- •Aнглийский язык для студентов специальностей «Финансы и кредит», «буАиА»
- •Preface
- •Contents
- •Unit I economy and economics Warming up
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Verbs and word-combinations with verbs:
- •Word Study
- •Text I Economy. Types of Economic Systems.
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Text II What Is Economics?
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Post-reading Activities
- •Discussion
- •Unit II the belarusian economy Warming up
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Word Study
- •Verb----------noun
- •Text The Belarusian Economy
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Post-reading Exercises
- •Discussion
- •Unit III Money
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Verbs and verb phrases
- •Word Study
- •Money Makes the World Go Round
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Post-reading Exercises
- •Unit IV banking
- •Word Study
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Post-reading Exercises
- •Opening an Account
- •Withdrawing Money From the Account
- •Changing Foreign Currency
- •Discussion
- •Unit V finance and credit Warming up
- •Topical Vocabulary
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Text 2
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Text 3 careers in finance
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Post-reading Exercises
- •Discussion
- •Curriculum
- •Содержание учебного материала по специальности «финансы и кредит»
- •Self-study Term I
- •Variant I the united kingdom economy
- •Variant II the american economy
- •Text work
- •To do away … … competition to place regulations … economic practices
- •To be based … a free enterprise system to be involved … the construction
- •Ex. 3 Give the English equivalents to the following words and phrases.
- •Term II
- •Variant I
- •2. Translate the following words and expressions:
- •3. Match the words in Column a with their definitions in Column b.
- •4. Match the words in Column a with the words in Column b to make up possible combinations.
- •5. Choose the words with similar meaning from the two groups and arrange them in pair.
- •6. Choose the word that best completes the sentence and insert it in the correct form:
- •7. Insert prepositions where necessary:
- •Variant II
- •2. Translate the following words and expressions:
- •3. Match the words in Column a with their definitions in Column b.
- •4. Match the words in Column a with the words in Column b to make up possible combinations.
- •5. Choose the words with similar meaning from the two groups and arrange them in pair
- •6. Choose the word that best completes the sentence and insert it in the correct form:
- •7. Insert prepositions where necessary:
- •Variant III
- •2. Translate the following words and expressions:
- •3. Match the words in Column a with their definitions in Column b.
- •4. Match the words in Column a with the words in Column b to make up possible combinations.
- •5. Choose the words with similar meaning from the two groups and arrange them in pair
- •6. Choose the word that best completes the sentence and insert it in the correct form:
- •7. Insert prepositions where necessary:
- •Selling on Credit
- •Indebtedness, down payment, currency, deposit, purchases, charge, statement, certified copy, price, to finance
- •Text 2 Gross Domestic Product
- •Text 3 Unemployment
- •Inflation
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Text-based Exercises
- •In the lines 1 - 5 , Robyn see examples of all three. What are they?
- •3. Can you think of three important activities to add to each list (not necessarily in relation to the kettle)?
- •4. Which sector do you intend to work in or do you already work in?
- •International Economic Relations
- •Unit III Text 1
- •English Banknotes and Coins
- •American Money
- •Counterfeiting
- •Glimpses of History of Money
- •Unit IV Text 1 Types of loans made by banks
- •International Banking
- •Text 3 The Regulation of International Banking
- •Text 4 What is a Central Bank?
- •Text 5 The Federal Reserve System
- •Unit V Text 1 Credit Cards and their Holders
- •Text 2 Credit Union
- •Text-based Exercises
- •Bibliography
Text-based Exercises
Ex. 1 Find in the text all the word-combinations with the word “economics” and translate them into Russian.
e.g. modern day economics
a common definition of economics
approaches to economics, etc.
Ex. 2 Find in the text all the word-combinations with the words “economy” and “economic” and translate them into Russian.
e.g. a free market economy
economic thinkers
economic forces
Ex. 3 Read the text once again and list the issues it deals with.
e.g. 1) The history of economics.
2) The definition of economics.
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Ex. 4 Confirm the following statements by the information from the text.
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The word “economics” is not of English origin.
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Economics as a separate area of study is connected with the book “The Wealth of Nations”.
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Adam Smith is considered to be the founder of modern day economics.
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We can name a number of scientists who became interested in economics as a science.
Ex. 5 Find four definitions of economics given in the text and outline the main problems this science is interested in.
Ex. 6 Restore the word-order in the questions that follow and answer them. Subjects of the sentences are underlined.
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There are three or four approaches to economics?
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What microeconomics does focus on?
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What economic behaviour studied by microeconomics is?
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Is the distribution of products and income also analyzed by microeconomics, isn’t it?
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How companies, firms and individuals are considered in this field of economics?
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What the central components of microeconomics are?
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What does refer to how individuals or households form their demands?
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What supply does refer to?
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Market equilibrium refers to how markets or governments enable these supplies and demands to interact?
Ex. 7 Object to the following statements using the information from the text. Make use of the following clichés:
I am not sure that…
It’s not quite so. I believe that…
I am afraid I can’t agree that…
It’s wrong to think that…
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The term “macroeconomics” was first used at the end of the 20th century.
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The economic growth required the study of macroeconomic questions.
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Macroeconomics was developed by a group of German scientists.
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This branch of economics examines the behaviour of separate units in the economy.
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Macroeconomics is concerned with the study of the whole economies or systems but excluding such aspects as government income and expenditure, fiscal policy, investment, etc.
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The problems of inflation and unemployment are not very interesting for specialists of macroeconomics.
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Macroeconomics is concerned with the factors that determine only the size of GNP.
Ex.8 Read the following sentences. Make up questions to which these sentences can be answers.
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The third main field of economics is development economics.
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Development economics studies the factors of economic growth.
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There are also several specialized areas of study.
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Among them are monetary economics, international economics, labour economics, etc.
Ex. 9 Reread the text, define the main ideas of it, make up a plan and render the text in English.