VI Comprehensive skills

1. Read and remember:

1. necessary – необхідний

2. (a) shopping-mall – торгівельний центр

3. (an)enterprise – підприємство

4. sad but true – на жаль це правда

5. would rather buy – скоріше купили б

6. due to – завдяки

7. (a) label – етикетка

8. (a) customer – покупець

9. it goes without saying – безумовно

10. profitable – вигідний

Listen to the text “Why is light industry so important for our country?” and try to understand it.

3. True or false statements:

1. Ukrainians buy only Ukrainian light industry goods.

2. There is a big choice of Ukrainian light industry goods on the markets.

3. The students of Ann’s university are not talented at all.

4. The students get very little help for their development.

5. Light industry is a field which is able to make a country rather rich and prosperous.

4. Listen to the text once again and answer the following questions:

1. Where can you find a big choice of any goods in our country?

2. Have you got any clothes made in China, Turkey or Thailand?

3. Why are Ukrainian goods so unpopular with our customers?

4. We are not sometimes able to buy Ukrainian clothes due to their high prices, are we?

5. Are there any talented students at our university? What are they talented in?

Who are they? (you can name yourself, your groupmates or any other people from the university.)