Grammar Revision: Passive Voice

Exercise 3. Using online grammar reference resources (for example http://www.study.ru) read about passive voice. You can use the following link:http://www.study.ru/support/handbook/verb14.html

 

Exercise 4. Fill in the gaps in the table below:

 

	Active Voice	Passive Voice
Present Simple	support/supports	am/is/are/ supported
Present Continuous		am/is/are being supported
	supported
Past Continuous		was/were being supported
	will support
		have/has been supported
Past Perfect	had supported
		will have been supported
Present infinitive		to be supported
Perfect infinitive	to have supported	to have been supported
·- ing form	supporting	being supported
-ing form (perfect)	having supported	having been supported

 

Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences into Russian.

 

1. Since inception there have been over one hundred rural students at higher education institutions as a consequence of having been supported by the Auscott Undergraduate Scholarship scheme.

2. Сultural heritage research in the EU has been supported and managed within the framework of the environmental research programmes.

3. AFS Company has the opportunity to offer more scholarships than any other exchange organisation being supported by over 40 organisations and individuals.

4. We are privileged to have been supported by the International Foundation for Arts and Culture (IFAC), and in particular Dr Haruhisa Handa, who laid the foundations for a valued and creative cultural exchange programme with Japanese students.

5. By the end of the workshop, students will have an understanding of the planning process and will have been supported to complete a number of projects.

6. Bereaved families were being supported out of a Disaster Fund, which at £1.75m was the second largest ever raised in the UK.

 

Exercise 6. Put the verb into the correct passive form. Translate the sentences.

1. It is important to do as much homework as possible on any potential clients or suppliers before initial contacts (to make).

2. Canadian managers (not to expect) to manage in an authoritarian or paternalistic manner.

3. Management style in Canada could (to characterise) as informal and friendly with managers preferring (to see) as 'one of the guys' rather than as an aloof figure who stands apart from everybody else.

4. Most women in Argentina (to find) in administrative roles or in middle management positions.

5. Although Spanish is the language of Argentina, many Argentinians speak good English, (to educate) internationally.

6. In Australia challenging the ideas of the boss in open meetings (not to see) as rude or disrespectful but it is the sign of a fully committed, professional approach.

7. Women currently make up a large percentage of the workforce in Australia but like in many other countries (to find often) in lower paid and part-time jobs.

8. Less emphasis (to place) on the importance of absolute punctuality in Brazil than in some Anglo and Asian cultures and you should not be surprised if meetings start late and finish even later.

9. Japanese management emphasises the need for information flow from the bottom of the company to the top. As a result, it (to note) that policy is often originated at the middle-levels of a company before (to pass) upwards for ratification.

10. Germans put truth and directness before diplomacy, believing that the fact is the important issue and that personal emotions should not deflect the truth from (to speak). This directness can (to interpret) by certain cultures such as the UK, Japan and Korea as rudeness.

Vocabulary to learn

1. ambiguity

2. avoid

3. application

4. available

5. conduct survey

6. contemporary world

7. contribute

8. consequence/consequently

9. constitute

10. controversial

11. corporate identity

12. corporate environment

13. decision-making process

14. devote oneself to

15.efficient management/ efficiency

16. go bust

17. household

18. information flow

19. interpersonal competition

20.lifetime commitment /employment

21. make an investment in

22. make sacrifices

23. obey / obedience

24. participation

25. peculiar

26. proclaim sth

27. promotion

28. purpose

29. receive feedback

30. regulations

31. reveal sth

32. run business

33. supplier

34. take sth into consideration

35. uncertainty

 

UNIT 8

Controlled Practice: Cultural Awareness in Business

READING

Exercise 1. Read the text and translate one part of it.

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