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ББК 81.2Àíãë-923
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Рецензен ты:
канд. экон. наук В.А. Овсянникова
(Финансовая академия при Правительстве РФ);
канд. филол. наук Р.В. Ольшевская
(Московский государственный лингвистический университет);
профессор В.В. Шпрынов
(Московский государственный лингвистический университет)
Главный редактор издательства Н.Д. Эриашвили,
кандидат юридических наук, доктор экономических наук, профессор,
лауреат премии Правительства РФ в области науки и техники
Шевел¸ва, Светлана Александровна.
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Ñ.À. Øåâåë¸âà. — 3-å èçä., ïåðåðàá. и äîï. — Ì.: ЮНИТИДАНА,
— 439 ñ. — (Ñåðèÿ «Special English for
Universities, Colleges»).
ISBN 978-5-238-01587-3
В третьем издании (предыдущие издания — ÞÍÈÒÈ, 1998, 2004)
значительно расширены экономические темы и экономическая лексика.
Текстовая часть пособия — газетные и журнальные статьи,
аннотации зарубежных учебников по экономике, деловые письма,
лекции и выступления. В новое издание включены грамматика и
закрепление
грамматических правил, фонетические упражнения.
Лексические и речевые упражнения ориентированы на написание
кратких эссе по темам, рефератов, обсуждение тем, переводы.
Для студентов, обучающихся по экономическим специальностям,
владеющих английским языком в объеме средней школы и продолжающих
изучение языка в вузе. Пособие может быть полезно широкому
кругу лиц, изучающих экономику и английский язык.
ББК 81.2Àíãë-923
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Contents
Conversation:
Texts:
Annotations:
Grammar:
Word formation:
Lesson 1. You are a student of economics
Teacher and students
Adam Smith
Economics
Economics reading room
The Economics of Networks Industries
Entertainment Industry Economics
The Present Indefinite Tense
The Past Indefinite Tense
The Active and the Passive Voice
Suffixes of nouns
Lesson 2. Economics and economy
Conversation:
Texts:
Annotation:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
Word formation:
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Teacher and students
Microeconomics and macroeconomics
GDP and GNP
Topics in Microeconomics
Further growth in Russia’s GDP
Path to Turkish rate cut open as growth slows
Brazil’s economy grows by 5.4%
The Future Indefinite Tense
Prefixes of nouns
Lesson 3. Sales and products
Newspaper items:
Conversation:
Texts:
Grammar:
Word formation:
51
The Times pulls even further ahead
Unwilling spenders hit German growth
Record industry turns fire on individual piracy
Teacher and students
Retailers and wholesalers
Product life cycle
The Present Perfect Tense
The Present Continuous Tense
Articles
Conversion
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Lesson 4. People and economy
Dialogue:
Annotation:
Texts:
Newspaper item:
Grammar:
71
A stockbroker
Economics and Culture
The economy
Economic activity and business cycle
Economic man
Eurozone economic growth to slow in second half
The Past Perfect Tense
Modal Verbs
The Past Continuous Tense
Articles
Word formation:
Dialogue:
Newspaper items:
Text:
Annotation:
Grammar:
Word formation:
Text:
Newspaper items:
Business letter:
Annotation:
Grammar:
Suffixes of adjectives
Lesson 5. Markets and production
Selling cars
91
Toyota profits boosted by weak yen and strong sales
In the industry biosphere, only the strongest survive
Blyk taps European mobiles
Market schema
From Silicon Valley to Singapore
Participle I
The Rules of the Sequence of Tenses
Attributes
Prefixes of adjectives
Lesson 6. Prices and money
Lecture:
115
Price elasticity
Price support
N Korea forced to lift food prices sharply
Gold provides refuge from declining dollar
Regretting price increase
Bimetallism
The Gerund
Tag-questions
General negative questions
if-, when-clauses
Word formation:
The Present Perfect Continuous Tense
Suffixes and prefixes of verbs
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Lesson 7. Types of economies
Interview:
Texts:
Newspaper items:
Annotation:
Grammar:
Word formation:
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Economies and manufacturing
Allocation of products and resources
Public and private sectors in the UK
UK may move to save British Energy
Bush vows to 'do what it takes' for economy
Between Politics and Markets
many — much; few, a few — little, a little
Equivalents of modal verbs
Participle II
Compounds
Lesson 8. The transitional economy
Dialogue:
Text:
Annotations:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
Lesson 9. Production
Speech:
Texts:
Figure:
Business letter:
Newspaper item:
Grammar:
Lesson 10. Companies
Dialogue:
Business letter:
163
About a lecture on Hungary
The Russian Federation
The Vanishing Rouble
Building capitalism
The New Russia
Privatisation in doubt
Europeans gloomy on economy but shun US model
Europed together
The Infinitive
The Adverb
The Degrees of Comparison
191
The quality of the goods produced
Production function
Production possibility boundary
Location of production
Industrial and office accommodation
Drought forces Australia to cut wheat forecast by third
Object clauses
Attributive clauses
The pronoun one
213
A job interview
Offering an agency
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Text:
Newspaper items:
Annotation:
Grammar:
An Apple a day
IKEA founder ends uncertainty by saying sons will
take over
Companies 'bigger than many nations'
The Entrepreneurship Dinamics
Conditionals
The Absolute Participial Construction
The word other
The word which
Lesson 11. People and labour
Conversation:
Texts:
Annotations:
Newspaper item:
Grammar:
238
Labour conditions
The sources of economic health
Thomas Maltus
Labour market
Work, Employment and Society
The American Workplace
Brussels' plan to give temps more rights
Indefinite Pronouns and Adverbs
Complex Object
Lesson 12. Demand and supply
Lecture:
Texts:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
263
Equilibrium, shortage and excess
The discoverers of the laws
Demand and supply curves
John Maynard Keynes
US to list exempted products next week
Mini helps lift BMW earnings
Subject clauses
Clauses of reason
Possessive Case of nouns
Lesson 13. Monopolies, markets and competition
Interview:
Texts:
Annotation:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
Monopolies in the UK
Monopolistic competition
Market Structure and Competition Policy
World Cup gives Adidas a kick start
Israel diamond market counts cost of conflict
Indirect Speech
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286
McDonalds may face fierce competition
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Lesson 14. Newspapers, profits and prosperity
Texts:
Newspaper headlines
Profit
Radio report:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
Text:
Profit maximisation
From the spot
Volvo earnings rise
Hair cosmetics help increase Henkel profits
Latin America dents Wella
The Complex Subject
Modals and Perfect Infinitives
Lesson 15. Capital, loans, credits
The terms
Dialogue:
Business letter:
Annotation:
Newspaper items:
Use of English:
Lesson 16. Investments
Dialogue:
Business letter:
Text:
Newspaper items:
Use of English:
A syndicated loan
Request for a loan without security
The Political Economy of Capital Controls
Ford succeeds in defusing credit unit time bomb
China’s regulators announce rules to tackle capital
flight
The press and media
363
Negotiating an investment
Personal investment
Investment
Investors positive in face of weak economic data
Global investment bank seeking banking licence
US English
Lesson 17. Stock market
Texts:
Radio report:
Newspaper items:
Use of English:
Text:
Newspaper items:
383
UK markets in securities
Share price indices
On the stock markets
Nikkei drops below 9,500 after S&P's credit warning
Markets plunge on fears of US slowdown
Abbreviations
Lesson 18. Commodity markets
Radio report:
401
On the commodity market
Spot market and quotations
Gold imports to Japan show sharp increase
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Comments from OPEC help lift futures prices
US wheat prices soar to record
Corn and soybean battle
Use of English:
Text:
Radio report:
Newspaper items:
Annotation:
Use of English:
Text:
Newspaper items:
Use of English:
Key to some exercises
Idioms and fixed expressions (general)
Lesson 19. Foreign exchange markets and currencies
Market and rates
From the currency markets
Record high euro not blamed for slowdown — yet
Dollar in focus
Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
Idioms connected with problematic situations
Lesson 20. Government and budget
Speech:
427
The role of government
UK government budget
Spain ‘baby-cheque’ budget targets families
France's confused budget
Warning on Dutch budget surplus
Proverbs
436
415
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