| Infinitive | Simple Past | Past Participle | Translation |
| become | became | become | , |
| bring | brought | brought | , |
| buy | bought | bought | , |
| cost | cost | cost | |
| drive | drove | driven | , , |
| let | let | let | ; |
| lie | lay | lain | |
| show | showed, shown | shown | ; |
| pay | paid | paid | ; |
| think | thought | thought | ; |
| write | wrote | written |
Exercise 39 Use the words in the box once each to complete the paragraph below.
| produce, products, production, productivity producer, produce, productive, unproductive |
A few years ago, Harry Coes, a large ______ of tinned food ______, decided that some of their workers were not ______ enough. Much of the work of preparing fruit and vegetables was done on rows of tables rather than on a ______ line. So they decided to introduce a piecework system, whereby workers got paid according to the amount of work they completed. The company thought that this would motivate previously ______ workers, and thereby increase ______. Yet the new pay scheme did not ______ the results they expected: after six months they were still processing the same amount of agricultural ______, but there was a lot of dissatisfaction among the workers who were now all earning different amounts of money.
Exercise 40 Match the following words with their definitions.
| 1. price 2. trade 3. income 4. labour 5. business 6. capital 7. supply 8. advertising 9. profit 10.shortage | a) willingness and ability to offer goods and services for sale b) money that you earn from your job or that you receive from investments c) money or property used to produce wealth d) the sum of money for which something is bought, sold, or offered e) money that you gain from selling something, or from doing business after taking away costs f) the act of buying and selling goods and services on markets g) telling people publicly about a product or service in order to persuade them to buy it h) deficit or lack in the amount needed i) establishment, such as a firm or factory or commercial activity j) work involving physical or mental efforts |
Exercise 41 Change the italicized words into the synonyms given in the box below.
| sale purchase fix effect shortage cause trading business impose |
To buy goods and services, a lack of money, a dangerous occupation, to regulate prices, to tax incomes, to make the price settle, to have an influence on smth, the selling of goods, to be engaged in commerce.
