Business contacts

Personal contacts have become the most efficient means of promoting a better understanding in all spheres of human activity nowadays.

Businessmen usually keep in touch through correspondence or telephone call, but major problems can be solved only through personal meeting. Since a business trip is usually limited in time a businessman takes the arrangements prior to his departure. He can fix an appointment by phone or by cable. It's customary for businessman to draw up a tentative programme. The delegation's stay includes a series of business talks, social meetings, they may have to attend a business lunch or reception given in honour of the delegation.

It's essential to be punctual in business, if you cannot keep the appointment, you should notify your partner in advance and fix a new date.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

V. Find in the text some sentences in the Active Voice, copy them into your exercise books, give simple grammar analysis of these sentences.

VI. Find in the text some sentences in the Passive Voice, copy them into your exercise books, give simple grammar analysis of these sentences.

VII. Find in the text sentences with the Infinitives and define their forms and functions. See Grammar in Use section if necessary.