Exercise 5. a) Read the text.
Business people travel a lot. They meet their business partners in other cities or countries and visit international trade shows. They may have their enterprises abroad. They often negotiate with partners about the terms and conditions of business contracts.
Mr Smith is an English businessman. He lives and works in Switzer¬land. His office is in Bern. He often goes abroad. When he goes abroad, he often flies.
Mr Smith is flying to New York tomorrow. He has got his passport, ticket and traveller's cheques. His plane leaves at a quarter to five. The taxi is waiting in the street.
b) Think and answer.
1.Do Russian businessmen often go on business abroad?
2.Do they fly when they go on business?
3.Have they got traveller's cheques with them?
4.Do they do business with many foreign firms?
5.What airports are there in Moscow?
6.Do you often meet your foreign partners at the airport?
7.Do you often go on business?
8.Where do you usually stay when you are on business?
9.Who makes reservations for you at hotels?
10.What accommodation do you usually reserve?
11.What Moscow hotels do your business partners usually stay at?
12.What are the best Moscow hotels?
13.What facilities are there at Moscow hotels?
14.Are you going on business in the near future? What country are
you going to visit?
15.Are you going there with some other people from your of-fice?
16.How long are you going to stay there?
17.What points are you going to settle? (price, delivery days, terms
of delivery, etc.)
18.Is it difficult to settle the price problem with buyers?
