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POST-LISTENING1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
Phrase listListen to the tape and practise the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations, quote the sentences in which they are used in the unit. Consult a dictionary and translate them into Russian. to upset the balance of power to postpone the possibility (of a takeover) to be over-weighed with somebody / something to be tempted away by somebody budgetary control to introduce monthly accounting by cost centres to draw up quarterly accounts to sound somebody out to have everything one’s own way to balance somebody’s power to put something forward the Rules of Association the qualification holding to put somebody in the picture to offer somebody a directorship to be a counter to somebody to draft (suitable) minutes about proposals to table recommendations (on budgetary control) to give an outline of something to do the accounts to reduce personnel PRE-LISTENING Task I Consider the introduction to the unit. Answer the following questions and be ready to give a story line. Use the word combinations in brackets. 1. What changes occurred in the structure of the capital of Harper & Grant Ltd. after Hector Grant postponed the possibility of a takeover? (to buy two hundred and fifty more shares in the company; the remaining two hundred and fifty shares; the rather dynamic owner of a neighbouring mattress factory; to own a large proportion of the shares; be asked to join the Board) 2. In what way did the death of the Chairman, Ambrose Harper, upset the balance of power on the Board of Directors of Harper & Grant Ltd.? (to become the next Chairman; the present members of the Board; Chairman and Managing Director; to be invited by the Board to become a director; to attend Board meetings; to leave somebody to act for somebody; the Company Secretary) 3. Why does Peter think it is high time John Martin was made a director? (to have a very successful year; to increase sales by almost forty per cent in the two years; to join the firm; to be an added support for himself; to be overweighed with somebody; to have an up-to-date outlook on business; to be tempted away by somebody; to make it worth somebody’s while to stay) 4. What changes in financial control does William Buckhurst initiate? (to discuss budgetary control; to attended a course on something; to introduce monthly accounting by cost centres; to have information about the company's trading position more accurately and more often than at present) 5. How does William Buckhurst explain the necessity of monthly accounts? (to be the forward plan; to spend, to make and to sell during a specific period; a record of what has actually been bought, sold and spent; to be drawn up every three months in a financial year; to discover the profits and losses more often to keep a firmer control; modern management) Task2Give the English equivalents for the following word combinations:
LISTENING Exercise 1 You are going to hear a talk between Peter Wiles and John Martin. Before you listen to the conversation look at these statements, which you will mark T (True) or F (False) after you have listened to the tape.
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