Text Michelin

Michelin is a famous old company with a dynamic young chairman. Eduord Michelin is the great-greadson of the founder of this company, which is based in Clermont Ferrard in the centre of France. Michelin manufactures tyres and supplies them all over the world. The company employs about 120.000 people and has annual sales of over €14 billion. Goodyear and Firestone are Michelin’s main competitors. Eduord Michelin manages the company using modern methods. A the moment, Michelin sells tyres to the BMW Williams team. The company has two main markets, Europe and the USA, but it plans to develop the Asian market. In the USA it owns the Uniroyal company. It advertises a lot on TV and in magazines and sponsors racing events. It also publishes the famous Michelin guidebooks. Edourd Micheli and his wife have five children and live outside Clermont Ferrand.

Answer the following questions about Michelin:

1. What is the name of the company?

2. Where is the company (the headquarters, the head office) based?

3. Does the company have any subsidiaries? Where?

4. What does the company do?

5. What are the main products?

6. How many people work in the company?

7. Who is the owner (the founder, the head) of the company?

8. Is the company successful?

9. What are the main markets?

10. Who are the main competitors?

1. What are the plans for the future?

UNIT V. My working day

Speaking: Speaking about smb’s working day

Text: Michael Dell’s working day

Grammar: Present Simple (II), числительные, предлоги времени

Числительные от 1 до 12

Числительные обозначают количество предметов или их порядковый номер. Таким образом, они делятся на количественные и порядковые.

Количественные числительные о 1 до 12 являются непроизводными.

Порядковые числительные, начиная с 4-го, образуются от соответствующих количественных числительных путем прибавления суффикса –th. Порядковые числительные «первый, второй, третий» имеют особую форму.

1-one 2-two 3-three 4-four 5-five 6-six 7-seven 8-eight 9-nine 10-ten 11-eleven 12-twelve

The first The second The third The fourth The fifth The sixth The seventh The eighth The ninth The tenth The eleventh The twelfth

Обратите внимание на следующие изменения в написании и произношении следующих чисел:

Five - the fifth

Twelve – the twelfth

Предлоги Времени

Exercise 1. Use the appropriate preposition with the following words and word combinations

Exercise 2. Use at, on, in if necessary

Text Michael Dell’s working day

Michael Dell is chairman of Dell Computer Corporation in the US. For about 30 percent of his time he travels overseas and meets international customers. Each year he makes two or three trips to Europe and two trips to Asia.

When he is at his home in Austin, Texas, he gets up at 5.30 a.m. each day. He lives with his wife, Susan, and their four children, who are all under the age of ten. His wife owns a clothes shop in Austin.

In the mornings he does exercise for an hour from 6.00 a.m. and then drives to his office. He arrives at 8.00 a.m. At his office he talks to customers and makes plan for the organization.

He leaves the office at about 6.15 p.m. and has dinner with his family. He reads stories to his children and gets them to beds. He often spends time in the evening writing e-mails. “Then I go to sleep, get up and do it all again,” he says.

In his free time he likes to go running and biking.

(From The Times)

Exercise 1. Mark each statement true or false

1. Michael Dell makes three trips to Asia each year. False

2. He lives in Europe.

3. He has four children.

4. His wife has a shop in Austin, Texas.

5. He has dinner with customers.

6. He works on his computer in the evening.

Exercise 2. Complete the article about Giorgio Armani’s working day. Use the verbs from the box

Works sleeps has spends wakes stops Walks travels goes

Giorgio Armani ……… up at 7 a.m. He … to the gym and ……….. an hour there. He …… breakfast and then …… to the office with his bodyguard. He has pasta and a salad for lunch and then he ….. for 10 minutes.

He …. Until 8.00 p.m. on design and administration. He ….. every two months – to the USA, Russia or other parts of Europe. On his way home from the office, he often …. For a drink at Nobu. At weekends he goes to his villa.

Exercise 3. Complete the information about Patrick Ross. Use the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

I’m Patrick Ross and I …. (work) for an American securities company in Tokyo. I …. (live) near Shibuya, and I…. (travel) to work by subway. My wife is Japanese. She ….. (work) part-time for a Japanese shipping company. She …. (drive) to work. We both …. (like) sports and travelling. We …. (play) golf at the weekend. Our two children (go) to an international school.

Exercise 3. Ask your partner questions and write a paragraph about your partner:

What time/ wake up? What time do you wake up?

1. You/have a shower or a bath?

2. What/you have breakfast?

3. You/read the newspaper or listen to the radio?

4. How/you get to work?

5. When/you have your main meal?

6. When/you finish work?

7. What/you do in the evenings?

Exercise 4. Write about your working day.

UNIT VI. Reporting on a trip

Speaking: Reporting on a trip

Grammar: Past Simple (I)

Grammar Past Simple (1)

Exercise 1. Complete the sentences using one of these verbs in Past Simple

Die enjoy finish happen open rain start stay want

1. I cleaned my teeth three times yesterday.

2. It was hot in the room, so I ...... the window.

3. The concert .............. at 7.30 and ............... at 10 o’clock.

4. When I was a child, I .................. to be a doctor.

5. The accident .................. last Sunday afternoon.

6. It’s a nice day today but yesterday it ............... all day.

7. We ...................... our holiday last year. We ............ at a very nice hotel.

8. Ann’s grandfather ................... when he was 90 years old.

Exercise 2. Write down the sentences using the verbs in Past Simple

1. Jim always goes to work by car. Yesterday he went to work by bus.

2. Rachel often loses her keys. She ............. her keys last week.

3. Kate meets her friends every evening. She ......... them yesterday evening.

4. I usually buy two newspapers every day. Yesterday I ................. a magazine.

5. We usually go to the cinema on Sundays. Last Sunday we ......... to the cinema.

6. I eat an orange every day. Yesterday I ............... an orange.

7. Tom always has a shower in the morning. This morning he .......... a shower.

8. Our friends come to see us every Friday. They ..................... last Friday.

Exercise 3. Make the second parts of each sentence negative.

1. I saw Barbara but I ..................... Jane.

2. They worked on Monday but they.................. on Tuesday.

3. We went to the post office but we ................ to the bank.

4. She had a pen but she ................... a pencil.

5. Jack did French at school but he .................. German.

Exercise 4. Make up sentences and ask questions using the words in brackets

Model: Mary went somewhere yesterday. Did she go to the theatre?

Exercise 5. Translate the sentences from Russian into English

1. Я играл вчера в теннис.

2. Прошлым летом мы жили в Сочи.

3. Вчера она ехала в школу на автобусе.

4. У них не было урока истории вчера.

5. Ты не пришел домой вовремя.

6. Что ты видел в зоопарке вчера?

7. Когда начался урок музыки?

8. Что вы делали в воскресенье?

9. На прошлой неделе шел дождь? – Нет, погода была солнечная.

10. Они спали днем.

Reading. The diary of Pierra Macaluso

Pierra Macaluso works for Credito Reggio, an Italian Bank. Below is her diary for one week last year. Use the information from the documents to help you fill in the blanks in the diary.

Speaking. Work in pairs. Student A, you work at the head office of a large company in London. Student B is one of your salesman. You are checking the expenses for last week. Look at the notes below and ask questions to find out more information.

Student A

Student B