XIV. Scan the text, translate and answer the questions.

Toyota – a Famous Auto Maker

Toyota is a very successful Japanese manufacturing company. They make new models of cars every year.

The company certainly faces a lot of difficulties. For example, Toyota is under pressure from the government and its trade union to reduce working hours. It must hire more people or keep investing in automation. It wants to cut the working hours to 38 hours a week. That’s why the company must continually recruit and train new workers. And it must make assembly-line jobs simpler and easier without hurting productivity or quality.

All this calls for many innovations. For example, they introduced the new electronic system of communication among all factories, and all parts necessary for production can be ordered in a moment. Noiseless electric carriers have replaced old conveyers. Now the workers can speak normally at the assembly line and they even play music in the workshop.

But the main innovation is, of course, the introduction of robots. Sometimes workers are hard to find, machines are everywhere. Video cameras help robots to carry car parts, to put them in right places and to make all necessary operations on them. No wonder all the jobs get done right and the quality of the cars is exceptional. There are only 10 defects per 100 Toyota cars, whereas there are 125 defects per 100 cars produced in other countries.

1. О какой компании рассказывает этот текст?

2. Чем занимается эта компания?

3. С какими трудностями сталкивается компания?

4. Какие меры применяются для устранения этих трудностей?

5. Какие нововведения применяются в производстве?

6. Какое влияние эти инноваций оказывают на выпускаемую продукцию?

7. Каким образом улучшаются условия работы на предприятиях этой компании?

8. Где находятся филиалы этой компании?

Oral Task: Speak about any well-known company

Expanding

I. – Underline the plans that are mentioned by the managing director.

“Well, I think you all know that we’re hoping to expand in China and we are going to move our headquarters from Hong Kong to Shanghai. We’re planning to manage an executive complex in Dalian and we’re also hoping to open a 240-room hotel next year in Zhongshan. We’re expecting to make a profit within 5 years although we’d like to break (пробиваться) even a bit earlier if possible. Within 10 years we want to become the major international hotel group in South-East Asia.”

– Match the verbs to their meanings.

1. hope	a. believe something will happen
2. expect	b. decide in detail what you going to do
3. plan	c. wish something will happen

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