30th April 2020

Homework
Student: Tîrîș Dănuț-Marinel

Vocabulary. Exercise A/8.

1. acquisition – d) buying or taking over another company

2. joint venture – f) two or more companies join temporarily to carry out a large
project
3. consortium – g) a group of companies in similar businesses working together
4. franchising – b) giving someone the exclusive right to sell products in a certain
area
5. licensing – c) selling the right to a manufacturer’s trademark, usually in a
foreign market
6. local partner – e) a person or company who cooperates with a foreign company
who wishes to enter the market
7. subsidiary – a) a company partly or wholly owned by a parent company

Exercise B/8

1. joint venture
2. acquisition
3. local partner
4. licensing, franchising

Language review

One syllable: rich, richer, richest

One syllable ending vowel+consonant: big, bigger, biggest
Two syllables ending in y: early, earlier, earliest
Two or more syllables: more successful, most successful

Exercise A/8

1. most glamorous
2. the tallest
3. the cleanest
5. as common as
6. large
7. much older
8. very high compared to

Five things that will change when traveling by plane after the pandemic

o travelers could be subject to tests like temperature checks, or they may even
need health certificates to fly;
o most of the marginal routes are likely to be cut and their prices will rise;
o there will be fewer short-distance routes;
o ticket prices will increase;
o middle seats will be kept empty;

Exercise 8/8

1. the most expensive

2. weaker
3. weaker
4. higher
5. the highest
6. more comfortable
7. the most expensive
8. stronger
9. more expensive
10. cheaper
11. most expensive
12. cheaper
13. dearer
14. the most exciting
15. cleaner
16. safer
17. most expensive

Exercise C/8

1. different
2. as
3. less
4. same
5. not
6. compared
7. much
8. rather
9. just
10. similar