Entrepreneurs

1. Entrepreneur is a person who organizes and manages a business.

This is a French word that has been accepted into the English language.

Its popularity probably has something to do with its grand sound which befits anyone who has the initiative to create and run a business.

2. Entrepreneurs are a mystery to some people, especially those who are only comfortable with a nine-to-five existence and assured weekly paychecks and fringe benefits. The entrepreneur is a business person who prefers to take calculated risks in order to be his or her own boss.

3. Sometimes the entrepreneur is regarded as a business person who takes risks. This is not so. An entrepreneur is a business person who minimizes risks. He or she does this by advance planning, research, and meticulous consideration of all factors that could affect and possibly endanger her or his enterprise. When the entrepreneur forgets to do advance investigation and preparation, then he or she is a gambler at best and a failure statistic at worst.

4. Speaking about entrepreneurship, professor K.Vesper of the University of Washington says that “Business continue to be launched by people who didn’t make it the first time around. A driving force in entrepreneurship…. Is addictiveness. Once people have a taste of freedom in a business of their own, they like it. They don’t want to go back to working for someone else.”

5. While the percentage of growth for men entering into business independence could be measured in the teens, women’s increase in a single decade was 69 percent. There is no mystery here. Women go into business for the same reason men do – to make money and to be their own bosses. The rise in female entrepreneurship is reminiscent of what the early-20^th-century immigrants did – and the more recent waves of immigrants from different parts of the world. Entrepreneurship is regarded to be the first track to success. Rather than to take low-wage, big industry job, people opt to use their wits and energy to climb the ladder of independence the entrepreneurial way.

6. Определите, являются ли приведенные ниже утверждения (1, 2, 3)

а) истинными (true)

б) ложными (false)

в) в тексте нет информации (no information)

1. An entrepreneur is regarded as a business person who takes risks.

2. Once people have a taste of freedom in a business of their own, they don’t want to go back to working for someone else.

3. Each person who owns stock in a corporation becomes its co-owner.

7. Прочитайте абзац 5 и ответьте письменно на следующий вопрос:

What is the reason women go into business?

Вариант №3

1. Переведите письменно существительные (1-10). Выберите определения

(a – j), соответствующие существительным:

1) decade	a) the amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else
2) export	b) business enterprise; a firm
3) business	c) to send or transport abroad, especially for trade or sale
4) company	d) the occupation, work, or trade in which a person is engaged
5) wage	e) a period of ten years
6) profit	f) articles produced to be sold
7) goods	g) payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis
8) consumer	h) the capacity of a physical system to do work
9) price	i) the return received on an investment after all charges have been paid
10) energy	j) a person who buys goods or uses services

2. a) Выполните КОПР № 4.

б) В следующих предложениях подчеркните глагол-сказуемое, определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1) Figures based on the labour-fource survey showed that employment continued to grow.

2) Proposals have also been put forward for increasing worker and researcher mobility.

3) Protesters had decried the risks of mad-cow disease, so the new deal limits imports to low-risk animals under 30 months old.

3. a) Выполните КОПР № 1.

б) В следующих предложениях подчеркните герундий и инфинитив. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1) The two carmakers hope to achieve savings of 5% on common projects.

2) The growing diversification of services rendered by American corporations resulted in their beginning to offer entire packages of services.

3) After some hard talking officials the decision went China’s way at a meeting in Geneva of the Convention on International Trade.

4. a) Выполните КОПР № 1.

б) Письменно переведите на русский язык следующие предложения. Помните, что инфинитивные обороты часто соответствуют придаточным предложениям.

1) Mobile operators appear to have realized that they need to open up their networks.

2) The Fed is reported to accept paper issued by “government-sponsored” enterprises.

3) They called for America’s illegal immigrants to be treated sensibly and humanely.

5. Прочитайте и устно переведите на русский язык весь текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите абзацы 2, 3, 4.