- •Міністерство аграрної політики України
- •Unit 1 what is economics?
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word-combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make up your own dialogue using the following expressions and word-combinations:
- •10. Inform the group about your activities and find out if he or she does the same:
- •11. Express doubt concerning the truth of the following statements:
- •12. Ask about the following as in the model:
- •13. Translate into English:
- •14. Communicative situations:
- •Unit 2 the american economic system
- •1. Read and memorize following words, word-combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words: a profit, resources, the answers, prices, consumers, levels, a price, money.
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make your own dialogue using the following words, expressions and word-combinations:
- •10. Open the brackets using the Present Indefinite Tense in the Passive Voice:
- •11. Read and change the sentences according to the model:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Communicative situations:
- •Unit 3 the consumer in our economy
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word-combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make up your own dialogue using the following words, expressions and word-combinations:
- •10. Express the following in the Passive Voice:
- •11. Ask questions to the following sentences:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Communicative situations:
- •Unit 4 launching a business
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word-combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate Into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make up your own dialogue using the following expressions:
- •10. Inform the group about the future activities or states:
- •11. Ask for confirmations of the truth of the following statements:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Communicative situations:
- •Unit 5 financing a business
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word- combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make up your own dialogue using the following expressions:
- •10. Make the following sentences passive:
- •11. Translate the verbs in brackets in English using them in the necessary tense-form:
- •12. Translate into English:
- •13. Communicative situations:
- •Unit 6 production and marketing. The business of business
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word-combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Put questions to the italicized words:
- •10. Replace the infinitives in brackets by the Present Continuous Tense (the Active Voice):
- •11. Translate into English:
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word- combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents to the following:
- •3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make up your own dialogue using the following expressions:
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word- combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make up your own dialogue using the following expressions:
- •10. Put the infinitives in brackets in the Past Continuous Tense:
- •11. Paraphrase the following sentences as in the model:
- •12. Translate into English using the Past Continuous Tense (the Active Voice):
- •13. Communicative situations:
- •1. Read and memorize the following words, word-combinations and word-groups:
- •2. Give English equivalents of the following:
- •3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words
- •4. Read and translate the text:
- •5. Answer the following questions:
- •6. Define the terms:
- •7. Translate into English:
- •8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
- •9. Make up your own dialogue using the following expressions:
- •10. Change the following sentences using the Passive Voice:
- •11. Ask when and what -questions using the Passive Voice:
- •12. Translate into English using the Past Continuous Tense (the Passive Voice):
- •13. Communicative situations:
- •Self-assessment criteria
- •If you have got:
8. Read and dramatize the following dialogue:
B. : When did modern production methods take a giant leap forward, I wonder?
C. : Modern production methods took a giant leap forward in 1913 when Henry Ford (1863–1947) introduced the use of the assembly line in the production of automobiles. In those days, automobiles were built in much the same way as a house.
В.: What do you mean?
C.: That is workers simply picked a spot on the factory floor and assembled the car from the bottom up. As business grew Ford began manufacturing many of the component parts formerly purchased from suppliers. Typically the components were put together by one worker who performed all the operations necessary to assemble them.
B. : The method was likely to be costly, and so only the wealthy could afford to buy automobiles in those days.
C. : For sure. This did not please Henry Ford who wanted to bring the price of automobiles down to the point where most families could afford them.
B.: What was the key to achieving this goal?
C.: The key to achieving this goal, in Ford's view, was through the improvement of labour productivity. He needed to find a way to
limit the number of operations performed by each worker;
bring the work to the worker rather, than the other way around;
perform each operation in the most efficient sequence he could find.
B.: Thus he found what he was seeking in his new creation: the assembly line. Ford's first line, introduced in April 1918, was used to assemble generators. Working in the old way, one worker had been able to put together 25 to 30 generators in a 9-hour day. This transtaled to something around 20 minutes per assembly. The new line broke the operation into 29 steps performed by individual workers on parts that were brought to them by the steadily moving assembly line.
C.: And what about the price of automobiles?
B. : Assembly line methods brought the price of automobiles within the reach of millions of American families. As a result, automobile registrations jumped from 944.000 in 1912 to 2,5 million in 1915 and 20 million by 1925.
C. : So Henry Ford was not an economist, but his innovative production strategies had a revolutionary impact on American industry and living standards.
В. : Well, certainly. As automobiles, appliances and other labor saving goods of the new industrial age became less expensive and more affordable for the average family, it was clear that the assembly lines of a Michigan factory had changed American households as dramatically as its factories.
9. Put questions to the italicized words:
1. Many appliances and other labour saving goods are becoming less expensive and more afford able for the average family. 2. The population is growing now at a faster rate than production in that country. 3. Steps to restore full employment are increasing. 4. They are producing more and better products with the same time and resources. 5. Union restrictions are preventing employers from laying off workers as quickly as they might prefer.