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Unit 6. Company History and Life Stories.

Language review – Past Indefinite. Tense Passive Voice

1.Here are the base forms of fifteen verbs. Write in the past tense forms:

become	more	sell
begin	meet	get
a quire	set	found
die	be	cross
agree	go	buy

Read and translate this article about two famous men. Learn the words and expressions.

Henry Royce was born in 1863 in Petersborough. Charles Rolls was born in London in 1877. Royce was the son of a miller and Rolls was the son of an aristocrat. Royce began to work at the age of ten. He sold newspapers for a few months, then got a job as an apprentice engineer with YNR, one of the railway companies in Britain. A few years later he moved to London and worked for an electric company. In 1884 he was made redundant and he founded his own company. Royce sold dynamos and other electric devices to factories and cotton mills. He became rich and bought his first car. It didn’t work very well so Royce decided to produce cars himself. At the same time Charles Rolls was a student at Cambridge university. In 1890s he went to France and bought his first car a Peugeot. In 1902 he started his own company selling cars. At the same time he was a champion driver and the following year he set a new world speed record. Rolls loved cars but he really wanted to have his own name on a car and in 1904 he met Henry Royce. They agreed to set up the Rolls-Royce company. Two years later the company produced the Silver Shadow. The same year Rolls crossed the English Channel by hot air balloon. He loved speed. Unfortunately four years later he died in a flying accident. Royce continued producing cars. In 1931 Rolls-Royce acquired another company Bently. Royce died in 1933 at the age of seventy.

miller	мельник, мукомол
apprentice engineer	инженер-стажер
to make redundant	уволить (в связи с сокращением)
cotton mill	фабрика, перерабатывающая хлопок
to acquire	приобретать

1. Are these sentences true (T) or fulse (F)?

1. Royce was older than rolls.

2. Rolls and Royce were students together at Cambridge.

3. Royce set a world record in 1903.

4. Rolls died before Royce.

5. Rolls-Royce was bought by Bently.

Answer the questions.

I. When was H. Royce born?

II. When did he begin to work?

III. Where did he move?

IV. Who did Royce work for in London?

V. What year was he made redundant?

VI. When did he found his own company?

VII. What were the company activities?

VIII. Why did Royce decide to produce cars himself?

Ask some questions about Charles Rolls.

Make passive sentences using the verbs in brackets, as in example.

Ex. Electricity (discover) in the 1880. Electricity was discovered in the 1880s.

1. H.R. Royce (found) in 1884.

2. Rolls and Royce (be born) in the nineteenth century.

3. Rolls-Royce (create) in 1904.

4. The R-R Silver Shadow (produce) in 1906.

5. A new world record (set) in 1903.

6. Rolls (kill) in a flying accident.

7. Bently (acquire) in 1931.

Make questions for these answers.

1. He was born in Peterborough. Where …

2. He was made redundant in 1884. When …

3. Bently was acquired in 1931. What year …

4. He was killed in a flying accident. How …

Read the text and make passive sentences.

1955 - Ray Kroc opened his first restaurant in Illinois. He bought the name from two brothers called McDonald.

1963 - Ray Kroc started advertising on TV.

1965 - The company moved to New York and its head office was on Wall Street.

1967 - Kroc opened his first restaurants outside the US in Canada and Puerto Rico.

1968 - Kroc launched his most famous product, the “Big Mac”.

1979 - The company introduced a new idea – the “Happy Meal” a special manu for children.

1984 - Ray Kroc died.

at the start of 90s - The company opened its restaurant in Belarus, the hundredth country to have such a restaurant.

1995 - McDonald’s, acquired the Italian fast food chain Burghy.

1996 - The company opened restaurants in Moscow and Peking

Unit 7. Giving news about company’s Recent Results.

Language Review:

Present Perfect Tense

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