб’єктивні уявлення про те, що має бути.
Безробітні, непрацездатні, особи похилого віку, неповні сім’ї отримують трансфертні платежі від держави.
Трансфертні платежі, з одного боку, благо, з іншого – лихо. Багато людей сподіваються на блага, гроші, проте не бажають і не вміють заробляти. Вони покладаються на державу.
Можна зауважити, що урядова політика провокує зубожіння.
Люди часто помиляються в оцінці фактів.
VIII. Think over some sentences from exercise above. Do you agree with all of them? What would you object? What’s your opinion about our government economic policy?
IX. Role play.
Divide the class into two groups. One group adheres to positive statements, the other – to normative statements. The problem for the discussion – transfer payments in the state. Are they necessary? Should they be cut or increased? Is it evil or benefit?