Unit Five
Requisitos de finalización
Tasks for unit five.
Getting to a company
Reading. Before your visit, you have decided to find some information about the company. Read the short text about Škoda Holding history and answer the questions in the READING COMPREHENSION exercise.
Škoda Holding started in 1859 when count Waldstein decided to transfer a part of the production from his ironworks and engineering shop in Sedlec to Pilsen. The original Waldstein workshops were located west of the city and produced steam engines, distillery, brewery and sugar refinery equipment, agricultural tools and other engineering equipment.
In 1866 Emil Škoda became the senior engineer of the workshops. He had a clear vision about the future development of the industry and therefore understood that it would be necessary to invest in the company, introduce new product lines and modernize the existing ones. The owner of the company Waldstein was not really enthusiastic about Škoda’s plans and in 1896 sold his company to him. Emil Škoda decided to invest in arms production and in 1884 he started building a modern steel works.
In 1890 an independent arms manufacturing division was established and in 1895 a new field gun was produced. The company became one of the biggest arms manufacturers in Europe. One year before Škoda’s death Škoda company, the family - owned business, became a joint stock company. The company produced more than just arms. Škoda works still manufactured steam engines, gas engines, mining equipment, food-processing machines, steel structures, and large and complex castings for the ship building industry.
Adapted from Škoda works in historical photographs by L. Nohovcová, P. Mazný and V. Krátký
Now look at the data below and write a paragraph about the further development of the company. Use the verbs from the list below. Compare your answers with the sentences in the HISTORY quiz.
become, establish, result, win, bear, implement, produce, make, acquire
Do you remember Past Simple (active and passive)?
1904 – new product line – production of steam turbines
1907 – independent steam turbine research facility
Word War I – arms, heavy guns and Howitzers
1918 – collapse of the Austro – Hungarian Empire, company crisis
1920 – Electrial Engineering Company in Doudlevce
1923 – new Škoda trademark: a winged arrow in a circle
1925 – company Laurin and Klement part of Škoda concern
1927 – production of electric locomotives
1945 – bombing Škoda premises
1946 – national enterprise
1961 - the biggest export contract in the company’s history
1993 – privatized
Listen to the recording and complete the missing words. Click here to open the quiz.
You should remember:
Asking and giving directions:
Excuse me, …
Can you tell me how to get to …?
Go straight along here, until you get to ….., then turn left/right at the …. (go straight on) and it’s on your left/right, next to/opposite …
Giving direction when driving a car:
get on the motorway
go for 10 kilometers
take the left hand fork
get off the motorway at the next exit
roundabout
the road is signposted to Prague
Škoda Holding started in 1859 when count Waldstein decided to transfer a part of the production from his ironworks and engineering shop in Sedlec to Pilsen. The original Waldstein workshops were located west of the city and produced steam engines, distillery, brewery and sugar refinery equipment, agricultural tools and other engineering equipment.
In 1866 Emil Škoda became the senior engineer of the workshops. He had a clear vision about the future development of the industry and therefore understood that it would be necessary to invest in the company, introduce new product lines and modernize the existing ones. The owner of the company Waldstein was not really enthusiastic about Škoda’s plans and in 1896 sold his company to him. Emil Škoda decided to invest in arms production and in 1884 he started building a modern steel works.
In 1890 an independent arms manufacturing division was established and in 1895 a new field gun was produced. The company became one of the biggest arms manufacturers in Europe. One year before Škoda’s death Škoda company, the family - owned business, became a joint stock company. The company produced more than just arms. Škoda works still manufactured steam engines, gas engines, mining equipment, food-processing machines, steel structures, and large and complex castings for the ship building industry.
Adapted from Škoda works in historical photographs by L. Nohovcová, P. Mazný and V. Krátký
Now look at the data below and write a paragraph about the further development of the company. Use the verbs from the list below. Compare your answers with the sentences in the HISTORY quiz.
become, establish, result, win, bear, implement, produce, make, acquire
Do you remember Past Simple (active and passive)?1904 – new product line – production of steam turbines
1907 – independent steam turbine research facility
Word War I – arms, heavy guns and Howitzers
1918 – collapse of the Austro – Hungarian Empire, company crisis
1920 – Electrial Engineering Company in Doudlevce
1923 – new Škoda trademark: a winged arrow in a circle
1925 – company Laurin and Klement part of Škoda concern
1927 – production of electric locomotives
1945 – bombing Škoda premises
1946 – national enterprise
1961 - the biggest export contract in the company’s history
1993 – privatized
Listen to the recording and complete the missing words. Click here to open the quiz.
You should remember:
Asking and giving directions:
Excuse me, …
Can you tell me how to get to …?
Go straight along here, until you get to ….., then turn left/right at the …. (go straight on) and it’s on your left/right, next to/opposite …
Giving direction when driving a car:
get on the motorway
go for 10 kilometers
take the left hand fork
get off the motorway at the next exit
roundabout
the road is signposted to Prague