Forms of businesses in the USA

Тема: Частное предпринимательство в США

Цель урока: учебная – формирование лексических навыков и совершенствования грамматических навыков (задачи: выучить новые лексические единицы; задачи по грамматике);

                      познавательная – познакомить студентов с формами предпринимательства в CША;

                      развивающая – развитие монологической речи.

1. Вопросы к тексту по теме «Incorporation» (регистрация юридического лица)

1. How do we call a person who registers companies in the UK?

2. What documents should you deliver to register your company?

3. What types of companies do you know?

4. What is the difference between a public limited company and a private limited company?

5. What should the Registrar issue if the Registrar incorporated your company?

6. What information does the certificate of incorporation contain?

7. Does the Registrar get any fees for his work?

8. How do you understand the expression "deed stamps”? (These are stamps you buy to pay your company’s incorporation)

9. How do you understand the expression "stamp duty on capital” (This is money you pay to the government, the amount you pay depends on the capital of the company).

10. What do you know about London Wall (a street in London, it was a wall built by Romans at that place)

2. Рассказ о своей компании (по теме «Типы предпринимательства в Англии», «Регистрация», «Рабочие часы»)

Пример:

Five years age I decided to incorporate a public limited company with my friends. We worked out the company’s charter, statute, memorandum and went to the Registrar of companies. We paid fees, deed stamps, stamp duty on capital and received a certificate of incorporation.

Now I am a director. We have a lot of shareholders. We can sell our shares at the Stock Exchange. A year ago we incorporated two branches of our company outside Russia. These branches act under the law of Russia. 

Our profits are great. And we pay excellent salaries to our staff. We have 5 employees. They are a secretary, an accountant, a computer engineer. We have two designers as our company deals with advertising. Our staff work from 9 to 5, the lunch time is from 1 to 2. We have a five-day working week. Overtime is common, but we always pay overtime, and our employees don’t take criminal proceedings against us.

Возможные варианты вопросу студенту.

What are your profits?

Are you going to expand your company, to open new branches outside Russia?

Do you have a personnel manager in your company?

How do you approach the problem of recruiting new staff? Do you place job advertisements in newspapers? In what newspapers do you place advertisements?

Do you sell your shares to the public?

What types of shares do you issue?

3. Новая тема: Types of Businesses in the USA

Слова записывать последовательно касательно каждого вида предпринимательской деятельности; далее пытаться связно рассказать о виде деятельности по записанным ключевым словам.

Например:

Individual business has one owner.

Partnerships have several owners. They are partners.

Partners may be general and limited.

In general partnerships partners are liable for all debts.

In limited partnerships partners have a limited liability.

Corporations have many owners. They are stockholders. Stockholders have certificates which show the number of shares which they own. Stockholders elect a director to operate a corporation.

Corporations must receive charters from state authorities. The charters state the powers of the corporation…

4. Прочитать и перевести текст.

Businesses in the USA may be organized as one of the following forms: individual business, general partnership, limited partnership, corporation, alien corporation.

An individual business is owned by one person.

A general partnership has got several owners. They are liable for debts and they share in the profits.

A limited partnership has got at least one general owner and one or more other owners. They have only a limited investment and a limited liability.

A corporation is owned by persons, called stockholders. The stockholders usually have certificates showing the number of shares which they own. The stockholders elect a director or directors to operate the corporation. Most corporations are closed corporations, with only a few stockholders. Other corporations are owned by many stockholders who buy and sell their shares at will. Usually they have little interest in management of the corporation.

Alien corporations are corporations of foreign countries.

All the corporations are to receive their charters from the state authorities. The charters state all the powers of the corporation. Many corporations try to receive their charters from the authorities of the State of Delaware, thought they operate in other states. They prefer the State of Delaware because the laws are liberal there and the taxation is rather low. Such corporations, which receive their charters from an outside state are called foreign corporations.

All the corporations require a certificate to do business in the state where they prefer to operate.

(С.А.Шевелева, В.Е.Стогов «Основы экономики и бизнеса»)

5. Найдите в тексте следующие предложения

1. Владельцы генеральных товариществ несут ответственность по долгам и участвуют в распределении прибыли.

2. Владельцы ограниченных товариществ делают ограниченные инвестиции и несут ограниченную ответственность.

3. Акционеры обычных корпораций мало интересуются вопросами управления корпорации.

4. Акционеры различных корпораций обычно имеют сертификаты, в которых указано количество имеющихся у них акций.

5. Большинство корпораций – корпорации закрытого типа с небольшим числом акционеров.

6. Корпорации должны получить регистрационные документы от властей штата.

7. Корпорации должны получить сертификат в том штате, где они хотят функционировать.

6. Поставьте галочку напротив понятий, связанных с деятельностью в США

sole traders

individual businesses

company

corporation

shareholder

stockholder

7. Прослушать урок о видах предпринимательской деятельности в США

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8. Грамматика

9. Домашнее задание

1. Выполнить перевод

2.

a) Посоветовать другу получить регистрационные документы в штате Делавэр.

(письменно, уметь рассказывать)

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