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6.5.3. Oral Practice. Explain in English the meanings of the following words and expressions.

Work in small groups and discuss them

international liquidity

international financial institutions

parity = par value

currency intervention

6.5.4. Written Practice. Thinslation Focus

Translate the sentences into English making use of the active (6.4.1, 6.4.2).

1. Для регулирования возникших валютных отношений между странами необходима валютная

система.

2. Первоначально появилась национальная валютная система, т. е. организация валютных

отношений страны, сложившаяся исторически и закрепленная законодательно.

3. По мере интернационализации хозяйственных связей формируются национальная,

региональная и мировая валютные системы.

4. Национальная валютная система является составной частью внутренней денежной системы.

5. На национальную валютную систему возлагается ряд функций: (1) формирование

и использование валютных ресурсов; (2) обеспечение внешнеэкономических связей

страны; (3) обеспечение стабильных условий функционирования национальной экономики.

6. Региональная валютная система — это форма организации отношений группы государств,

связанных межгосударственными договорами. Наиболее яркий пример региональной

валютной системы — Европейский союз с валютой евро.

7. Мировая валютная система включает, с одной стороны, валютные отношения, с другой

валютный механизм (правовой механизм).

8. Валютная политика представляет собой инструмент регулирования валютных отношений.

6.5.5. Multiple Choice Comprehension Check (basic Text 6.4)

Check the comprehension of the text choosing the answer which, you think, is correct.

1. What is implied by the world money commodity?

a) This is the equivalent of exported films from the country.

b) This is the equivalent of the wealth (capital) exported from the nation.

c) This is the equivalent of the exported collected works by economists from the country.

2. Gold performs the function of money in the system of the gold standard. What other main provisions

of this system do you know?

a) The national exchange rates were tied to gold. There was a great deviation from the fixed rate

(±30 %).

b) The national exchange rates were tied to gold. But each nation established a maximum deviation

individually. It mainly depended on the will of the monarch, since the monarchist

form of government was in the majority of countries of Western Europe.

c) The national exchange rates were fixed hard to gold within this system. There was a minimum

deviation from the fixed rate (±1 %).

3. What can be referred to the advantages of the gold standard system ?

a) This standard provided the internal stability of the national monetary system, but the trade

relations were restrained by the foreign economic policy.

b) The stability in both internal and foreign economic policies was provided. On the one hand,

it stimulated international trade and, on the other, the stability of the exchange rates allowed

to plan expenses and profits.

c) The exchange rates stability was provided, at the same time flows of money (cash flows) of

the companies promoted the allocation of capital only for the gold-mining industry.

4. What disadvantages do you see in the gold standard system ?

a) First of all, the impossibility to carry out the independent monetary policy directed to solving

the domestic problems of the nation. In addition, there existed a great dependence of the

money in circulation upon the gold-mining.

b) Mainly, in the great gold-value cargo turnover among nations.

c) A substantial growth of gold coin supply in circulation may be referred to the disadvantages.

Is it possible to define a more precise date of the substitution of the gold standard system ?

a) I think it is not so difficult. Already at the beginning of the last century this system was

eliminated.

b) I believe this system was in existence till 1911.

c ) I would say that World War I led to the destruction of the currency system of Genoa — the

last modification of the gold standard, though it was officially substituted in 1944 at the

Bretton Woods International Conference.

Oral Practice

Hold a business exchange of opinions using the given cliches, set expressions, and some prompts.

Work with partners.