Texas Instruments

II. Read and translate the text.

XI. Speak about your friend.

X. Write a story about your friend using the following plan.

IX. Insert correct prepositions where necessary.

VIII. Open the brackets and use the correct tense form.

VII. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.

VI. Complete the sentences with the information from the text.

1. Pierre and Sylvana moved to Oxford and …

2. Sylvana found it difficult to …

3. Sylvana’s friend in Lugano happily showed her how …

4. Her chocolates were praised by everybody, because she used …

5. One day they contacted a famous …

6. Sylvana and Pierre are ambitious and would like to …

1. The restaurant was very successful.

2. Sylvana’s friend owned a large chocolate factory.

3. She used top-quality ingredients for her chocolates.

4. The chocolates were praised by all who tasted them.

5. The chocolates are selling well in the UK.

6. They would like to expand into Europe.

1. They need help, because they (to move) to a new apartment.

2. Everybody (to praise) their chocolates because they are of high quality.

3. Mr.Fitzgerald (to own) a big company some years ago.

4. Our President (to contact) the manager of that company last month.

5. The director (to examine) very important documents at the moment.

6. They (to sell) their chocolates in many shops of the town.

1. Sylvana is … Italian origin.

2. In 1980, they moved … Oxford.

3. The idea of establishing their own business came … chance.

4. The firm’s chief buyer expressed interest … their product.

5. They left the buyer’s office … an order … 30 kilos.

6. Sylvana and Pierre would like to expand … Europe as soon as possible.

Place of birth:

Place of education:

Main subjects at school/University:

Date of finishing education:

First job:

Starting date of first job:

Date of joining present company:

Date of starting present job:

Вариант 4

I. Active vocabulary:

to found – основывать, создавать

a turnover – товарооборот

staff – штат служащих

to grow (grew-grown) – расти

exploration – исследование, изучение

to look for – искать

a division – отдел, подразделение

rapidly – быстро

retirement – отставка, уход на пенсию

to attend – посещать

a Master’s degree – степень магистра

to design – разрабатывать, конструировать

a steam turbine – паровая турбина

a device – устройство, прибор

Over 60 years ago a British-born businessman, Cecil H Green, helped to found Texas Instruments, one of North America’s largest and most important electronics companies. The company today has a turnover of about $8 billion, and more than 400,000 staff.

Texas Instruments was established in 1941; it grew out of an oil exploration company, Geophysical Service. Green joined the company in 1932 and spent several years looking for oil in Texas. With the start of the Second World War, the company’s electronics division grew rapidly. Green and three colleagues bought the business in 1941 for $300,000. It was renamed Texas Instruments in 1951. Green was a director until his retirement in 1975.

Cecil Howard Green was born near Manchester, England. His father, Charles, and mother, Maggie, immigrated to Canada when Green was less than two years old, and the family often moved through the USA and Canada as Charles looked for work.

Green attended high school in Vancouver and entered the University of British Columbia in 1918. He completed his studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston with a Master’s degree in electrical engineering. His first job was to design steam turbine generators for the General Electric Company but in two years he left to join the Raytheon Manufacturing Company to work on small electronics devices.

Between 1928 and 1932, Green worked for a number of engineering companies before the final move to Geophysical Service.

Cecil Howard Green died in 2003 at the age of 102.

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