Dusiyarova Sug'diyona Group 33 Week- vocabulary Unit 55 55. Suggested answers

Dusiyarova Sug'diyona

Group 233

Week- 9

Vocabulary

Unit 55

55.1 Suggested answers:

1 The economy cannot depend only on service industries. We need to encourage manufacturing industries.

2 In this area, there are a lot of high-technology / high-tech industries, white in the north, they depend more on low-technology / low-tech industries.

3 Cutting-edge technology is very expensive, so the company has to rely on conventional technology.

4 State ownership / Nationalisation is less popular than it was, but the trend towards privatisation has slowed down.

5 Heavy industry has declined, and now we're more dependent on light industry.

55.2

1 a public-private partnership

2 subsidy

3 inward investment

4 piecework

5 a sweatshop economy

6 to switch production, to relocate

7 retraining, reskilling

8 a multinational (company)

9 a cost-cutting

10 child labour ercise

11 zero hours contract

55.3

1 Industrial piracy (illegal production of goods using another company's brand name)

2 industrial espionage (stealing or destroying a rival company's plans or secrets)

3 Copyright infringement (publishing or copying a book or work of art without the author's permission)

4 Money laundering (passing money illegally earned through the normal banking system without being caught)

5 black market (secret, illegal trade)

Unit 56

56.1

1 satellite communications

2 ergonomics

3 biotechnology

4 digital technology

5 artificial intelligence

6 Bluetooth"H

56.2

1 tablet / iPad

2 interactive TV

3 laptop

4 desktop computer

5 e-reader / Kindle

6 router

56.3

1 thumbnail (small pictures you can make bigger before downloading them)

2 computer nerd (a rather negative term for a person obsessed with computers and who devotes most of their time to them at the expense of a normal social life)

3 techie (this has none of the negative associations that nerd has)

4 app (short for application = special software)

5 screensaver (image that appears on your computer screen if you do not use the computer for a certain period of time)

6 footprint

7 icon (small symbol representing the program)

8 trackpad

56.4 1 technician 2 technically 3 technology 4 technique 5 technologically