- •080109.65 - «Бухгалтерский учет, анализ и аудит»,
- •Г.А. Дубинина и.Ф. Драчинская
- •Учебные задания по английскому языку
- •Лингафонному курсу «Язык бизнеса»
- •080105.65 - «Финансы и кредит»,
- •Who’s Who in the Company
- •Ian Hampden, Ian - Personnel Manager Green, Jack - Shop steward
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 4
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Sum up everything you came to know from the unit about
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •7. What difficulties and problems do good employee-management relations present?
- •8. In what way do the management regulate the going-on activities?
- •9. What does the work of a Personnel Manager entail?
- •Listening Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Illustration 1
- •Phrase list
- •5. What does the Balance Sheet show?
- •6. Why is stock valuation a mixed blessing?
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Post-listening Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Explain why and how hi-jackers stole office-furniture.
Post-listening
Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
What are the main functions of the trade union?
What is the reason for trouble in he press room?
What are the grounds for Smith’s wage claim?
Why does I. Hampden feel that the system of profit sharing should be introduced in the firm?
How has I. Hampden managed to make J. Green approve the profit-sharing proposals?
Recount the situation as if you were Jack Green, say whether you are in favour of the profit sharing scheme suggested by Ian Hampden.
Suppose you are Ted Fielding. Do you approve of the way Ian settled the problem?
Speak as if you were Ian Hampden and brief the audience on the chief responsibilities of a Personnel Manager. Is engagement and dismissal of employees his only function?
Suppose you are Symes, an employee who stands by the time clock. Brief a trainee on the following matters:
what an employee has to do with his time card when he arrives or leaves his place of work;
what an employee should expect to happen to his pay if he arrived late at work.
Suppose you are the District Organiser of the National Worker’s Union. Say
what responsibilities of a shop steward are;
if a worker belongs to the union, to whom he pays subscription or union dues;
if an employee works late, what extra money he could claim.
Act out
an imaginary conversation between Ian Hampden and Peter Wiles after Ian’s talk with Jack Green;
an imaginary talk between Jack Green and Smith after Green’s talk with Ian Hampden.
Unit13 |
Risk of a Takeover |
Phrase list
Listen to the tape and practise the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations, quote the sentences in which they are used in the unit. Consult a dictionary and translate them into Russian.
private company
Memorandum of Association
authorised capital
to carry a vote ( about shares )
to have a controlling interest
to be in a position to take over somebody/something
a fully owned subsidiary
to outvote somebody
personal loan
the rate of interest
to ask for security
to hold the deeds of somebody
building society
to repay a proportion of the loan to somebody plus interest
to agree to a second mortgage (the mortgage with ...)
to raise a mortgage on somebody’s property
to give (to advance) an unsecured loan
to have the lion’s share with fifty per cent
the solicitor
to form a trust
to raise a loan
the total share capital
to see somebody at short notice
an overdraft
to provide (an adequate) security
to have somebody’s record of business as a guarantee
to have a straight loan
to pay two per cent above the bank rate
to get a holding equal to something
PRE-LISTENING
Task 1
Consider the introduction to the unit. Answer the following questions and be ready to give a story line. Use the word combinations in brackets.
1. What do we call a private company?
(to be a private company; to be formed by two or more people; to sign a Memorandum of Association; to state something; to agree to take a certain number of shares; to follow the signature; to take shares in the company; members, or shareholders)
2. Why does Harper & Grant Ltd. belong to private companies?
(to found the company; to be started originally by somebody; the authorised capital of the company; to grow; to be worth a certain sum; to carry a vote at a shareholders' meeting)
3. What can the death of Ambrose Harper lead to?
(to cause a crisis in the firm; to manufacture mattresses for beds; to own ten per cent of Harper & Grant shares; to be a personal friend of somebody; to have an opportunity of buying some of the shares formerly belonging to Harper)
Why does the opportunity of buying the shares formerly belonging to Harper by outsiders threaten the existence of Harper & Grant Ltd.?
(to own shares; to stop somebody getting shares; to do something for fear of upsetting the voting power at shareholders' meetings; to own fifty-one per cent of the shares; to have a controlling interest; to be in a very good position to take over the firm completely; to make a firm a fully owned subsidiary)
5. Do the management of Harper & Grant Ltd. welcome the possibility of a take over?
(to be jealous of somebody; to own too many of the shares; to raise a loan; to arrange something with the bank; to lend money; to borrow money; to pay interest on money; to buy enough of the shares; to outvote somebody; to be a personal loan; to be a short-term loan; to pay back the money; the rate of interest)
6. How did H.G. manage to raise a loan?
(to ask for security; to hold the deeds of Grant's house; a building society; to buy the property; to repay a proportion of the loan, plus interest; to agree to a second mortgage; to pay back the loan within the time limit; to pay up the first mortgage; the holder of the second mortgage; to give an unsecured loan; to be without any security or guarantee; to get the money back)
Task 2
Give the English equivalents for the following word combinations:
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