i With the past simple we use time adverbs like:
| at | at ten oclock / at the end of the month / at the weekend |
| in | in the morning / in July / in 2001 / in the 1980s / in the summer |
| on | on Tuesday / on Tuesday afternoon / on the tenth of March / on the 24th |
| no preposition | yesterday / a few days ago / last week / when I was young |
A Complete each sentence with a verb: become, decide, finish, get, put, renovate and a time adverb: at2, in2, on2.
1 We to have the conference call .. Friday morning.
2 I worked hard last year and I a good bonus .. December.
3 We . the meeting . seven oclock in the evening.
4 They say they the money in our account .. the 21st.
5 We .. the building .. the beginning of the year.
6 Klaus Kleinfeld .. chief executive of Siemens . 2005.
B Complete this article by putting the verbs into the past simple. Some are Irregular.
SAMSUNG: from dried fish to high tech
In 1938 Byung-Chull Lee (1) (start) a business in Korea called Samsung.
He (2) (sell) vegetables and dried fish to China. Ten years later he (3) (have) his own manufacturing and sales operations, and the business (4) (grow) quickly. Over the new few decades Samsung (5) . (buy) several insurance companies and department stores.
In the 1970s Samsung (6) .. (invest) in heavy industries like chemicals and shipbuilding, but then in the 1980s they (7) .. (begin) to focus more on technology and electronic products.
In 1987 Kun-Hee Lee (8) (take) the place of his father as Chairman of the company.
In 1988 he (9) (announce) the Second Foundation of the company, directing Samsung towards becoming a world-class 21st century corporation.
VOCABULARY BOOSTER
A Look at this list of words. Match pairs of words, as in the example, to make the expressions defined below.
| sales | annual | company | development |
| office | human | research | marketing |
| stock | market | resources | managing |
| head | parent | director | production |
| site | public | relations | turnover |
1 a department in charge of finding new ideas
research + development +Research and Development
2 a person in charge of a company
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3 a film which owns subsidiaries
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4 a department in charge of finding and increasing the number of customers
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5 a factory or a plant
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6 department in charge of recruitment, training and personnel
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7 the administrative and central building of a company
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8 the value of a public company is quoted* here
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9 the total sales of a company for a year
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10 the department of a company which is in charge of external communication
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*is quoted
B Read the text and choose the correct answer to the questions:
SBS
SBS stands for Siemens Business Services. It is a division of the famous German company Siemens. It is only about five years old but is already responsible for a considerable part of Siemens turnover. How? Siemens had the idea in 1995. A whole department of Siemens was at the time responsible for the information and communication activities of Siemens. The idea was to offer this service not only inside the company but outside too. SBS is now one of the worlds leading providers in the area of electronic business solutions and services.
Friedrich Froeschl is the CEO and SBS is now an independent division with 33,000 employees in 88 countries and turnover of £5.8 billion. One of its largest customers is the British government. SBS organizes and manages the passports and national savings accounts for Britain. In Europe its main competitors are IBM, Cap Gemini, and EDS. With growth in this market of at least 15% the future looks bright for this German service company.
1 What is the activity of SBS?
a electronic engineering
b printing
c database management
2 Which company does Friedrich Froeschl manage?
a Siemens Business Services
b Siemens
c IBM
3 One of its largest customers is:
a EDS
b SBS
c the British government
4 5.8 billion represents:
a Siemens turnover
b SBSs turnover
c SBSs profit
5 SBS manages electronic services for:
a IBM
b British passports
c 88 countries
6 SBS is:
a a branch of Siemens
b a department of Siemens
c a division of Siemens
C Find words in the Siemens text which match these definitions:
1 annual sales ..
2 clients .
3 companies in the same market ..
4 a document for traveling from one country to another ..
5 an increase .
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