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ББК УДК 811.111:65.0(075.8)
81.2Англ-923
Учебное издание
Шевелева Светлана Александровна
АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК ДЛЯ ЭКОНОМИСТОВ
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Contents
Lesson 1. You are a student of economics
Conversation:
Texts:
Annotations:
Grammar:
Word formation:
Texts:
Annotation:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
Word formation:
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Teacher and students
Adam Smith
Economics
Economics reading room
The Economics of Networks Industries
Entertainment Industry Economics
The Present and Past Indefinite Tense
The Active and Passive Voice
Suffixes of nouns
Lesson 2. Economics and economy
Conversation:
29
Teacher and students
Microeconomics and macroeconomics
GDP and GNP
Topics in Microeconomics
Russia GDP growth rate
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:
47
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:
Word formation:
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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
Suffixes of adjectives
Lesson 5. Markets and production
Dialogue:
Newspaper items:
Text:
Annotation:
Grammar:
Word formation:
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Selling cars
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:
Text:
Newspaper items:
Business letter:
Annotation:
Grammar:
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Price elasticity
Price support
N Korea forced to lift food prices sharply
Gold provides refuge from declining dollar
Regretting price increase
Bimetallism
Word formation:
The Gerund
Tag-questions
General negative questions
if-, when-clauses
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:
Text:
Annotations:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
Lesson 9. Production
Speech:
Texts:
Figure:
Business letter:
Newspaper item:
Grammar:
Lesson 10. Companies
Dialogue:
Business letter:
Text:
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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
All areas of the US show growth, Fed reports
Between Politics and Markets
many — much; few, a few — little, a little
Equivalents of modal verbs
Participle II
Compound nouns
Lesson 8. The transitional economy
Dialogue:
147
About a lecture on Hungary
The Russian Federation
The Vanishing Rouble
Building capitalism
The New Russia
Europed together
The Infinitive
The Adverb
Privatisation in doubt
Europeans gloomy on economy but shun US
model
The Degrees of Comparison
171
The quality of the goods produced
Production function
Production possibility boundary
Location of production
Object clauses
Attributive clauses
The pronoun one
A job interview
Offering an agency
An Apple a day
Industrial and office accommodation
Drought forces Australia to cut wheat forecast
by third
191
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Newspaper items:
Annotation:
Grammar:
IKEA celebrating 80th anniversary
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:
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Annotations:
Newspaper item:
Grammar:
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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:
235
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
Lesson 13. Monopolies, markets and competition
Interview:
Texts:
Annotation:
Grammar:
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McDonalds may face fierce competition
Monopolies in the UK
Monopolistic competition
Market Structure and Competition Policy
Newspaper items: World Cup gives Adidas a kick start
Israel diamond market counts cost of conflict
Indirect Speech
Lesson 14. Newspapers, profits and prosperity
Texts:
Profit maximisation
276
Newspaper headlines
Profit
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Radio report:
Newspaper items:
Grammar:
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
Text:
Dialogue:
Business letter:
Annotation:
Newspaper items:
Use of English:
Lesson 16. Investments
Dialogue:
Business letter:
Text:
Newspaper items:
Use of English:
Lesson 17. Stock market
Texts:
Radio report:
Newspaper items:
Use of English:
Text:
Newspaper items:
299
The terms
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
321
Negotiating an investment
Personal investment
Investment
Investors positive in face of weak economic
data
Global investment bank seeking banking
licence
US English
339
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:
354
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:
Tests
Key to some exercises
Key to the tests
Idioms and fixed expressions (general)
Lesson 19. Foreign exchange markets and currencies
Market and rates
Dollar in focus
Lesson 20. Government and budget
Speech:
367
From the currency markets
Record high euro not blamed for slowdown —
yet
Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
The role of government
UK government budget
Idioms connected with problematic situations
378
Spain ‘baby-cheque’ budget targets families
France’s confused budget
Warning on Dutch budget surplus
Proverbs
385
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