Английский язык: Аннотирование и реферирование текста

126 3. What kind of information should a firm’s accounting system be able to provide? 4. How are the three requirements of an accounting system met? 5. What is the balance sheet? 6. What is the conventional way in which the balance sheet can be set out? 7. What does the profit and loss account show? II . Look through the text and say if the text is : 1) report for a conference; 2) an article from a journal; 3) an extract from a textbook; 4) a newspaper feature. III . Find in the text definitions of the main terms and trans- late them into Russian . IV . Find the text the passage describing the profit and loss account and translate it . V . Find in the text and put down key words , which can be used to speak about assets , liabilities , the balance sheet . VI . Express the main idea of each paragraph . VII . Make up a plan of the text . VIII . Match the words from the text with their correspond- ing definitions . 1) Assets 2) Fixed assets 3) Current assets 4) Liabilities 5) Balance sheet a) include land, premises, equipment; b) the debts the firm owes to others; c) a summary of the firm’s assets, liabilities and capital; d) include stock, debtors and cash; e) the things a firm owns. IX . Make up the abstract and the annotation of the text .