Choose the underlined word combination that is incorrect.

1. A - requires

2. B- suggests

3. B - booklets

4. D – business

5. +

6. A or D (data is/are)

 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ru/словарь/английский/data

7. C - son-in-laws sons -in-law

8. B – in a number

9. D - travels

10. B – sheep

11.C - woman women - managers

 

Exercise 4

Render the following into English:

1. His wages are very high but his needs are great too.

2. In this article you will find the latest data about the way income per capita has changed over the past few months as well as exports and imports of Italy. (exports - объём экспорта (итоговая стоимость вывезенных товаров)

3. Economics of Labor deals with the problems of labour markets, examines data on the activities of the companies, their employees and society as a whole.

4.?

5.?

6. Statistics (статистические данные) confirm that in recent years the number of families with two children has decreased and some families no children at all for money reasons.

7. It is well known that alumni need advice and assistance in job-hunting.

8. Most of these clothes look perfect. 

9. I bought this watch in the Hague. It is very good, but expensive.

10. This news is very interesting. The mass media shouldn’t know the contents of the letter.

11.?

PRACTICE WITH ARTICLES, DEMONSTRATIVES

AND OTHER DETERMINERS

 

Exercise 1

Write the correct article (“a”, “an”, or “the”). If no article is needed, write “-”.

1. Although a job seeker would be considered part of the labor force, she wouldn't qualify as an employee.

2. Labor is people that you pay and they do a job.

3. The young have unlimited wants and limited resources.

4. When someone seen aslabour is being removed, it is easy, as though they

were simply discarding adefective tool. Removing an employee is harder

because you remove abit ofculture when you remove amember.

5. The unemployment rate is defined as the level of unemployment divided by the labour force.

6. Human resources are people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, or economy.

7. The human-resources department of anorganization performs human resource

management.

8. I’ve been thinking of that scheme of yours to sell our products to.the. Netherlands. They say.the. Dutch are going to raise their imports rapidly.

9. The workforce of a country includes both the employed and the unemployed.

10. The number of sources of skilled labour you can rely upon is decreasing.

11. A lot of goods are transshipped via.the. Hague, which is more expensive

12. The United States does not currently require that employees have access to paid sick days to address their own short-term illnesses or the short-term illness of a family member.

13. W orkers who choose to go to work sick may risk passing the illness to customers.

Exercise 2

If the underlined word or words are used incorrectly, make correction.

1. More people are involved in silk production than in any other activity in the district.

2. Later young people learn another lesson.

3. Employment agreement is a contract in which one person agrees to perform

work for the other another person.

4. On another the other hand, such an occupation does not need any extensive training.

5. Teaching is yet another action called service.

6. The interlocutor’s reaction shows he listens intently to what the other

person says.

7. Labour can develop skills and experience in various ways, and move from one enterprise to other another.

8. Some methods of the job search are more likely to be successful than

another others.

9. Students in a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Human Resource Management, learn skills related to the effective human resource planning among others.

10. Let’s consider the important impact the given job has on others other people.

11. I disagree with you because I see it another way.

12. I found the Personnel Manager sitting at a table covered with letters

of application and the other papers.

 

Exercise 3

Choose the correct form

1. I know this / that  manager over there.

2. I was shocked by that / those news.

3. That / those language courses at the university are elementary.

4. She offered him a Chinese watch, but he wanted the Swiss one / ones.

5. You want the employer to purchase your abilities rather than that / those

of someone else.

6. Farm workers work on their own farms or that / those of others.

7. This job was boring and I decided to look for a more inspiring one / ones.

8. Why are you interested in the position and relate your interests to that / those of the company?

9. What are other types of employees besides major one / ones?

 

Exercise 4

Possessives …

1. ÖIs this the manager’s file?

2. ÖDo you know John’s last name?

3. Here is the Harper’s address.

4. ÖThe answers to the questions depend on a country’s human, natural, and capital resources, and also on its customs and valuesю

5. ÖWhat is the general relationship between a person’s education and that individual’s earning power?

6. ÖWhat’s the Wilsons’ address?

7. It’s a foolish idea of John Morse’s.

8. ÖWhere is that secretary of Peter’s?

9. I’ve got a week’s sick leave.

10. A persons’s employment status defines the rights and responsibilities that an employee has at work

 

Exercise 5

Supply a/an, the or “-”.

1. Mr. Buckhurst is an F.C.A.(= Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants).

2. John got a B.Sc. (= Bachelor of Science) from Durham University in 1988.

3. Do you know how much an MP (Member of Parliament) earns?

4. We studied - BASIC (= Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) at the computer class.

5. Does Ukraine belong to - NATO (= North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?

6. The shareholders are invited to attend the A.G.M. (= the Annual General Meeting).

7. - NASA (=National Aeronautics and Space Administration) had a setback in1986.

8. An I.Q. is a common abbreviation for an Intelligence Quotient.

9. The EEC (=the European Economic Community) established common tariffs against products from non-EEC nations.

10. - GATT (=General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) encompassed 22 countries in 1947, later the group expanded to somewhat about 100 countries.

11. The annual report contains a letter to the stockholders from the CEO (the Chief Executive Officer) of the corporation.

 

 

Exercise 1