Питання для самоконтролю

1. What is capital in economics?

2. What are the three factors of production in classical economics?

3. Which way is capital defined?

4. How many forms of capital are recognized?

5. What is financial capital?

6. What is physical capital?

7. How is money capital raised?

8. In which way are capital goods similar to savings?

9. What is the capital of a business firm in an accounting sense?

10. What items belong to “real” assets?

11. Who developed the earliest theory of capital?

12. What does the earliest theory of capital mean?

Завдання до самостійної роботи

Роботу над завданнями самостійної роботи з теми 6 слід здійснювати паралельно, виконуючи всі завдання, надані в методичних рекомендаціях. Завдання самостійної роботи необхідно виконувати в спеціальному зошиті. Загальна сума балів за виконання ситуаційних вправ самостійної роботи – 9,5.

Ситуація 1. Деяким людям до вподоби точні формулювання, у такому разі вони наступні вислови замінять на інші. (Оцінюється в 3 бали)

послуги, готові вироби, робоча сила, споживання, капітал, товари виробничого призначення, товари, інвестиція, машини, виробництво, фірма, накопичення, доход, облігація

1. Things that are produced in order to be used or sold are…… ……… .

2. The process of making or growing things to be sold as products, usually in large quantities, is known as……………….

3. …………… is a business that involves selling help and advice, or delivering goods etc for customers, rather than manufacturing goods.

4. Wealth, especially a large amount of money used for producing more wealth or for starting a new business serves as………………..

5. All the people who work for a company or in a country are……………

6. Land has always been a good …………………..

7. ………….. are goods such as machinery, equipment etc used by business to produce other goods.

8. Money that is kept in a bank to be used later or invested, rather than spent is……………………. .

9. ……………….. is the amount of goods, services, energy, or natural materials used in a particular period of time.

10. Equipment that uses power such as electricity or petrol is commonly referred to as …………. .

11. Goods that have been made completely and are ready to be sold are registered as ……………. .

12. ………. is an official paper given by the government or a company to show that you have lent them money that they will pay to you at an interest rate that does not change.

13. A …………….. is a company, especially one that provides a service rather than goods, for example financial or legal services.

14. Money that you earn from your job or that you receive from investments is known as …………….. .

Ситуація 2. Людина, яка повідомляє наступну інформацію, часом, не може згадати деякі англійські слова. Допоможіть їй/йому знайти їх. (Оцінюється в 3 бали)

Capital in economics, …………. (запас ресурсів) that may be (використаний)…………………… in the production of goods and services. In classical economics it is one of the three (факторів виробництва) …………., the others being labour and land.

Capital may be so broadly (визначений) ………….. as to include all possible material, nonmaterial, and (людські затрати) ……………….. into a productive system, but it is usually more useful to confine the term to (матеріальні активи) …………………. in the hands of (виробничих підприємств) …………. . Money, or rather (фінансовий капітал)…………………… is a fluid, (нематеріальна)………………. form used for investment. Another term is (товари виробничого призначення)……………………. that mean real or physical capital – are (матеріальні предмети)……………….. such as buildings, machinery and equipment produced and used in the (виробництві)…………… of other goods and services. Money capital is raised by selling (акцій)……………and (облігацій) ……………… in order to finance (придбання) ……………. of real capital or capital goods.

In accounting sense, the capital of a business firm is that part of the (чистої вартості)……………… that has not been produced by the (діяльності) ………………. of the enterprise, or, in other words, the original stock of (чистих активів) …………. of the firm before any (дохід) ……………… is earned.

Ситуація 3. У вас невдалий день і ви маєте сумнів у всьому, тому самим помітним словом у вас є “may” чи “might”. У реченнях 9-15 використайте заперечну форму. (Оцінюється в 3,5 бали)

1. Perhaps Margaret is in her office. She might be in her office.

2. Perhaps Margaret is busy. __________________________________

3. Perhaps she is working. __________________________________

4. Perhaps she wants to be alone. __________________________________

5. Perhaps she was ill yesterday. __________________________________

6. Perhaps she went home early. __________________________________

7. Perhaps she had to go home early. __________________________________

8. Perhaps she was working yesterday. __________________________________

9. Perhaps she doesn’t want to see me. __________________________________

10. Perhaps she isn’t working today. __________________________________

11. Perhaps she wasn’t feeling well yesterday. _____________________________

12. Perhaps Ann will not come to the party. _____________________________

13. Perhaps I will not go out this evening. _____________________________

14. Perhaps Tom will not like the present I bought for him. ______________

15. Perhaps Sue will not be able to meet us this evening. ________________

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