English 7 – Unit 1

Mergers and acquisitions

Tarea: Reading
Objetivos: Students will be able to identify information related to mergers and acquisitions,
the decision-making process involved in them, and the appropriate expressions to talk
about them.
Descripción de la Tarea: Students will complete different exercises based on a reading
about mergers and acquisitions, centered around the contents of the unit such as business
idiomatic expressions and summarizing.
Formato: exercises: True or False / questions / summary.
Recursos: Word worksheet.
Calificación:
Esta actividad tiene un puntaje de: 20%

Read the following article and complete exercises 1 through 3 based on its
information:
Green targets. Taken from Market Leader 3rd Edition – Upper Intermediate, p. 115.
1. Select True or False based on the information presented on the article. If false,
correct the information:

a. Sean Greenwood is more positive about the takeover of Ben and Jerry's than Jerry
Greenfield and Kevin Ranney. TRUE FALSE

b. Large companies acquire small companies to help them with

innovation. TRUE FALSE

c. The majority of customers shop elsewhere when their favorite brands have been
taken over. TRUE FALSE

d. Ben and Jerry's shares were doing well just before Unilever

bought them. TRUE FALSE

e. Ben and Jerry's are using more freetrade ingredients than

before the acquisition. TRUE FALSE
2. Answer these questions:
a. What do large companies have that smaller companies don't?

b. What problems did Ben and Jerry's have just after the acquisition?

c. Find the three expressions in the first paragraph that describe one company
being taken over by another company.

3. Summarize the most relevant ideas from the text in a graphic organizer: