Книга: Basic English

-You know I never buy widely advertised brands. They are more expensive. Goods could be much cheaper if the advertising costs were cut down.

-I’m not sure that’s always true. Advertising results in higher sales and the manufacturers may be able to use mass production. That usually means lower prices and cheaper goods.

-Won’t there be mass production anyway if the article is something that everybody needs?

-Cars are mass produced. Still the car manufacturers spend millions on advertising.

-That’s because there’s so much competition. If there were only one company producing cars, advertising would be unnecessary and the cost could be saved.

-That raises quite a different question-whether the competition serves any useful purpose. We’d better not start discussing that.

6. Language work: Say the sentences using can or could in requests . Use the words given bellow. Translate the sentences:

1) Lend lift ask come bring borrow name cope give trim put out explain give let borrow collect ask carry do fix

1. …you… my luggage, please?

2. …you… me a favor?

3. … you…your cigarette, please?

4. … you… me this question again, please?

5. … you… me some money?

6. …you… to me how to fill in this form, please?

7. … you… me have a day of tomorrow, please?

8. … you… my dress from the cleaner’s?

9. . ..you just… my hair at the back?

10. …I… a book to read?

11. …you…for lunch on Saturday?

12. …I…your calculator – I left mine at home.

13. …you… the door?

14. …I…my dog? She’s well-behaved.

15. …you… me some advice?

16. …you… the next patient to come in, please?

17. …you… me a description of your attacker?

18. …your hospitals… with major obstacles like a train crash?

19. …you… the actress who starred in ‘Gone with the wind’?

20. …you… this box?

2) Say the sentences in English using can or could after the verbs of perception : see (in the meaning of understand ), hear, understand, feel, taste, smell.