Ex.3. Turn these sentences into disjunctive questions by adding the proper question tags. By asking questions you attempt to clarify a piece of information at your disposal.

a) 1. Ann is Sam’s little sister.

2. Running your own business is risky.

3. Ann is reliable.

4. Money isn’t everything.

5. Sam isn’t naïve.

b) 1. Sam hopes to succeed.

2. Many businesses end up in failure.

3. Running your own business involves great opportunities.

4. Sam wants Ann to go into business with him.

5. Going into business for yourself means making your own decisions.

6. Ann has a good opinion of Sam’s idea.

7. Businessmen don’t always have to manage their businesses.

8. A businessman doesn’t necessarily have to manage his own business.

9. A blue – collar worker does not enjoy as much freedom as a white – collar worker.

10. White – collar workers do not enjoy as much freedom as businessmen.

11. Working for yourself you do more.

12. Businessmen don’t “enjoy” freedom.

13. By making decisions you do not necessarily.

c) 1. At first Ann did not want to go into business with Sam.

2. Ann wasn’t his big sister.

3. It wasn’t easy for Sam to hit the right idea.

4. Henry Jones did not mind work.

5. Mary Jones didn’t die in an accident.

6. After Henry was able to go into the pit again Mary did not have to go to work any longer.

7. When John Jones was standing on deck the weather was bad but he didn’t go into the cabin.

8. John did not plan to go back home.

Ex.4. Use the following words and word combinations speaking about Ann, Sam and the business they plan to start.

· to succeed

· to be wary of

· to be opposed to smth

· to run one’s own business

· to end up in failure

· to involve opportunities

· to trust smb

· to be reliable

· to be as good as one’s word

· needless to say

· one would not think of doing smth

· to convince smb (to do smth)

· the plus and minus sides of smth/doing smth

· a well-/badly managed business

· to generate profit

· to make one’s own decisions

· to be/to prove disastrous

· to manage one’s businesses

· to turn out to be

· a white-collar worker

· a blue-collar worker

· to be naïve

· (under the circumstances/in such a case) one does more, not less

· to take risks

· half of the time

· a wet blanket

· to risk one’s property

· to build a business from scratch

· a self-made man

· to launch a business/ an advertising agency

QUOTATION FOLIO

Self – made men most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

Josh Billings, American humorist

Reading and discussion.

THE DOLLAR

The dollar is the basic unit of United States money. It is worth 100

The dollar is also the main currency unit of:

· Australia,

· Canada,

· Jamaica,

· New Zealand,

· Singapore,

· Zimbabwe

and some other countries.

The dollar was adopted in the USA in 1792. The first US dollar was issued in silver and gold. After 1934, however, all gold coins were taken out of circulation. A silver dollar was issued at various times from 1794 until 1935.

The dollar was adopted in Canada in 1878. Australia adopted the dollar in 1966, and New Zealand in 1967.

THE POUND

The basic unit of money of the United Kingdom is the pound, also called the pound sterling. The symbol of Britain’s pound sterling is £. Today the pound is equal to 100 pence. The British adopted the decimal system in 1971.

Things were far more complicated in the past. The pound was subdivided into 20 shillings. The shilling was subdivided into 12 pennies. The guinea was equal to one pound one shilling. It was a gold coin used in fixing prices of valuable goods. There also were crowns, 5-shilling silver coins; half- crowns worth 2 shilling and 6 pence; florins, 2-shilling silver pieces; bobs worth 12 pence. A sixpence was a 6-penny coin and a 3-penny piece was called a “threepence”.

There also were “ha’pennies”, copper coins, worth half a penny, and farthings, or quarter-penny copper coins.

You may ask what you need to know all this for. Perhaps you don’t have to remember any of it. Unless, of course, you collect coins. Or read the great works of English literature.

VOCABULARY

adopt [ə’dɒpt] принимать

basic [‘beisik] основной, главный, наиболее важный

bob [bɒb](pl без измен.) разг. шиллинг

circulation [,sɜ:kjʊ’leiʃ(ə)n] обращение (денежное)

coin [kɔin] монета

copper [‘kɒpə] медь

copper медный

crown [kraʊn] корона

currency [‘kʌrənsi] валюта, деньги

decimal [‘desm(ə)l] десятичный

equal [‘i:kwəl] одинаковый, равный

equal равняться, быть равным

farthing [‘fɑ:ðiŋ] фартинг

florin [‘flɒrin] флорин

guinea [gini] гинея

halfpenny [heipni] разг. монета в полпенса

ha’penny [‘heipni] (p l ha’pennies, разг. монета в полпенса

ha’pence)

issue [‘isu:, ‘isju] выпуск

issue выпускать

penny [‘peni] (pl pence, pennies- пении, пенс

об отдельных монетах)

piece [pi:s] монета

silver piece серебряная монета

crown piece корона. монета в одну корону

shilling [‘ʃiliŋ] шиллинг

sixpence [‘sikspəns] монета в шесть пенсов

sterling [‘stɜ:liŋ] стерлинг

the pound sterling фунт стерлингов

subdivide [,sʌbdi’vaid] подразделять

symbol [‘simb(ə)l] символ, эмблема

threepence [‘θrepəns,’θrʌ-,’θrʊ-] монета в три пенса

unit [‘ju:nit] единица

worth [wɜ:θ] имеющий ценность, стоимость

various [‘ve(ə)riəs] разный

Australia [ɔ:’streiliə] геогр. Австралия

Canada [‘kænədə] геогр. Канада

Jamaica [dʒə’meikə] геогр. Ямайка

New Zealand [‘nju:’zi:lənd] геогр. Новая Зеландия

Singapore [‘siŋəpɔ:] геогр. Сингапур

Zimbabwe [zim’bɑ:bwei] геогр. Зимбабве

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