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Consumer choices




Read the text

A glimpse of Great Britain. Stand a good chance for English.

Read the article without a dictionary, try to retell it.

At leisure

Grammar exercises

VII. Write questions to which underlined words are the answers
(§ 12).

1. Yes, the XXth century physics solved many important problems. 2. Many scientists work on the problem of alternative fuel.

3. No, I do not know anything about the latest achievements in this field.

4. Uranium is mostly used as an atomic fuel. 5. The engine of the atomic ice-breaker is powered by atomic energy. 6. Yes, he visited Great Britain last summer. 7. No, I haven`t seen the new Australian film. 8. The first world`s atomic power station was put into operation in 1954. 9. Our director had received many foreign delegations by last autumn. 10. He was asked about the capacity of the new reactor.

VIII. Supply the correct forms of the verbs (§11). Translate the
sentences.

1. We did not know that they already (to determine) the date of the meeting. 2. We were told that they (to encourage) research in this field. 3. Who told you that they (to be worried) about the transportation of the goods? 4. He told us that he (to have) little experience in working as an economist. 5. She said that once she (to be) to London. 6. I did not know that they (to attend) this seminar last year.


Word origin COMPANY: eats bread with you

The term company cor responds to companion and this in turn derives from the Latin words cum, «with», and panis, «bread». A companion, then, is one who eats bread with you, a «messmate», and when you have company at your house they share your hospitality. In its business use the romantic associations of the word company drained off.

2. Read and translate the proverbs, think of Russian equivalents, give a situation using the m.

— Every man has his hobby-horse.

— To go through fire and water.

Don’t miss all expressions you can hear in films, on TV and radio and every where you can hear native speakers speak natural English.

Don’t rely on your books as the only way of learning English. You need to read as much as possible, listen to as much as possible. Go online and read some blogs, listen to music, make some friends.

Look after yourself!

Unit 7

Pre-text exercises

1. Find the transcription of new words in a dictionary: thirsty, worry,
rational, purchase, alternative, budget, constraint, utility, marginal,
chocolate.

Try to read them fluently.

2. Word-building
Compile and translate:
To satisfy υ. + -tion →
Margin n. + -al →


It’s a hot summer day. You’ve been out walking all morning and you’re getting thirsty. It’s also about lunchtime, and you’re feeling pretty hungry, too. What luck! Here’s a kiosk selling snacks. You’ve got six euros to spend. You can buy bars of chocolate or bottles of water... or a combination of both. Now you’ve got another problem: consumer choice.

If you’re a neoclassical economist, however, there’s nothing to worry about. Neoclassical economists believe that consumers make rational choices. Before a consumer buys something, they think about the cost and the amount of satisfaction the purchase will give them. They then compare the price and satisfaction of possible alternative purchases. In the end, they buy what gives them maximum satisfaction at the lowest cost.

So, what will you buy from the kiosk? An important deciding factor is the amount you have to spend. Economists call this your budget constraint. Your total budget is six euros. Bottles of water are two euros each, chocolate bars are one euro each. You could buy three bottles of water, or you could buy six chocolate bars. Or, you could buy any combination that adds up to your total budget. Economists call these combinations of goods bundles. But which is the best bundle? This depends on something called utility. Utility is the economists’ word for the satisfaction we get from a purchase. Each good has its own utility value for the consumer. The utility of a bundle depends on two things: the utility of the goods in the bundle, and how much of each good is in the bundle.

Many things can affect the utility of a good. These include the cost of the good, the consumer’s income and something called marginal utility.

To understand marginal utility, just think about chocolate bars. Every time you consume a bar of chocolate, the satisfaction you get from the next bar will be less. In other words, you get less utility every time you eat another bar. This decrease in utility is called the marginal utility bundle.


Words:

consumer choice — выбор purchase – покупка

потребителя budget constraints — бюджетные

to be thirsty — испытывать ограничения

жажду bundle — набор, корзина

snack — закуска (товаров)

chocolate bar — плитка шоколада utility — полезность

to worry — беспокоиться marginal utility — предельная

to believe — верить полезность

Post-text exercises

Working on the text

I. Find answers in the text:

I. What is consumer choice? 2. Is your choice always rational? 3. Does it take you a lot of time to choose things you need? 4. Is your consumer choice limited by money you have? 5. What is your budget constraint? 6. Is a goods bundle the same for different consumers? 7. On what does utility depend? 8. What things can affect the utility of goods? 9. Will your utility increase with every next thing you’ll get? 10. Does your income influence your utility?

II.Complete the sentences as in the text:

1. Before a consumer buys something he thinks about…

2. An important deciding factor when you buy things is the
amount…

3. Utility is satisfaction we get…

4. The utility of a bundle depends on …

5. You get less utility every time you…




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