Практическое задание по дисциплине «Деловой английский».
Answer these questions individually. What do your answers say about your attitude to money? Write about it in an essay.
1 How much cash do you have with you at the moment? Do you:
a) know exactly?
b) know approximately?
c) not know at all?
2 Do you normally check:
a) your change?
b) your bank statements and credit-card bills?
c) restaurant bills?
d) your receipts when shopping?
e) prices in several shops or online before you buy something?
3 Do you:
a) give money to beggars?
b) give money to charities?
c) give away used items such as clothes?
d) sell things you don’t want (for example, on eBay)?
4 How do you feel about borrowing money? Do you tend to:
a) always manage to stay in credit and save regularly?
b) sometimes go into the red and use an overdraft facility?
c) usually pay interest on your credit card at the end of the month?
5 Some people try not to pay the correct amount of tax. Is this:
a) a serious crime?
b) morally wrong, but not a crime?
c) excellent business practice?
6 If you lend a colleague a small amount of money and they forget to pay it back, do you:
a) say nothing?
b) remind them that they owe you money?
c) arrange to go for a drink with them and say you’ve forgotten your wallet
or purse?