Учебное пособие составлено на основе учебной программы курса английского языка для студентов экономических факультетов, вузов и колледжей и рассчитано на 120 аудиторных часов. Цель пособия - развитие навыков чтения профессионально ориентированных текстов, совершенствование коммуникативных навыков устной и письменной речи на основе текстов по прикладной экономике.

Рекомендовано Учебно-методическим центром "Классический учебник".

ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ
CHAPTER 1
Unit l
Text 1: What is Economics?
Exercises
Check your grammar: Indefinite Form
Text 2: The First Modern Economists
Speech Practice and Business:
Meeting People and Saying Good-dye
Unit 2
Text 1: Demand and Supply
Exercises
Check your grammar: Continuous Form
Text 2: Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations
Speech Practice and Business:
Making Invitations
Unit3
Text 1: Launching a Business
Exercises
Check your grammar: Perfect Form
Text 2: Successful Entrepreneurs
Speech Practice and Business:
Asking the Way
Unit 4
Text: Introduction to Foreign Trade
Exercises
Check your grammar: Perfect Continuous Form
Text 2: David Ricardo: Classical Champion of Free
Trade
Speech Practice and Business:
At the Airport. Customs
Unit 5
Text 1: Capital
Exercises
Check your grammar: Future Tenses
Text 2: Prosperity Decade
Speech Practice and Business:
Post Office. Writing Correspondence
Unit6
Text: The Role of Government
Exercises
Check your grammar: Modal Verbs
Text 2: The Great Depression
Speech Practice and Business:
Telephone Calls
CHAPTER 2
Unit 1
Text 1: Money: Its Functions and Characteristics. Price
Exercises
Check your grammar: Passive Voice
Text 2: Irving Fisher: Pioneer in Monetary Theory
Speech Practice and Business:
Looking for a Job. Letter of Application
Unit 2
Text 1: National Wealth. Labour and Employment
Exercises
Check your grammar: Verbals. The Infinitive
Text 2: John Maynard Keynes:
Theorist Who Brought Economics into the Twenties
Century
Speech Practice and Business:
Curriculum Vital
Unit3
Text I: Market Economy
Exercises
Check your grammar: The Participles I and Ц
Text 2: Thorstein Veblen: Critic of the Market System
Speech Practice and Business: A Job Interview
Unit 4
Text 1: Planned Economy. Mixed Economies
Exercises
Check your grammar: The Gerund
Text 2: Frank Knight: Defender of the Market System
Speech Practice and Business:
Bussines Meeting
Unit5
Text 1: Banking
Exercises
Check your grammar: Conditionals
Text 2: Who Are Currency Speculators?
Speech Practice and Business:
Bussines Correspondence
Unit 6
Text 1: International Monetary System
Exercises
Check your grammar: Conditionals (continued)
Text 2: What Is the Gold Standard?
Speech Practice and Business:
Talking about Companies
APPENDIX
ADDITIONAL TEXTS
Text 1: The USA: Where Does Paper Money and Coin
Come from?
Text 2: Measuring Economic Activity
Text 3: What Are the Causes of Inflation?
Text 4: The Underground Economy
Text 5: Learning to Use Advertising
Text 6: Alfred Marshall (1842-1924): Price Theory
Pioneer
Text 7: Karl Marx (1818-1883): Prophet of Socialism
and Communism ..
GRAMMAR REFERENCE AND EXERCISES
Система видо-временных форм английского глагола
Времена группы Indefinite (Simple)
Времена группы Continuous
Времена группы Perfect
Времена группы Perfect Continuous
Некоторые способы выражения будущего времени
в английском языке
Модальные глаголы
Страдательный залог
Неличные формы глагола. The Infinitive
The Participle
The Gerund
Условные предложения (три типа)
Условные предложения, образованные из
элементов
второго и третьего типов
Irregular Verbs
List of reference books