Michelin

Michelin is a famous old company with a dynamic young chairman. Eduord Michelin is the great-grandson of the founder of this company, which is based in Clermont Ferrard in the centre of France. Michelin manufactures tyres and supplies them all over the world. The company employs about 120.000 people and has annual sales of over €14 billion. Goodyear and Firestone are Michelin’s main competitors. Eduord Michelin manages the company using modern methods. At the moment, Michelin sells tyres to the BMW Williams team. The company has two main markets, Europe and the USA, but it plans to develop the Asian market. In the USA it owns the Uniroyal company. It advertises a lot on TV and in magazines and sponsors racing events. It also publishes the famous Michelin guidebooks. Edourd Michelin and his wife have five children and live outside Clermont Ferrand.

Answer the following questions about Michelin:

1. What is the name of the company?

2. Where is the company (the headquarters, the head office) based?

3. Does the company have any subsidiaries? Where?

4. What does the company do?

5. What are the main products?

6. How many people work in the company?

7. Who is the owner (the founder, the head) of the company?

8. Is the company successful?

9. What are the main markets?

10. Who are the main competitors?

11. What are the plans for the future?

UNIT V. My working day

Speaking: Speaking about smb’s working day

Text: Michael Dell’s working day

Grammar: Present Simple (II), числительные, предлоги времени

Числительные от 1 до 12

Числительные обозначают количество предметов или их порядковый номер. Таким образом, они делятся на количественные и порядковые.

Количественные числительные о 1 до 12 являются непроизводными.

Порядковые числительные, начиная с 4-го, образуются от соответствующих количественных числительных путем прибавления суффикса –th. Порядковые числительные «первый, второй, третий» имеют особую форму.

1-one 2-two 3-three 4-four 5-five 6-six 7-seven 8-eight 9-nine 10-ten 11-eleven 12-twelve

The first The second The third The fourth The fifth The sixth The seventh The eighth The ninth The tenth The eleventh The twelfth

Обратите внимание на следующие изменения в написании и произношении следующих чисел:

Five - the fifth

Twelve – the twelfth