Gross Domestic Product

Задание 1. Определите, к какой части речи относятся следующие слова:

to produce	to calculate	to manufacture	to quote
produce	calculation	manufacture	quoted
producer	calculator	manufacturer	quoting
product	calculated	manufactured	quotation
production	calculating	manufacturing
produced
producing

Задание 2. Прочитайте и переведите следующий текст.

Gross Domestic Product

Gross Domestic Product or GDP is the amount of money a country makes from goods and serv­ices inside the country for a certain period of time, usually for a year.

When GDP is calculated different sectors of economy are analysed.

In the United Kingdom the following sectors of economy are usually analysed: manufacturing, services (financial, professional and scientific services, leisure and tourism), energy (oil, natural gas, coal) and agriculture. In the United States the following sectors of economy are usually analysed when the GDP is defined: construction and manufacturing; trade and finance; transport, com­munication and services; agriculture; and mining. Speaking, as an example, about one of the re­cent year's GDP figures, the following can be quoted:

In the UK the services sector accounted for roughly 60 per cent of Gross Domestic Product. Manufacturing sector accounted for a small percentage of Gross Do­mestic Product. Energy production sector accounted for about 8 per cent of GDP. Agriculture - only for 4 per cent of GDP. But the agricultural sector satisfies two-thirds of the country's needs. And only a small fraction of the total population, about 2 per cent, are engaged in agriculture.

In the USA the construction and manufacturing sector accounted for 40 per cent of GDP; trade and fi­nance earned 25 per cent of GDP; transport, commu­nication and services sector earned 20 per cent of GDP; agriculture and mining earned 5 per cent of GDP. By the way 10 per cent of the employed population of the United States is engaged in agriculture.

Vocabulary

* Gross Domestic Product		валовой внутренний продукт
to calculate		подсчитывать
manufacturing		обрабатывающая промышленность
science scientific		наука научный
leisure		досуг
natural gas		природный газ
agriculture		сельское хозяйство
to define		определять
to quote		цитировать, приво­дить (текст)

Задание 3. Найдите в тексте термин, обозначающий:

the amount of money a country makes from goods and services inside the country for a certain period of time, usually for a year.

Задание 4. Заполните пропуски предлогами:

1. The services sector accounts _____ about 60 per cent of GDP.

2. Manufacturing sector accounts _____ a small percentage of GDP.

3. Agricultural sector satisfied two-thirds _____ the country's needs.

4. About two per cent _____ the population are engaged _____ agriculture.

5. How many people are engaged _____trade?

Задание 5. Закончите следующие предложения:

1. In the United Kingdom the following sectors of economy are usually analysed to define GDP: __________________________________

2. In the United States the following sectors of economy are usually

analysed when GDP is defined:_____________________________________

Задание 6. Переведите на английский язык:

валовой внутренний продукт ______________________________________

промышленное производство ______________________________________

добывающая промышленность _____________________________________

услуги __________________________________________________________

досуг, туризм ____________________________________________________

энергетика (нефть, газ, уголь) ______________________________________

сельское хозяйство_______________________________________________

строительство ___________________________________________________

торговля и финансы ______________________________________________

транспорт и связь ________________________________________________

Задание 7. Ответьте на следующий вопрос: What sectors of economy are usually analysed when the GDP of Russia is defined?

Задание 8. Ответьте на следующий вопрос: What do you know about the current GDP of Russia?