Applied grammar. (seegrammar reference § 1, 3)

(see GRAMMAR REFERENCE § 1, 3)

Task 14. Give the plural (A) and singular (B) of the following nouns (if they have plural or singular forms) and translate them into Ukrainian. Use a dictionary if necessary:

A. Management, advertisement, company, consumption, productivity, profit, rhythm, promotion, credibility, audience, information, market, possession, planning, soundtrack, value, proud, manager, market share, progress, comfort, competition, sensibility, screen, felt-pen, time-table, zero, ratio, labour, people.

B. Cash, goods, labels, stores, launches, shareholders, factories, circumstan­ces, electronics, matches, reports, consumers, manufacturers, responsibili­ties, notes, brands, organisations, news, graphs, cargoes.

Task 15. Put the verbs in brackets in Present Simple:

1. Great managers (not/act) like dictators. 2. The manager (help) to focus all the resources of the firm. 3. Our company (use) innovative ideas in its activity. 4. science (do/explore) traditional and new management concepts? 5. What function of management (include) setting of the organisational vision, goals and objectives? 6. Organi­sing (mean) designing the organisation structure and staffing. 7. hard work (do/lead) to success? 8. The trend (to be) to give employees as much freedom as possible to become self-managed and self-motivated. 9. Some modern managers (to perform) all of these tasks with the full cooperation and participation of workers. 10. Traditional managers (to direct) the workers in activities to meet the goals and objectives of the organisation.

Task 16. Ask your manager questions about him/her and his/her work:

1. You know that he controls the team activity. You want to know how often. 2. You know that he plans to restructure the team. You want to know when. 3. You know that she wants to delegate some authority to you. You want to know what kind of authority. 4. The workers demand more freedom of operation. You want to know why. 5. You know that his sister is a manager too. You want to know where she works. 6. You don’t know how the computer program works. You want to know. 7. You know that your colleague has a meeting. You want to know if this is really so. 8. You know that he has some interesting books on management. You want to know what books. 9. You do not know how to fulfil the task. You want to know. 10. Your boss plans to go on a business trip. You want to know when.