Business idioms

Read the sad story of Pedro Brown. Then match the idioms (1 – 12) with their
meanings (a – l).
1. Pedro Brown was on the ball. -f-
2. He had a good track record. ----
3. He had a good nose for a sale. ----
4. And he usually plays his cards right. ----
5. But success went to his head. ----
6. He began to lose his touch. ----
7. He always up to his eyes in work. ----
8. He starts trying to pass the buck. ----
9. And then he put his foot in it. ----
10.The boss gave him a piece of his mind. ----
11.Nobody put him in the picture any more. ----
12. And in the end he was fired. ----

a. He began to have too important an opinion of himself.

b. He had too many things to do.
c. He made a big mistake.
d. He lost his job.
e. He was not told what was happening.
f. He was a clever employee; he knew what was going on.
g. He made the right decisions.
h. He passed responsibility to other people.
i. His job experience was good.
j. He talked to him very directly.
k. He started to make mistakes.
l. He was a natural salesman.
Remember the words you need to know when we talk about Business.
Company Registered business
Production Producing goods and creating services
Distribution Moving things from the place of production to the
market place
Sale Exchange of a product or service for money
Profit The money that remains after all the expenses are
paid
Good Product that people either need or want
Service Activity that a person or people perform for another
person or organization
Entrepreneur A businessperson, someone who starts and build a
business
Contract Legal agreement between two people or
organizations
Competition Trying to do better than another company
Competitor Person or company who tries to do better than
another person or company
Competitive Hard, as a result of competition

I. Match English terms with their Ukrainian definition.

production прибуток
distribution запас
sale доставка
profit виробництво
sole proprietorship товариство
partnership акціонер
stock реалізація
stockholder індивідуальне підприємництво

II. To each word in the left column find its synonym in the right
column.
production share
stock company
major efficient
producer manufacturer
good in general
business manufacturing
productive primary
commonly product
 III. Translate the sentences from Ukrainian into English lesson.
1. Бізнес – дуже складний вид діяльності
Business is a very difficult activity
2. В США бізнес існував сотні років тому.
In the United States, business existed hundreds years ago.
3. Щодня тисячі людей розпочинають свою власну справу.
Every day thousands of people start their own business.
4. Бізнес – виробництво, розподіл та продаж товару та послуг.
Business is production, distribution and sale of goods and services.
5.Розподіл означає рух товарів та послуг на ринок.
Distribution means moving of goods and services to the market place.
6.Продаж означає обмін товарів на гроші.
Sale means an exchange of goods and services for money
7. Мета будь-якого бізнесу – отримати прибуток.
An aim of any business is to receive profit.
8. Прибуток – гроші, які ми маємо після сплати всіх витрат.
Profit means money that we have after paying all the expenses.
9. Підприємці – люди, які мають власну справу.
Entrepreneurs are people who own their business.
10. Щоб бути успішним бізнесменом, ви повинні бути розумною та
енергійною людиною.
To be a successful businessman you are to be clever and energetic person.

IV. Correct the mistakes.

1. The news are bad, I’m afraid.
Is
2. She knows a great many persons.
People
3. Stress at work is not a recent phenomena.
 Phenomenon
4. Our office is situated in a pleasant surrounding.
Surroundings
5. The staffs are unhappy with the new arrangements.
The staff
6. The money were acquired by dishonest means.
was

V. The statements to the crossword.

1. Accounting to calculate the amount needed to make the debit side and the
credit side of an account equal.
2. Activity of buying and using goods.
3. The movement of finished products from the manufacturing location to
the market place.
4. A measure of retail price increases.
5. The social science that describes and analyses how society chooses
among scarce resources to satisfy its wants.
6. The process of trading or bartering one unit of goods or services for
another.
7. An amount of something that is available to be sold.
8. Something in short supply, not enough to meet demand.