IV. Answer these questions using the active vocabulary of the text. 1. How can we call the circle of life?

1. How can we call the circle of life?

2. What stages of life span have you passed?

3. Why do people have to work?

4. Where do you prefer working?

5. What areas with career opportunities are there in the modern business world?

6. What should we do to have good career prospects?

7. What makes many future businessmen start a career working for somebody else?

8. Why do people have to take career breaks sometimes?

9. Where is it easier to make career moves in big companies or in small ones?

10. What qualities or skills are needed for a successful career in business?

V. Match the halves of the phrases from the text.

a)vocational	1.a fortune
b)make	2.a pension
c)earn	3.with people
d)to get on	4.another business
e)a chance of	5.school
f)rapidly growing	6.to say
g)establish a modicum of	7.company
h)put aside	8.being promoted.
i)ins and outs of	9.a living
j)needless	10.a training course
k)go through	11.somebody’s orders
l)obey	12.this choice
m)make	13.enough money
n)get	14.business connections.

VI. Find Russian equivalents to the phrases in ex. V.

а)зарабатывать на жизнь	h)ладить с людьми
b)cделать выбор	i)слушаться чьи-либо приказы
c)не приходится и говорить.	j)наладить некоторые деловые связи
d)получить пенсию	k)быстро растущая компания
e)профессионально-техническое училище	l)подробности другого бизнеса
f)возможность быть повышенным	m)отложить достаточно денег
g)разбогатеть	n)пройти практические курсы

VII. Make an outline of the text consisting of 5-8 sentences.

VIII. Retell the text according to its outline.

VIII. Production

I. Go through the following vocabulary notes to avoid difficulties in understanding and find these words in the text.

manufacturing	производство	capacity	объем
product development	разработка изделия	output	выпуск
quality control	контроль качества	inputs	затраты
production line	поточная линия	lean	неприбыльный
product-led	ориентированный на продукт	convince	убеждать
benchmarking	бенчмаркинг, перенятие опыта	state-of-the-art	внедренный реальный

II. Read the statements and decide whether they are true (T) or false (F).

1. Production simply means the manufacturing of a product.

2. If an industry works at full capacity it means it is using all its available resources.

3. Product-led production means trying to convince consumers to buy the product at first.

4. Benchmarking aims to improve the company’s performance and is connected with the responsibility of every worker in every department.

5. Without innovations there wouldn’t be any inventions and you and your business might prosper.

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