Introduction 4
Unit one 5
Meeting an English businessman 5
Unit two 8
Speak with Englishmen! 8
Unit three 12
The Russia hotel 12
Unit four 16
At the restaurant 16
Unit five 21
Small talk 21
Unit six 24
Making an appointment 24
Unit seven 26
Business 26
Unit eight 30
A business talk 30
Unit nine 35
Details 35
Unit ten 39
Contract 39
Unit eleven 43
Fax messages 43
Unit twelve 47
Telephoning 47
Unit thirteen 52
Travelling 52
Unit fourteen 57
Passports 57
Unit fifteen 61
Luggage and customs 61
Unit sixteen 65
Meetings 65
Unit seventeen 68
Hotel in London 68
Unit eighteen 71
Training programme 71
Unit nineteen 75
Trade finance 75
Unit twenty 79
Banking 79
Unit twenty one 83
The Bank of England 83
Unit twenty two 87
The underground 87
Unit twenty three 91
The buses 91
Unit twenty four 93
Changing money 93
Unit twenty five 97
Hotel services 97
Unit twenty six 100
Madame Tussaud's 100
Unit twenty seven 103
Accounting 103
Unit twenty eight 107
Balance sheets 107
Unit twenty nine 110
Taxes 110
Unit thirty 114
Value added tax (VAT) 114
Unit thirty one 118
Shopping 118
Unit thirty two 122
Entertainments 122
Unit thirty three 125
The British pub 125
Unit thirty four 127
Greenwich and the Thames 127
Unit thirty five 132
Business contacts 132
Unit thirty six 136
At the office 136
Unit thirty seven 139
The goods to be bought 139
Unit thirty eight 142
Ordering the devices 142
Unit thirty nine 146
Prices 146
Unit forty 149
Contracts in foreign trade 149
Unit forty one 154
London taxis 154
Unit forty two 158
London and the City 158
Unit forty three 162
Driving a car 162
Unit forty four 165
Windsor and Eton 165
Unit forty five 169
Payments in international trade 169
Unit forty six 172
Problems settled 172
Unit forty seven 176
Mass media 176
Unit forty eight 180
Financial news 180
Unit forty nine 183
A visit to Oxford 183
Unit fifty 186
Good-bye to London 186
English-Russian Vocabulary 188
English-Russian phrases on business 224