Writing

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 521.

Project work

Work in a team of three or four students. With your team:

1. Choose a real company or business organisation that interests you. It may be a well-known company abroad or any company inside the country or in your region or in your city.

2. Find as much information as you can about:

• its form of ownership (e.g. private or public corporation, sole trader, partnership);

• its main businessactivities;

• location of its head office, branches/subsidiaries;

• its facilities and production caoacity;

• turnover, profits, investments in R&D, size of work-force, etc.;

• any other necessary information about the organisation.

3. Analyse the company's performance and activities and discuss the results of your research in the team.

4. Make a presentation of the company and your findings to the rest of the class.

5. Hold a Questions & Answers (Q&A) session.

1. Production at Premexum 2011

Notice how the paragraph below uses information both from the bar chart illustrating the scheduled production at Premexum in 2011, and from the table which shows the actual production for this period and the reasons for deviations from the schedule. Pay attention to linking words.

The Premexum factory had been scheduled to produce 30,000 units in January; but, because of a strike at a components supplier, it was able to produce a total of only 10,000 units. In February, the number of units produced amounted to 30,000, i.e. 10,000 fewer than scheduled. This was due to a number of technical problems connected with the power supply to the factory. In the third month, production totaled 45,000 units, which was 5,000 more than the figure which had been planned. This was owing to the overtime which had been worked for the purpose of building up stocks.

Scheduled Production at Premexum 2011

Actual Production at Premexum 2011