1.Сделайте анализ предложений, найдите в них причастия, герундии и обороты с ними. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. The board of directors of a limited company is primarily responsible for determining the objectives and policies of a business.

2. There are people carrying out the work of a manager although they do not have that title.

3.They will need to design an effective organisation structure so that there is both a chain of command linking one level of management with another and an effective communication network.

4. Instead of talking about command, they say a manager must motivate or direct and lead other workers.

5. Titanium is preferred to aluminium, without it losing properties at high temperature.

6. The new method having been studied in detail, the product management decided to introduce it at the plant.

7. We cannot overestimate their role in performing monotonous and dull work of typing and retyping different documents and letters.

8. Having set targets and standards, managers have to measure the performance of the organization, and of its staff, in relation to those targets.

2.Произнесите данные числа:

Money: £475 65p; €113.40; €66.88; $156

Decimals and percentages: 27.25 66% 23.4% 51%.

Dates: 1995 2020 1789 15/7/94 30/10/02

Phone numbers: 01865-556890; 800 451-7545; 919 677-1303

3.Научитесь правильно произносить следующие термины и выучите их значения:

Board of Directors; Chairman of the Board of Directors; the Managing Director (the Chief Executive Officer -  CEO); executive managers; department; Human Resources Department (Dpt.) = Personnel Dpt; Finance Dpt; Marketing Dpt; Research and Development Dpt (R & D); Production Dpt; to be appointed to the position; to hold a position; direction and supervision; to have authority, to delegate authority, duties and responsibilities, executive, head, subordinate, immediate subordinates;to run the company; to be the head of; to be in charge of; to be responsible for, to be responsible to, to report to, to be accountable to, to assist, to support, parent company, holding company, affiliate, subsidiary organisation structure; hierarchical (pyramidal) structure line structure; matrix structure

4.Научитесь произносить данные активные слова и выучите их русские значения:

i.e.= that is, day-to-day, so that, like – unlike, for example

 5.Подготовьте чтение данного текста вслух и переведите его на русский язык письменно. Придумайте заголовок к данному тексту по-английски:

Shareholders choose the people who run company for them, i.e. the board of directors. The directors are appointed by the shareholders, normally at the company's annual general meeting, at which the chairman of the board will be expected to account for their stewardship during the previous year. The company's accounts will be presented to the shareholders at that time so they can judge for themselves whether or not the board has been successful.....
 

6. Подумайте и ответьте на следующие вопросы письменно по-английски:

Who provides the capital to start up a company?

Who chooses the people to run the company?

How are these people called?

Who is primarily responsible for determining the objectives and policies of a business?

What is the job of the Board of Directors?

What types of structures do there exist to run the company?

What are the characteristic features of a pyramidal structure?

What departments are in the company?

What type of a company structure is mostly efficient? Give your comments.