Section b Text a travelling on business

Boris Petrov is an engineer of a Russian foreign-trade organization. He often goes on business to different European, Asian and African countries. His organization does business with lots of foreign firms.

Last month he was in Great Britain. He went there to sign a contract for the purchase of some equipment. The talks were very difficult. Petrov and the British businessmen discussed prices, terms of delivery, terms of shipment and other business matters. The supplier agreed to reduce the price.

During his trip Petrov visited different plants where he saw the equipment in operation. He also attended a 3-day conference on industrial investment policy and financial management and met with consultants from law firms. Boris was lucky with the weather. It was warm and it didn’t rain. He was pleased with the trip.

Vocabulary

agree v – соглашаться

attend v – присутствовать, посещать

attend a conference – присутствовать на конференции

consultant n – консультант

do business v – сотрудничать, вести дела

engineer n – инженер

financial a – финансовый

industrial a – промышленный

investment n – инвестирование, инвестиция

industrial investment policy – политика промышленных инвестиций

law n – закон

matter n – вопрос, проблема

operation n – действие

in operation – в действии

pleased a – довольный

policy n – политика

purchase n – покупка

purchase v – покупать

reduce v – сократить, снизить

sign v – подписывать

supplier n – поставщик

trip n – поездка

Exercises

I. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту.

1. What does Mr. Petrov do?

2. Does he travel much?

3. Where did he go last month?

4. Why did he go there?

5. What did he discuss at the talks?

6. What did he see at the plants that he visited?

7. What conference did he visit?

8. Who did he meet at the conference?

9. What was the weather like in Britain?

10. Did Mr. Petrov like the trip?

II. Согласитесь с данными утверждениями или опровергните их.

1. Mr. Petrov works for a Russian-British company.

2. Mr. Petrov’s company has business partners in different countries.

3. Last month he had very difficult talks with British partners.

4. They had talks in Moscow.

5. During the talks they discussed prices and terms of shipment.

6. When Mr. Petrov visited the manufacturers, he saw their equipment in operation.

7. During his trip Mr. Petrov attended a 2-day conference.

8. At the conference they discussed investment policy.

9. During his visit Mr. Petrov met law consultants.

10. Mr. Petrov liked his trip.

III. Составьте словосочетания, используя слова из двух столбцов.

business financial investment law purchase to attend to discuss to reduce to sign

a conference a contract firm management matters of equipment policy terms of delivery the price