Английский для экономистов (учебник английского языка)

Денис Шевчук

Английский для экономистов – учебное пособие предназначено для студентов экономических специальностей и рассчитано на лиц, обладающих знанием нормативной грамматики английского языка и имеющих словарный запас в 2000 лексических единиц. Английский язык для экономистов состоит из 8 разделов, охватывающих широкий круг тем по экономике и бизнесу: экономика, организация, бизнес, менеджмент, маркетинг, реклама, деньги, банки, финансы, бухучет, аудит, резюме экономиста на английском языке и др. Все тексты взяты из оригинальных английских и американских источников. Разделы (равно как и тексты) могут прорабатываться в представленной последовательности или выборочно – в зависимости от целей, задач и уровня подготовки группы, изучающей английский для экономистов. Это эффективный учебник английского языка для экономистов (деловой английский для экономистов).

UNIT 2

BUSINESS ORGANIZATION

The world is a chain, one links another.

Your vocabulary

Business

— work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods and services;

— an organization which produces and sells goods, or which provides a service;

— important matters that you have to discuss or deal with.

Businessman, Businesswoman — a person engaged in trade or commerce.

Business cycle

— process by which investment, output, and employment in an economy tend to fluctuate up and down in a regular pattern causing boom and depression, with recession and recovery as intermediate stages.

Organization

— a large group of people that has particular aims.

Organizer

— the person who makes all the arrangements for something and makes sure that happens as planned.

Ex. 1. Study the following words and word combinations and translate the sentences given below into Russian. Consult a good dictionary if necessary.

mean business, none of one’s business, go out of business, businesslike, be busy with, have no business to do, be in business, like nobody’s business, mind one’s own business

1. Mother has busied herself with our affairs for too long.

2. When traveling on business I take my tiny travel kit.

3. Let’s get down to business.

4. She had no business to publish his letters to her.

5. 50% of these stores were not in business five years ago.

6. They are working away like nobody’s business.

7. Umbrella sellers went out of business.

8. Stop teaching me! It’s none of your business.

9. Listen to me! I mean business!

10. The visit to Copenhagen was brisk and businesslike.

Ex 2. The words given below are the synonyms to the word organization. In what do they differ? Give your own definition to each of them.

Institution, council, body, entity, fund, trust, party, club, society, association, league, federation, union.

Ex. 3. Match thewords listed below with the dictionary definitions which follow.

accountability, effort, pattern, requirement, accomplish, existence, consumer, foster, affect, establish, benefit, involve

1. Create or set it up in a way that is intended to be permanent.

2. Help its development or growth by encouraging people to do or think about it.

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