I. Ответьте на вопросы к тексту.

1. What kind of goods does Boots sell?

2. How many stores does the company have in Britain?

3. What types of stores are they?

4. Do many people in Britain buy goods at Boots?

5. How many own-brand products does Boots sell?

6. In what countries does Boots have stores?

7. Why do they hope to expand in Japan?

8. How does Boots use modern technologies?

9. What services will the Internet company offer?

II. Согласитесь с данными утверждениями или опровергните их.

1. Boots is an American company.

2. Boots sells health products.

3. It only sells its goods in small pharmacies.

4. Boots sells mostly its own-brand goods.

5. The products of the company are very popular in Britain.

6. The company began to sell its goods abroad in 2000.

7. Boots has a lot of its shops in Asia.

8. The company is going to sell its goods over the Internet.

9. There are different ways to contact the company.

10. Using modern technologies customers will be able to ask questions about the company’s products, health and fitness.

III. Составьте словосочетания, используя слова из двух столбцов.

choice of department digital leading own-brand second-largest to create to expand two-way

access an Internet company channel market overseas product retailer store TV

IV. Заполните пропуски предлогами, где это необходимо.

1. Our company is the leading retailer ____ office equipment.

2. One ___ five people buy things over the Internet.

3. Krantz&Co has five plants ___ the USA and twenty-five plants ____ the country.

4. We hope to sell our goods ____ French customers ___ future.

5. Italy is the largest market ___ leather goods.

6. Is it possible ___ your customers to buy goods over the Internet?

7. Mr. Doyle is a business consultant. He gives ___ his customers advice ___ business matters.

8. You may ask me any questions ___ products ___ our company.

9. You can buy our products ___ everywhere, ____ small shops ___ large department stores.

V. Заполните пропуски, используя приведенные ниже слова.

choice created customer expand leading overseas own-brand store

1. ABS is the ________ manufacturer of computers.

2. We sell our products ________. Our biggest markets are France and Germany.

3. Our company is planning to ________ and build three new plants in China.

4. Harrods is a very big department ________ in London.

5. Last year we ________ a new model, which is very reliable.

6. Our company offers its customers a wide ________ of products.

7. Our new ________ likes the quality of our goods.

8. We give a 10 % discount for __________ products.

Text B

TELEPHONING: ARRANGEMENTS

Annelise Schmidt gets through to James Cassidy and arranges to meet him.

CASSIDY	James Cassidy.
SCHMIDT	Hello. This is Annalise Schmidt. Do you remember we met at the Frankfurt Book Fair last month?
CASSIDY	Yes, how are you?
SCHMIDT	Fine, thanks. I ’m going to be in London on Tuesday and Wednesday next week. How about meeting up to discuss how Megabook and Sprenger will work together?
CASSIDY	I’ll just check my diary. I won’t be able to see you on Tuesday. I’m going to Manchester. Will Wednesday suit you? How about lunch?
SCHMIDT	Sounds good. Shall we meet at your office? I’ve got the address.
CASSIDY	Yes. Will you come round here at about 12.30? Ask me at the reception and I’ll come down.
SCHMIDT	Yes, that’s fine.
CASSIDY	OK. See you on Wednesday at 12.30, then.
SCHMIDT	Look forward to seeing you then. Bye.
CASSIDY	Goodbye.

Vocabulary

arrange v - устраивать, организовывать, подготавливать

arrange to do smth – договариваться сделать что-л.

come round v – заходить, приходить

diary n – дневник, ежедневник

get through v – дозвониться

How about….? – Как насчет…?

look forward to… v – ждать (с нетерпением)

reception v – приемная

remember v – помнить

Exercises