3. Читання, переклад та переказ тексту. Виконання після текстових вправ.

Top Ten Do's and Don'ts

TOP TEN DO'S

Prepare a complete business plan for any business you are considering.

Use the business plan templates furnished in each session.

Complete sections of your business plan as you proceed through the course.

Research (use search engines) to find business plans that are available on the Internet.

Package your business plan in an attractive kit as a selling tool.

Submit your business plan to experts in your intended business for their advice.

Spell out your strategies on how you intend to handle adversities.

Spell out the strengths and weaknesses of your management team.

Include a monthly one-year cash flow projection.

Freely and frequently modify your business plans to account for changing conditions.

TOP TEN DON'TS

Be optimistic (on the high side) in estimating future sales.

Be optimistic (on the low side) in estimating future costs.

Disregard or discount weaknesses in your plan. Spell them out.

Stress long-term projections. Better to focus on projections for your first year.

Depend entirely on the uniqueness of your business or the success of an invention.

Project yourself as someone you're not. Be brutally realistic.

Be everything to everybody. Highly focused specialists usually do best.

Proceed without adequate financial and accounting know-how.

Base your business plan on a wonderful concept. Test it first.

Skip the step of preparing a business plan before starting.

2. Робота над текстом за професійним спрямуванням. The Knighthood

1. Вставте пропущені букви у словах першого абзацу.

2. Виберіть та вставте запропоновані у дужках слова (banners, considered, riding,

tournaments, trained, courteous, chivalry) в другому абзаці.

3. В третьому абзаці підкресліть правильну граматичну форму, запропоновану в

дужках.

A knight was a "gentleman soldier" or member of the warri_r class of the Middle Ages in Europe. The word knight, from Old English cniht ("boy", "servant"), is a cogn_te of the German word Knecht ("labourer"). The code of chivalry d_alt with three main areas: the military, social life, and religion. Commonly around the age of 20, knights would be adm_tted to their rank in a c_remony called either "d_bbing" or the "Accolade". Only the sons of a knight were eli_ible for the ranks of knighthood.

Knights __________ in hunting, fighting, and __________. They were also trained to practise __________, honorable behaviour, which was _________ extremely important. __________ was the main principle guiding a knight’s life style. One of the greatest signs of chivalry was the flying of coloured __________ , to display power and to distinguish knights in battle and in __________ .

The early Crusades (was helped, helped) to clarify the moral code of chivalry as it related to religion. As a result, Christian armies (began, have begun) to devote their efforts to sacred purposes. As time (being passed, passed), clergy (had instituted, instituted) religious vows which required knights to use their weapons chiefly (about, for) the protection of the weak and defenseless, especially women and orphans, and of churches. The Code of Chivalry (will continue, continued) to influence social behaviour long after the actual knighthood ceased to exist, influencing for example 19th century Victorian perceptions of how a "gentleman" ought to behave.