Look at the definitions and write the words
► a station from which trains leave a train station.................
► a bottle once containing medicine and made of glass a glass medicine bottle
1 a wall made of stone ....................................
2 a centre where information is given to tourists
3 a towel you use after having a bath ....................................
4 clothes for working in
5 a block of offices in the centre of a city
6 a graph showing sales
7 a card that gives you credit
8 a race for horses
9 the Director of Marketing
10 a tour by bicycle at the end of the week
Exercise 3
Make two compound nouns from the nouns in each group.
1 profits course training company
2 staff forecast meeting sales
3 card store credit department
4 Internet sale summer access
5 figures price inflation range
6 survey market hour rush
7 technology keys car information
8 assistant shop failure power
9 shopfloor working worker lunch
10 insurance loan contract bank
11 features costs production product
12 market marketing budget leader
Exercise 4
Cross out the one word in each group that does not make a common compound noun with the first word in bold.
1 salesforecast/figures/trade/target 6 productmanager/range/features/share
2 marketforces/sector/check/share 7 advertisingslogan/campaign/line/agency
3 priceoffer/list/range/rise 8 productionmarket/line/capacity/target
4 brandimage/leader/loyalty/process 9 workingconditions/trend/hours/lunch
5 taxrelief/benefits/output/allowance 10 stockoption/decision/market/exchange
Exercise 5
Underline the most suitable noun combination in each group. Translate them into Russian.
- a) the meeting of today b) today’s meeting c) today meeting
- a) a letter of credit b) a credit’s letter c) a letter’s credit
- a) a business card b) a card of business c) a businesses’ card
- a) a data’s base b) a base of data………c) a database
Exercise 6
Nouns used as numerical adjectives are singular. For example, a plan which lasts for 10 years = a ten-year plan. Change the following phrases in the same way. Translate the sentences.
- a hotel with five stars
- a budget worth 3 million dollars
- a presentation that lasts 20 minutes
- a contract worth 200,000 pounds
- an industrial empire which is 150 years old
Exercise 7
Match each noun in column 1 to two of the nouns in column 2 to make word partnership.
| 1. business | a. virus | b. cards | c. plan |
| 2. management | a. style | b. technology | c. policy |
| 3. sales | a. compaign | b. department | c. trade |
| 4. labour | a.force | b. technology | c. market |
| 5. company | a. house | b. headquarters | c. logo |
| 6. trade | a. union | b. technology | c. fair |
| 7. consumer | a. goods | b. logos | c. awareness |
| 8. research | a. project | b. findings | c. knowledge |
| 9. information | a. technology | b. force | c. desk |
| 10. computer | a. union | b. program | c. virus |