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Exercises in Word Study

Ex.1. Form adjectives from the following nouns:

organization, material, finance, information, purpose, specification, wealth, liability, owner, person, difficulty.

Ex.2. Give the English for:

фінансові та інформаційні ресурси, компанія з необмеженою відповідальністю, власник, бути повністю відповідальним за борги компанії, втрачати власне майно, фінансові труднощі, компанія з обмеженою відповідальністю, одноосібна власність, товариство, закрита акціонерна компанія, відкрита акціонерна компанія з обмеженою відповідальністю, акціонер, пропонувати акції, продавати акції на фондовій біржі.

Ex.3. Match words from list A with words from list B that have a similar meaning.

A

B

join

purpose

sole trader

public limited company

offer

organize

personal

share

sole proprietorship

listed company

propose

aim

unite

stock

arrange

individual

Ex.4. Find suitable opposites to the following words and phrases:

poverty, limited liability company, to buy, to disunite, to find, public.

Ex.5. Find the odd word.

  1. company, business, firm, corporation, office, enterprise.

  2. sole proprietorship, limited liability, public limited company, partnership, private limited company.

  3. owner, investor, shareholder, consumer, managing director.

Ex.6. Match the nouns in the left hand column with the verbs in the right hand column.

debt

asset

shares

partnership

business

sell off

hold

pay back

buy

issue

run into

join

form

own

lose

Ex.7. The words in the box frequently occur after “debt”.

Find combinations that mean:

  1. a person employed to recover money owed by a person or an organization;

  2. paying loans back to the lender;

  3. renegotiating the form of debts;

  4. renegotiating the dates that debts are to be repaid;

  5. the overall amount of an organization’s debt;

  6. a period when a debtor is having trouble repaying their debts.

Ex.8. Look at the words and phrases in the box. Match them with the correct definition from the list below:

  1. a firm run by two or more partners;

  2. a business owned by one person;

  3. a company in which the owners are entirely liable for the debts of the company;

  4. a company in which the owners are liable only for the amount of money they have invested in the business;

  5. a company that may not offer its shares for sale to the public;

  6. a company whose shares can be bought and sold on the stock exchange;

  7. money owed by one person or an organization to another;

  8. an item of value belonging to a person or a company;

  9. one of many portions into which a company’s capital is divided;

  10. a market where stocks and shares are bought and sold under fixed rules;

  11. a person who owns shares in a company and is, therefore, a member of the company;

  12. (owning) a large amount of money, goods or property.

Ex.9. Write the appropriate word or phrase in the following spaces. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

    1. The person operating a … … owns the business in his or her own name.

    2. Formed by two or more persons, the … is considered a business entity. Each partner is responsible for the … .

    3. All personal … of each partner are at risk if the business fails.

    4. … receive dividends in proportion to the capital they invest.

    5. Being a … … she works long hours in her hairdressing business.

    6. The partnership collapsed as a result of the criminal activities of one of the … .

    7. He has … in British Gas.

    8. He is a man of great … .

    9. The … of going to school is to learn.

    10. He works as a computer operator at the New York … … .

Stock exchange, wealth, purpose, shareholders, sole trader, partners, shares, assets, debts, partnership, sole proprietorship.