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I Preview What do these companies do? Talk about each company's activitiesusing words from A and B below.

Microsoft designs and t7ells I I software.

A .AOL. citrbonk

WAL*MARTALWAYS LOW PRICES.

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create, design, develop, manufacture, market, offer, produce, provide, sell

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banking services. cars, clothing, electronic goods, food and drink, internetservices, IT software

Reading 1 Some companies have a number of different business activities.Read the short text below about General Electric (GE) and answer

the questions.

General Electricis a diversified technology, media and financial services company.

The company mission statement is to create products that make lifebetter: from aircraft engines to industr ia l machinery to insurance,medical technology, television news and plastics. GE operates in morethan 100 countries and emp loys more than 300,000 people worldwide.

l Name two more industry :sectors mentioned in the text: Techno fogy .. .

2 Name two more things that GE produces: Aircraft engines •. .

3 How many people work forGE?

4 Which word means that GE has many different business activities?

Speaking Work with a partner. Think of a company in your country or town.What are its main activities? Does it specialise in one industry sectoror is it diversified?

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media,financial services

industrial machinery, plastics

300,000

diversified

THINK ABOUT IKEA OR BAUHAUS OR MIGROS

IKEA is a Swedish company registered in the Netherlands that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture (such as beds, chairs, and desks), appliances, and home

accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer.Founded in Sweden in 1943 by a 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who is one of the world's richest people in

2013,the company's name is an acronym that consists of the initials of Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland

South Sweden). The company is known for its modern architectural designs for various types of appliances and furniture, and its interior design work is often associated

with an eco-friendly simplicity. In addition, the firm is known for its attention to cost control, operational details, and continuous product development, corporate attributes

that allowed IKEA to lower its prices by an average of two to three percent over the decade to 2010 during a period of global expansion. IKEA owns and operates 332

stores in 38 countries. In f 2010, US$23.1 billion worth of goods were sold, a total that represented a 7.7 percent increase over 2009. The IKEA website contains about

12,000 products and is the closest representation of the entire IKEA range. There were over 470 million visitors to IKEA's websites in the year from September 2007 to

September 2008. A July 2013 media report speculated that IKEA is the world's largest consumer of wood after a finding that the company uses 1% of the Earth's wood

supply.



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ld you like Lynn's job ?

ld you like to work for the Frognation Company ?

why not?

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-accountant

artist

an ereconomist

engineer

musician

a viser

representative

assistant

management consultant

software developer

film producer



Lynn creates video games

Lynn is meeting a client at the moment.

What does Lynn create ?

What doesn't she create ?

Does Lynn create ....... ?

Who is Lynn meeting at the moment ?

Is Lynn meeting wit a client at the moment ?

write sentences :

Lynn ..... not .......

Lynn ...... not ...... .

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