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Warm-up

Before you start reading the unit think and try to answer the following questions:

1. What types of enterprises can be referred to transnational corporations?

2. Why are transnational corporations so widespread in the world?

3. Why do TNCs take the leading position in the labour productivity and the quality of the output?

Rapid Reading (skimming, scanning, reading for general understanding

Of the basic Text 22.4)

Work in pairs or in small groups.

Skim the text quickly to find out what companies the UN experts refer to transnational corporations.

Discuss it in a group.

2. Scan the text to find the abbreviations. What do they mean?

Skim the text again to find the data on the percentage ratio of the branch (sector) structure of

TNCs. Tell your partner about it.

Tell the group whether the information obtained has extended your knowledge of the given

Issue.

Basic Text. Modern Industrial Globalization

In the middle of the 1990s there were about 40,000 transnational corporations (TNCs) in the

World. They controlled 250,000 subsidiary enterprises outside their countries of origin. Over the