1. There were hundreds of people in the square.
2. Kenya is still paying off a multimillion-dollars loan to the IMF.
3. Two third of the field was under water.
4. Six hundred thousands people were left homeless after the earthquake.
5. Richard is on the top floor, in room eight hundred and two.
6. May I take your telephone number? Certainly. Its two hundred and forty-five, sixty-five, double seven.
7. We expect a five and a half per cent wage increase.
8. This watch normally retails at sixty hundred pounds, but I got it for only three hundreds fifty-five.
9. They are firing almost quarter of the workforce.
10. The phone rang at half past four oclock in the morning.
11. In the early thirty of the last century this hotel was very popular with tourists.
12. The city spent one million and two hundreds dollars for snow removal last year.
13. The companys profits rose by eleven per cents in the first quarter of the year.
14. A centimeter is about two-fives of an inch, or nought point three nine four inches to be exact.
15. Two per cents of the British population owned ninety per cent of the countrys wealth in nineteen and ninety-two.
Ex.17. Translate the following word combinations into English.
. 20 , 350 , , 3/5;
33 , 2 ½ , , 1/4 , 60 ;
500 , 501, 47 , 2,65 , 0,65 ;
B. , , , ;
, , , ;
- , ,
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C. 60 , 2 , 4 , 500 , 5 ;
D. , , ' , /
Ex.18. Translate into English. Write the numbers in words.
1. .
2. 2\3 .
3. ʳ 303 .
4. ҳ , 1,300 .
5. . 2.933 2,943?
6. 200,000.
7. , .
8. 1900 15% , 1970 73,5%.
9. - -10.
10. ? , 3572 637 622.
11. ̳ 15.30. 12.30 . .
12. , - 20 .
13. 701,266,000.
14. 22,000 2015 .
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15. , The Financial Times 12,4%.
Unit 8. TAXES
| TEXT A: Taxes TEXT B: Taxation in the UK TEXT C: Taxes are good BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: In company GRAMMAR: Pronouns. Adjectives. Adverbs. Comparison |
People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes:
Men and women.
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LEAD-IN
1. What are the main goods and services that any government provides to its citizens? If these things were owned by private companies, we would be charged a fee for using them. What could happen if someone could not afford fire protection, or trash collection, or national defence?
2. Where do governments get the money to pay for all these goods and services?
3. Make a list of different types of taxes you can think of. If you do not know their actual names, try to describe what they are paid for.
4. What do you think a good tax may mean?
PRE-TEXT EXERCISES
A. Reading drills
