Dialogue No 2 ( 286 words)

Before you listen to Dialogue No 2 match the expressions in the left column with their translation in the right one.

Listen to Dialogue No 1 between two speakers and answer the questions below. Then listen again and check your answers.

1. What are management trainees supposed to do?

2. What are the keys to company's success according to Managing Director?

3. How can the company keep up its image?

8'Complete the dialogue using the words from the box. There are two words which you don't need to use.

investment, earnings, shares, management, profit, dividends, turnover, capital, image

RICHARD: What does one need to start a business?

FRANK: To start a business, you need______(1)_____ - that is, money. You can borrow it; or you can sell parts of your company - equal parts, of course. These are called ______(2)_____and the people who buy them become share­holders.

RICHARD: Why do the shareholders buy the shares?

FRANK: They expect to get something in return for their ______ (3) _______. If the company does well, it pays _______(4)______ on each share. The value of the shares (of a public company) can rise, so that their market price is often much higher than the amount printed on the share certificate - though it may fall below it if the company does badly.

RICHARD: Why do serious investors read the financial press?

' FRANK: They want to know not only the share prices but the company's ______ (5) ______, and the company's ______(6)_______, and the result of dividing that amount by the number of shares which is called______(7)______ per share.

RICHARD: You seem to know everything about company business. Thank you for information.

1. Managing Director

2. General Manager

3. Financial Director

4. Personnel Manager

5. Training Manager

6. administrative department

7. research and deve­lopment department

8. production division

9. finance department

10. planning department

11. purchasing depart­ment

12. accountant

13. chairman

14. report to

15. employ

a. директор по вопросам обу­чения персонала

b. плановый отдел

c..директор предприятия

d. председатель

e. производственный отдел

f. финансовый директор

g. отдел научно-исследова­тельских и опытно-конст­рукторских работ

h. бухгалтер

i. нанимать на работу

j. административный отдел

k. финансовый отдел начальник

l. отдела кадров

m. генеральный директор п.

n. отчитываться перед кем-л. о.

o. отдел закупок

John Knox, the General Manager of the factory, is speak­ing with the journalist presenting the company on TV channel.

PRESENTER: Today we are talking to John Knox about the structure of TMN Ltd. John is the General Manager of the branch factory. John, do you think you could tell us some­thing about the way TMN is actually organized?

JOHN KNOX: Yes, certainly. We employ about two thou­sand people all in all two different locations. Most people work here at our headquarters plant. And this is of course where we have the administrative departments.

PRESENTER: Perhaps you could say something about the departmental structure?

JOHN KNOX: Well, yes. First of all we've got different divisions. There's the production division which, as the name suggests, is responsible for production operations. And as you know we've got two factories. Oh, and I forgot to mention the most impor­tant division of all. That's finance division. The Financial Director is Fred Samuels. He's a very important man. And his task is to make sure the money-side of things is going all right. The accountant and such people, they report to him directly.

PRESENTER: Is that all?

JOHN KNOX: Oh no, no, there's personnel division.

PRESENTER: Yes.

JOHN KNOX: That's quite separate. David Brown is Personnel Manager. And the Training Manager reports to him of course.

PRESENTER: What about Research and Development? Isn't that a separate department?

JOHN KNOX: Well, in terms of the laboratories, there are two at each production plant.

PRESENTER: Are there any other features worth mentioning?

JOHN KNOX: Now there's the planning department. Ray Wood is in charge of that. And a purchasing department where they buy in the materials for production.

PRESENTER: Yes, and what about the board of directors

and the chairman? JOHN KNOX: Yes, well, they're at the top, aren't they? The

Managing Director, of course, that's Ernest Roberts and then...

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