Exercise 136

Read nad translate.

Business is in a “technology revolution” these days. The Internet is changing the way we do business, and everyone is talking about technology companies such as Microsoft and Amazon.com. But in the future, many ordinary, “nontech” companies and their customers will be the big winners in the technology revolution.

For example, instead of selling products through stores or agents, producers can sell directly to customers on the Internet. This will save producers a lot of money because they will need fewer stores and agents to sell their products.

But producers will also have more competition because customers can see and buy products from around the world on the Internet. So, fast delivery and high–quality products and services will be the keys to profitable business.

This is just the beginning of the technology revolution in business. Companies that can change and move quickly are going to be very successful in the Internet economy.

Exercise 137

Make up 5 questions to the text above.

Lesson 10 Урок 10

In the Building в здании

Active vocabulary

Nouns

1. building – здание

2. floor – этаж

3. ground floor – первый (земляной) этаж

4. store room – склад

5. stationery store – канцелярский склад

6. switchboard – коммутатор

7. entrance – вход

8. layout – план

9. direction – направление

Adverbs

10. same – такой же

11. opposite – напротив

Verbs

12. to come out of – выйти из

13. to turn – повернуть

14. to take the corridor on – по коридору на..

Grammar notes

Порядковые числительные образуются от соответствующих количественных числительных посредством суфикса –th и перед порядковым числительным ставится определенный артикль. Только первые три цифры меняют полностью корень.

1st the first 10th the tenth

2nd the second 11th the eleventh

3rd the third 12th the twelfth

4th the fourth 13th the thirteenth

5th the fifth 20th the twentieth

6th the sixth 31st the thirty first

7th the seventh 42nd the forty second

8th the eighth 53rd the fifty third

9th the ninth 64th the sixty fourth

100th a hundredth

1 000 a thousadth

Exercise 138

Write the abbriviations for these numbers, like this:

1. His office is on the eighth floor. 8th

2. Thank you for your letter of July twenty–first. ....................

3. Room 405 is the second door on the left. .........................

4. Her holiday is the fourth week of August. .......................

5. This is the sixth letter from BOS this week. ........................

6. The file is in the third drawer down. ............................

7. The meeting is on fifth July. ...............................

8. That is the twentieth mistake today. ...............................

Exercise 139  (We Mean Business ex 35, p 20)

Listen to the tape. There are ten sentences. Write down the ordinal number you hear in each sentence, like this: 1 – 7th – seventh

Exercise 140  (Global Links 1, ex. 4, p. 43)

Listen and write the ordinal numbers you hear.

Exercise 141  (Global Links 1, ex. 5, p. 43)

Listen. You will hear ordinal numbers in sentences. Write the numbers.