The economic

infrastructure
Identify the most prominent
features in the following
paragraphs?
(They illustrate various
important elements of the
infrastructure of a modern
industrialized country).
The economic infrastructure
Identify the most prominent
features in the following
paragraphs?
(They illustrate various
important elements of the
infrastructure of a modern
industrialized country).
• Primary sector: agriculture, the extraction of raw materials
from earth;
• Secondary sector: manufacturing industry in which raw
materials are turned into finished products;
• Tertiary/service sector: the commercial services that help
industry produce and distribute goods to their final
consumers, education, healthcare, leisure, tourism, etc.
 Primary sector Secondary sector Tertiary sector
digging ore/bauxite assembling advertising products
mining coal building calculating prices
cutting metal distributing added value
laying cables maintenance*
milling metal marketing products
pressing metal packaging products*
smelting ore pumping oil*
welding metal transportation
* Some of these answers are open to discussion
=> Consists of information services such as:
üComputing
üICT (information and communication technologies)
üConsultancy (offering advice to businesses)
üR&D (research and development particularly in scientific fields)
+
üNews media
üLibraries
üUniversities and colleges
üOther intellectual activities including culture generally
Which sector do you intend to work in, or
do you already work in? How do you fit
into the total picture?

How many people in the tertiary sector

have you already spoken to today? What
about people in other sectors? When did
you last talk to someone who grew or
produced food, for example?
What are the approximate proportions of
the different sectors in your country? How
do you expect these proportions to
evolve in the future?
The following statements are about the
manufacturing and services in advanced
countries.
• Which of them are in support of
manufacturing?
• Which of them are in support of services?
• Which of them do you find the most
convincing? Why?
The following statements are about the
manufacturing and services in advanced
countries.
• Which of them are in support of
manufacturing?
• Which of them are in support of services?
• Which of them do you find the most
convincing? Why?
The following statements are about the
manufacturing and services in advanced
countries.
• Which of them are in support of
manufacturing?
• Which of them are in support of services?
• Which of them do you find the most
convincing? Why?
The following statements are about the
manufacturing and services in advanced
countries.
• Which of them are in support of
manufacturing?
• Which of them are in support of services?
• Which of them do you find the most
convincing? Why?
The following statements are about the
manufacturing and services in advanced
countries.
• Which of them are in support of
manufacturing?
• Which of them are in support of services?
• Which of them do you find the most
convincing? Why?
The following statements are about the
manufacturing and services in advanced
countries.
• Which of them are in support of
manufacturing?
• Which of them are in support of services?
• Which of them do you find the most
convincing? Why?
The following statements are about
the manufacturing and services in
advanced countries.
• Which of them are in support of
manufacturing?
• Which of them are in support of
services?
• Which of them do you find the
most convincing? Why?
• 1, 3, 4, 7 in support of manufacturing in advanced countries.
• 2, 5, 6 in support of services in advanced countries.
• Statement 1 seems to be the most convincing because it is indisputably true.
• The first sentence in statements 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 are all equally unargutable.
• Products sold to other countries ___________
Þ Exported goods
• Property: buildings such as offices, houses, flats (BrE) or apartments (AmE)
_______
Þ Real estate (Largely AmE)
• Work done in return for money __________
Þ Labour
• To move your factories to another region or country _________
Þ To delocalize
• To use other companies to do work your company previously did itself _________
=> To outsource