B. Review the main functions of company employees.

· Form a noun describing a function.

Use the suffix –ing:

To plan, to train, to organize, to manage, to recruit, to save.

· Translate the words into Russian.

· Use the English words in statements of your own.

Task IX. Read the phrases and decide which phrase in each group is the main.

To direct a company	To be responsible to	To be in charge of
To manage	To report to	To be in authority of
To run	To be under smb	To be one’s duty
To lead		To be responsible for
To head		To deal with
To supervise		To be in the province of
		To be the concern of

Task IX. Fulfill the scheme:

Company

What I know….	What I would like to know…

Vocabulary Focus

Types of Companies

Task I. A. Read several definitions of the term “company” and translate them into Russian:

Company

An organization made up of people who work together for purposes of business or trade

(Dictionary of Language and Culture, p. 254)

An organization that sells goods or services

(Key Words in Business, p. 1)

Number of persons united for business or commerce

(Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English, p. 171)

Number of persons working together

(Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English, p. 171)

B. Choose the definition that is the most suitable for business purposes and explain your reasons.

Task II. Give English equivalents:

· Работать совместно.

· Объединиться для ведения бизнеса или торговли.

· Цель.

Task III. Make up word-combinations. Translate them into Russian.

A. Noun+ company

You may use:

Family, parent, etc.

B. Company +noun

You may use:

Car, director, law, profit, profile, etc.

C. Adjective + company

You may use:

Private, public, traditional, multinational, small etc.

Task IV. (Moodle) Match the words and phrases on the left with their definitions on the right:

1) company	a) company which makes aircraft
2) shipping company	b) company with a small number of shareholders
3) chocolate company	c) business or group of people organized to buy, sell or provide service
4) aircraft company	d) company whose business is in transporting goods
5) private company	e) company that belongs to members of a family
6) family company	f) company which makes chocolate
7) business	g) a group containing a lot of companies in different businesses
8) giant	h) a holding and its subsidiaries
9) group	i) the production, buying, and selling of goods and services
10) company car	j). laws which refer to the way companies may work
11) company law	k) person who is appointed by the shareholders to help run a company
12) company director	l) car which belongs to a company and is lent to an employee to use personally

Task V. A. Translate the following extracts into Russian:

Business in Brief

Newspaper Publishing, the holding company which owns the daily and Sunday Independent titles, announced the plans to launch an advertising campaign in the Russian market.

The fate of the sportswear company Adidas was decided yesterday. The French businessperson Bernard Tapie has sold his controlling stake in the group to a group of investors for DM615 million.

Pearson, a publishing- giant that controls the Financial Times, Penguin books and 50% of the Economist, got interested in Thames Television, Britain’s biggest independent TV producer.

B. Ask your partner what he / she has learnt about the companies mentioned in the extracts from the Economist.

Task VI. Match the words and phrases in the left column with their Russian equivalents in the right column.

1) to sell one’s controlling stake a) начать рекламную кампанию

2) independent company b) заинтересоваться

3) to launch an advertising campaign c) продать контрольную долю

4) to get interested in d) дочерняя компания, филиал

5) to announce the plans e) независимая компания

6) subsidiary f) штаб квартира компании

7) headquarters g) объявить о планах

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