Unit 11

   Reading exercises

   p.109

   

   ex2

   2a, 3c, 4d, 5e, 6b, 7f, 8g, 9h

   

   ex3

   a offering computer programming to corporate customers; distributing PCs; making PCs; being
   the first software company to be listed; creating specialist business software components that
   can be fitted together

   b seeing the future of microprocessors and creating the Apricot; indentifying the market for
   financial software and buying relevant companies

   c launching Apricot in the US against Apple; failing to switch to IBM-compatible computing;
   infighting in the boardroom

   

   Vocabulary (p.109)

   ex1

   2 computer programming

   3 distributing

   4 manufacturing

   5 launch

   6 restructuring

   

   ex2

   2c, 3f, 4b, 5d, 6h, 7a, 8 g

   

   ex3 (p.110)

   2 advantage

   3 ventures

   4 entrepreneurs

   5 predicts

   6 demand

   7 industry

   

   Prefixes (p.110)

   ex1

   2b, 3f, 4c, 5 a, 6d

   

   ex2

   b postdate, predate

   c prearranged

   d international, multinational

   e ex-director

   f postgraduate

   g interpersonal

   h ex-husband

   i biannual

   

   Language focus (p.111)

   Relative clauses

   1A, 2B

   

   Practice

   ex1

   2N, 3N, 4D, 5N, 6D

   

   ex2

   1 This is one of the videos (which/that) we use for training purposes.

   2 Have you read the report (which/that) I left on your desk last night?

   3 The candidates (who/that) we interviewed were very highly qualified.

   4 What’s the name of the secretary whose computer crashed last week?

   5 The woman who introduced me to Mr Ross was Australian.

   

   ex3 (p.112)

   2e, 3f, 4b, 5g, 6a, 7d

   

   page 115, ex1

   a8, b1, c7, d4, e6, f2, g5, h3