Conversational formulae box1
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 479.
WARMING UP
UNIT 1 MONEY MATTERS
Task 5. Decide whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE.
1. Production or operations management is important to all businesses. TRUE/FALSE
2. Production departments usually concentrate on quality, quantity, and flexibility. TRUE/FALSE
3. Workers who are treated well will probably be more productive. TRUE/FALSE
4. Large companies are generally obliged to do their own research and development. TRUE/FALSE
5. Decision-making concerning new products or the building of new production facilities follows sales forecasting. TRUE/FALSE
Task 6. Match up these words to make collocations:
| 1. human | a. companies |
| 2. lead | b. laboratories |
| 3. manufacturing | c. management |
| 4. operations | d. materials |
| 5. raw | e. on assets |
| 6. research | f. resources |
| 7. return | g. time |
| 8. staff | h. training |
1. Support or refute the following ideas, using conversational formulae box below:
| Money makes the world go round. Money can't buy you love. Gold is something you buy if you have something to lose (Adrian Ash) The beauty of gold is it likes bad news (John Updike) A fool and his money are soon parted. |
| Giving an opinion | |
| I'm convinced… I'm sure… I'm positive that.. I have no doubt… I believe… I think that… I tend to think… Agreeing | In my view,… In my opinion,… As I see it,… My impression is that It seems to me… Perhaps… I feel that… Disagreeing |
| Strong | |
| I totally agree. I agree entirely. I couldn't agree more. I quite agree. Absolutely! Precisely! Exactly! | I don't agree with you at all . I totally disagree. You are quite wrong. Of course not. Far from that. Rubbish!/Nonsense! You must be joking! |
| Neutral | |
| I agree with you. I think you are right That's right. That's true. | I am afraid, I can't agree with you on this point I can't see that, I am afraid. I don't really think so. |
| Tentative | |
| Maybe you are right. I tend to agree. I suppose so. I agree to some extent. I agree with some reservations | I am not sure you are right. I tend to disagree. Do you really think so? Is that such a good idea? I doubt it. |
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| Task 3. Make up three short dialogs with any three collocations from the previous task. | | | JIG SAW READING |