Учебное пособие G. G. Gubina english for tourists in professional communication part I textbook

sign an agreement
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подписать договор 
unlimited mileage неограниченный пробег 
Task 6 Read and dramatise the dialogue.  
Characters: Car Rental Agency employee and Michael Brown  
Hiring a Car 
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Good morning. What can I do for you? 
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I’d like to hire a car.
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For what period? 
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For ten days, please.
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What brand of car would you prefer, sir? 
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Renault Megane. Five-door saloon.
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Splendid. The price includes unlimited mileage.
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Good. 
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How would you pay? 
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I’ll make card payment. 
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Great. Can I see your driving license, please? 
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Here it is. Driving license is from Great Britain.
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Fine. Your driving license is valid. We’ll sign an agreement.  
Task 7. Imagine how you would hire a car: a) period of hiring 2) brand of car 3) way of payment 4) the 
papers you need to hire a car.  
Task 8. Read the beginning of the dialogue. Think how you would continue it.

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Good morning. How can I help?
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I need to hire a car. 
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Country Study 
Features of the Korean Language 
Task 9. Study the words before reading the text.  
agglutination, n агглютинация 
focalization, n фокализация 
heaven, n небо 
hollow, a глухой 
stiffness, n жесткость  
Task 10. Read information about the Korean language. Find and describe its features.  
Features of the Korean Language 
Korean is the official language of both South Korea and North Korea and also in some eastern 
countries, including China, Russia, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. All in all, the Korean is spoken by 
more than sixty million people. Pronunciation of the Korean vowels is characterized by focalization and 
use of hollow voice. Specific feature of the pronunciation of consonants is stiffness. From the view of 
morphology, Korean is an agglutinative language, i.e., the words are combined of the morphemes which 
stay unchanged after agglutination. The language grammatical system includes nouns, three types of verbs, 
pronouns, numbers, and modifiers, function words. Syntactically, the structure of the sentences is formed 
as subject, object and then verb. The language lacks the gender with few exceptions. Vocabulary of South 
Korea and North Korea differs in use. There exist some dialects, but the differences between them are 
leveled. There is a system of honorifics, i.e., special addressing to people according to their social status. 
Some of the words of the Korean language are similar to the corresponding words of the Japanese 
language. It was also greatly influenced by the Chinese language, especially, in writing. Previously in 
written texts the Koreans used a combination of the Chinese symbols of hangeul and hanja. The words had 
been written vertically in columns. Nowadays the Koreans use horizontal writing from left to right, from 
top to bottom and they use hangeul in writing. Writing is syllabic. The Koreans combine letters into 
syllable blocks and use spaces between the words. There are no such spaces in the Chinese or the Korean 
languages. Some consonants graphically represent speech organs and graphical representation of vowels is 
based on vertical lines denoting man, horizontal lines meaning earth and dots symbolising heaven.