X. Complete this text about your friend. Add extra details if you need to.

IX. Insert correct prepositions where necessary.

VIII. Open the brackets and use the correct tense form.

VII. Make the sentences negative and interrogative.

VI. Complete the sentences with the information from the text.

V. Read the text again. Agree or disagree with the following statements.

IV. Answer the questions on the text.

III. Find English equivalents to the following Russian words and word-combinations.

Основать компанию, товарооборот в 8 миллиардов долларов, отдел электроники, компания была переименована, искать работу, степень магистра по электротехнике, инжиниринговая компания, работать над электронными приборами.

1. What is Texas Instruments?

2. What company did it grow out of?

3. What’s the turnover of the company today?

4. When did the company grow rapidly?

5. What’s Cecil Green’s education?

6. What was his first job?

7. What company did he join when he left the General Electric Company?

8. How old was he when he died?

1. Cecil H Green helped to found one of the largest electronics companies.

2. The company is very successful today.

3. Texas Instruments grew out of a TV-producing company.

4. Green was a director of Texas Instruments until his death.

5. Green completed his studies with a Master’s Degree in medicine.

6. His first job was to design steam turbine generators for the General Electric Company.

1. The company has a turnover of …

2. Texas Instruments grew out of ….

3. Charles’s mother and father immigrated to Canada when …

4. The family often moved …

5. Green attended …

6. Between 1928 and 1932, Green …

1. Texas Instruments was established in 1941.

2. Green joined the company in 1932.

3. The company has a turnover of about $8 billion today.

4. Green attended high school in Vancouver.

5. The family immigrated to Canada.

6. Cecil Howard Green died in 2003.

1. My relatives (to immigrate) to the USA a few years ago.

2. What you (to look for)?

3. Jessica (to attend) every lecture of this professor.

4. He currently (to work) on a very interesting project.

5. John (to leave) the company three years ago.

6. They (to grow) a lot of vegetables in their garden.

1. Texas Instruments grew … … an oil exploration company.

2. Green spent several years looking … oil in Texas.

3. The family often moved … the USA and Canada.

4. Green entered … the University of British Columbia in 1918.

5. He joined the Raytheon Manufacturing Company to work … small devices.

6. Green worked … a number … engineering companies.

-My friend was born in …………………

- He studied at ...............................

- His main subjects at school/University were………………………

- He finished His studies ………. ago, in …………..

- …………….later, he got his first job. He worked for ……….as a …………. .

- He joined his present company ………….ago, in…………..

- He got his present job………………..later, in …………