Financial Institutions (continuation)

7. Вставьте пропущенные слова 

1. Banks specialize in _________________________short-term loans in certain ______________________. (supplying)

2. Insurance companies invest money in government __________, company shares, land, and  _______________ of all kinds. (securities, property)

3. Pension funds may be state and ____________. (private)

4. Self-_____________ people usually contribute to private pension funds. Workers, employees usually _______________to state pensions funds. (employed, contribute)

5. Investment trusts buy shares in other companies which they consider most ____ ________________. (successful)

6. Unit trusts issue ____________ (units)

7. Finance houses finance ______________________ schemes and ___________________ arrangements. (hire-purchase, leasing)

8. Firms which sell goods on ____________________ or who _______________goods do not have to wait two or three years before their goods are fully paid for. (hire-purchase, lease)

9. Our company needs short-term finance to bridge short-term gaps between ______________ and _______________. (expenditure, income)

10. Raw materials and some types of vehicle are __________________assets. (short-lived)

11. It is difficult for us to cover temporary falls in _____________. (demand)

12. Buildings and heavy machinery are ________________assets. (long-lived)

 8. Грамматика

 9. Домашнее задание

1. Выучить слова
2. Уметь рассказывать о финансовых институтах по ключевым словам
3. Прочитать и перевести диалог: «The role of the government»

Julian Amey: I’m Julian Amey working for the Department of Trade (DT), in the export promotions side particularly looking at media education training and telecommunications.

Interviewer: In the Department how much of the time is spent with exports? Is that the majority of the Department’s work, trying to encourage British exports?

Julian Amey: Exports is one of the three key areas of out involvement. Exports, the development of trade, the development of investment is the business of this department.

Inverviewer: And what sort of things can the DT do to encourage investment and trade? What are the general ways in which that’s done?

Julian Amey: Well the main focus of the Dts work at the moment is to provide detailed analysis of the markets, the priority markets I mean. Our aim is to help, particularly the small and medium-sized companies to tackle those markets in an efficient way. There are 80 of them, 80 key markets around the world.

Interviewer: And what do you practically do for them?

Julian Amey: The specific help is that each priority market has a desk officer who’s wholly responsible for providing information about that country. Let’s say Brazil. So you’ll have a Brazil desk officer who can give you all the detailed economic and political information about the market. then he can give you the help of our embassy in Brazil as well.

Interviewer: And how can it be done?

Julian Amey: Our embassies have commercial officers who can give further information about market segments and for example possibly agents who might act for your business.

Interviewer: Oh it’s all very important.