Selling electronic equipment

Mr. Sun works for a big electronic company. They produce different types of electronic equipment, such as telephones, computers, fax machines, copiers, etc.

Their head-office is located in Tokyo. They rent a modern building in the suburbs of the capital. The company has plants and offices in 13 countries, where more than 125,000 employees work.

There are four departments in the head-office. They are: marketing, production, sales and personnel departments.

The company managers are experienced and competent specialists. They run the company successfully.

The board of directors takes the most important decisions on the company’s strategy and distribution of dividends. The sales of the company are high. They are a profit-making company.

Vocabulary

● Make words from “produce” using suffixes: -ed, -tion, -er:

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● Find in the text synonyms for venture _______________, producer _____________

● Give the definition:

Homatek – _______________

Russian Production Association – ________________

Moscow – ________________

Germany – ________________

Tokyo – ________________

Grammar

● Translate sentences with ed-forms:

1. Russian-German venture launched in Mos­cow. _____________________________

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2. The enterprise has produced the first batch of high-efficiency machine-tools. ______

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3. It teamed up with the German Heinemann firm. _____________________________

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4. Experienced consultant for the Moscow machine-tool manufacturers. ____________

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5. Heinemann invested more than seven million marks into the joint venture. ________

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6. The first jointly manufactured HOMATEK machine-tools are ready to be exhibited in the United States of America. _________________________________________________

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● Define the part of speech of the words and translate them:

highly __________, better __________, efficiency ___________, widely __________, manufacturer ____________, numerically ____________, flexible ____________.

● Fill in the gaps with there is (are), it is, they are.

We are an international company. ......... five offices in the company. ……... in different cities. ……... ninety-nine people in the five offices. ……... businessmen, sales executives and secretaries. The boss’s office is in London. ……... in Fleet Street. ……... four directors in the company. ......... economists and trade experts. ……… several assistants as well. ……... of different professions. ……... a large office in Tokyo. ……... in Shimizu port. ......... a lot of computers in each office. …...... both business and personal computers. ……... of course word-processors, photocopiers and electric typewriters in each office. ……... mainly Japanese. We are going to expand our exports.