- •Economic activities
- •1. Practice saying the following words. Pay attention on the stress.
- •2. Study the diagram and complete the following sentences.
- •3. The table shows how words are formed around the verb produce. List all the words you can make from the table and use them in suitable blanks in the sentences.
- •4. Seven words can be formed from the basic word nation. This table shows how to do it. Put each word in its suitable place in the sentences.
- •5. Change these sentences by changing certain adjectives into verbs.
- •6. Combine some of the words in these sentences in order to make new compound nouns.
- •7. Read and translate the text.
- •8. Answer the questions about passages I and II.
- •9. Say if these statements are true or false, and why.
- •10. Provide missing words from passage I.
- •11. Answer the questions about passages III and IV.
- •12. Say if these statements are true or false, and why.
- •13. Find single words in passage III for which these words can be substituted.
- •14. Find words in passage IV for which these words could be substituted.
- •15. Answer the questions about passage V.
- •16. Say if these statements are true or false, and why.
- •17. Provide missing words.
- •18. Arrange the following sentences in their proper order.
- •19. Put prepositions in the blanks of these sentences.
- •20. Decide which suffix is necessary to change these words from activities etc. To the people who engage in them.
- •21. Make these adjectives negative by adding the prefix un– and complete with them the following sentences.
- •22. Make these adjectives negative by adding the prefix in– and complete with them the following sentences.
- •23. Make these words negative by adding prefix in– and altering it to suit the consonant which follows (il–; im–; ir–) .
- •24. Make each word below negative by adding a suitable prefix: non– ; un– ; or in– (or il– ; im– ; ir– as required).
- •25. Study the following and write a composition (about 300 words).
- •26. Write about 400 words and make presentations on the topics:
8. Answer the questions about passages I and II.
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9. Say if these statements are true or false, and why.
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1. Most people produce either goods or services. 2. Services are either agricultural or manufactured. 3. Education and medicine are provided by schools and hospitals. 4. Cars and paper are agricultural goods. 5. Paper is a non-agricultural commodity. 6. The work which people do is called an economic system. 7. A city has its own economic system. 8. Economic activity is the sum-total of what people do and want. 9. The work people undertake provides them with money, or with what they need.
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14. Radios, books and toys are basic commodities. 10. Most people do not want to buy non-essential commodities and services. 11. Economics is a scientific study. 12. Economists try to understand only part of the economic system. 13. If we could satisfy our basic needs without working, we would still work. 15. The range of human wants is very complex. 16. Clothes and shelter are non-essential human needs. 17. Economic studies are essentially non-scientific. 18. Economists study the general life of our communities.
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10. Provide missing words from passage I.
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Transport systems like railways, buses and aeroplanes provide the public with important ………… .
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They told him to look at the ………. and then do the exercises.
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There is usually a lot of ……….. at any railway station or airport that handles a lot of traffic.
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He decided to …………. the work in order to make some money.
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It was ………… for him to go to the city as soon as possible.
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They had ………. money to buy most of the things they needed.
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It was a ………….matter and he did not wish to tell anyone about it.