Exercise 15. Free discussion.

A) Answer the following questions. Give your opinion and justify it.

1)What are advantages and disadvantages of Russian economy integration in the global economic process?

2) Is it possible to eliminate the global economic crises by means of the state regulation?

3) What are the best ways to make multinational corporations and their contractors observe common standards of labour conditions and avoid discrimination?

B) Write down a short summary based on the results of the discussion.

Unit 7. Innovations

Lead-in

Exercise 1. Starting up:

1. How does economy benefit from technological and other innovations?

2. Do you usually talk loudly or quietly into your mobiles? When do you have to talk loudly? Does it irritate you when somebody talks over the phone loudly?

3. Can you find any excuses for those who talk loudly over the phone?

Exercise 2. Work in two teams. Make up a list of the innovations that made a great impact on the development of the world economy.

Listening

Exercise 3. Match the words and phrases with their definitions:

1. earbuds	вмонтировать, встраивать
2. an inevitable consequence	шумоподавляющие характеристики
3. inconsiderate	исчезать
4. advance	устранять
5. a show-off	делать выбор в пользу чего-либо
6. to opt for something	крошечный
7. noise-cancelling features	собеседник
8. to vanish	неизбежное последствие
9. an interlocutor	невнимательный
10. a background noise	успех, прогресс
11. to eliminate	человек, который любит похваляться, привлекать к себе внимание
12. to build into	наушники «пуговки»
13. tiny	фоновый шум

Exercise 4. Listen to the report on noise-cancelling technologies and say why people talk loudly into their mobiles and if there are any excuses for them at present day? (“The Economist”, February 13^th 2010)

Exercise 5. Listen to the report again and fill in the gaps in the script using the target vocabulary from Exercise 3.

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