Complete the sentences with grammatically correct forms of the words in the table in A opposite. (The number in brackets indicates the number of different possible answers.)
1 A lot of mobile phone (3 possibilities) takes place in China, but Nokia still
(3 possibilities) them in Finland too, so Finland is a
(3 possibilities) of mobile phones.
2 India is important for call centres, but it is also emerging as a of
of all kinds, including accountancy.
3 Russia is a major oil and also important for the of gas.
4 The United Kingdom is a big of legal and financial services.
5 Brazil is still the world’s biggest coffee , but coffee is also in
many other countries, including new ones such as Vietnam.
6 With the increase in medical tourism, Thailand is emerging as an important centre for the
of healthcare services to people from other countries.
Look at B opposite. Rearrange these sections of a short
presentation about manufacturing into a logical order.
a work. Of course, we still have a large number of assemblyb plant producing TVs in Singapore. We have two production
c My name’s George Chien, and I’m director of a manufacturing
d lines working 24 hours a day. CAD/
e intensive. But with the help of computerf line workers, so it’s quite labourg CAM and robots do some of the assembly
h assisted design and automation, productivity is increasing