Assignment 15
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 542.
GRAMMAR REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT
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Look through the text again and write down ways to express what each of the following companies is involved in.
| Quad Electroacoustics | |
| Wilkin & Sons | |
| J. Barber & Sons |
Use the information in the text to answer the questions(in written form).
1. Are there many successful large companies in Britain?
2. What began to increase rapidly in the 1980s?
3. Why are those small manufacturing companies in theUK, that make expensive
products, successful?
4. Unfortunately, many small businesses fail to survive, don't they? Why do they
fail to survive?
Turn to the above text again. There are some ideas that have remained uncovered by the questions in the previous Assignment. State these ideas. Ask questions concerning them.
From the text, select those facts and ideas concerning small businesses (in written form).
Say what the text is about. Comment on the content of the text (orally).
Present the general idea of the text in five-six sentences. Do it in written form.
Review the Grammar material«The Perfect Tense Form». Study the charts.
Pay special attention to the adverbs and the words denoting time. They are very often used with this Tense Form. You will find them in the first chart.
The main patterns of the Perfect Tense Form are those presented in the sentences that come next. Study the patterns. Make sure you are familiar with allof them and you know how to translate the sentences from English into Russian.
| Present: already Just, not... yet, ever, never, recently, lately, of late, for, today, since, this (week, month), by now, etc. Past: by (yesterday, last Friday, etc.), hardly (scarcely, barely, nearly) ... when, no sooner ... than, sequence of tenses, etc. Future: by (tomorrow, next week, etc.), etc. |
Since the Second World War Britain's service industries, especially banking and retailing,have expanded.
He has justgiven a considerable part of his income to numerous acts of charity.
I have not seen him since he left our company.
Peoplehave reallybecome better off lately,haven't they?
Joel felt that hehad found a new blend of coffee.
By the 1990s, the investmenthad climbed to more than $400 billion, even though farmshad dropped in number from 6 million to fewer that 3 million.
How longhad youstayed with the firm by the time you resigned?
Hardlyhad theyannounced the dollar devaluation, when the prices started rising.
(Theyhad hardlyannounced the dollar devaluation, when the prices started rising.)
By next morning, the delegationwill have left.
He said (that) by the next month hewould have written his final paper.
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