Daily Routine

Daily Routine TEXT One Day of Peter's life (Story by Peter and Heidi Elliott) I usually manage to be first at waking up — my brother Daniel (he's six) would stay in bed until seven o'clock. Mum can't understand it but it seems obvious to me that this is when the day starts, so why miss the beginning? After a quick warm-up and a chat we creep downstairs to see what's been left around from the night before, although Mum is wise to this and has usually put away anything really interesting.The refrigerator is always a fairly good place to start, and cold rice pudding tastes much better for breakfast than it does for pudding. 1 In fact I've tried most things at this hour, from cold stuffed marrow to raw sausages; some of it isn't recommendable and some of it can get you into a lot of trouble. Anyway, I can always make my own breakfast of cereals with plenty of sugar and not much milk. We made Mum's2 the other day but she didn't like the chopped peppercorns and Oxos3 that we added t o it. Mind you, it didn't look too good.Well, just when we get into a good game, Mum comes down and says that we have to put all the furniture back and get dressed. I always have the last say in what I'm going to wear, which is always jeans and a tee-shirt. I'm just not relaxed if I'm wearing smart trousers. I like a loose jacket and a hat; my old cowboy hat is a bit misshapen but I do not mind that, it seems to put me in the right mood for the day. It's time to take Daniel to school. I really enjoy this trip at the moment because I've got a super little bike which I ride there and back.Well, I don't exactly ride it because both pedals have fallen off and the chain has snapped, so now it's more like a hobby-bike. I use my feet for brakes and propulsion. 4 It works very well and my balance is now so good that I can ride my brother's big bike if someone helps me to get on and off. When we get to Daniel's school I have a race around the playground and annoy a few of Dan's friends befor e the whistle goes, and then, as the trip home is up-hill and rather boring. Mum usually has to give me a push.I generally play then, or visit a friend down the lane whose brother has some super toys, which compensates for the fact that she's a girl. 5 Lunch can vary from day to day because I'm quite fussy about my food. I find it hard to sit still long enough to eat a whole dinner, so sometimes Mum reads a book to me which makes it much more enjoyable, and if the story is very good, I've even been known to eat things that I didn't think I liked. I suppose that the way I spend my day must seem fairly routine to some people, but I like to use it to the full no matter what I'm doing.I do everything with enthusiasm — whether constructing a rocket with bricks or practising gymnastics on the bed or just sliding down the banisters, and I've noticed that people who are older than me don't seem to have half as much fun, so I say that I'm going to enjoy myself for as long as possible. The afternoons are unpredictable. On a fine day I may go swimming or visit a park or the shops. Personally, I think the shops are best, especially the ones with toys in. My mother just doesn't seem to understand that I need them all, anyway I have a good try with as many as I can before getting into trouble with the assistant.Then I move on to the sweets, which I generally get one of. Friends' houses can be a good source of entertainment, although if they haven't got any children it can be a bit frustrating not being allowed to touch anything. Luckily most of mother's friends have got children. The best treat of all, though, is visiting Nanny. 6 She's got much more time to spend on you than parents have and I do all sorts of things there. I have made some very tasty cakes in Nanny's kitchen and she doesn't mind how much mess goes on the floor. 7 I also enjoy gardening with her. She is extremely patient with my pruning efforts. So my afternoons vary until we collect my brother from school at 3. 30. He's not so much fun in the afternoons, but I do a bit of insect searching on the way home and collect any interesting sticks and stones that I think I could use in our small garden. My bedtime is fixed at 7. 30 and to be honest I'm just about ready for it by then. After doing my duty — by eating some tea — I play for a while or watch television. I'm not a TV addict but cartoons I do enjoy9 and my favorite programme is Tarzan. When this is on I strip off to my underpants and really get into the part. I'm fantastically brave. ) I then have a trip down a shark-infested river10 at bath time or practice swimming in the bath, but my room is rather restricted and Mum doesn't appreciate how far I get the water up the wall. 11 So, when the water has got fairly cold, I reluctantly agree to get out and put my pyjamas on. I don't like cleaning my teeth but I do. Mum has to read a book at bedtime: it gives me a few minutes to have a last play and select my favouri te toys before the light goes out. After all, even in my dreams I've had to fight some pretty fierce tigers. Proper NamesDaniel [‘d{[email  protected]] — Tarzan [‘t? z{n] — Vocabulary Notes 1. †¦ than it does for pudding — †¦ . 2. †¦ we made Mum's the other day — . 3. Oxos —  «Ã‚ » (. : ) 4. I use my feet for brakes and propulsion. — ? ? . 5. †¦ visit a friend down the lane whose brother has some super toys, which compensates for the fact that she's a girl. — †¦ ? , ; ? , ? ? , — . . Nanny — : (. : ?  «Ã‚ »). 7. She doesn't mind how much mess goes on the floor. — , . 8. †¦ she is extremely patient with my pruning efforts. — ? ? . 9. †¦ but cartoons I do enjoy †¦ — †¦ . 10. shark-infested — . 11. Mum doesn't appreciate how far I get the water up the wall. — , ? . Com prehension Check 1.Why does the child wake up first? 2. What do the brothers do after a warm-up and a chat? 3. What does the child like to wear? 4. Why does the boy enjoy his trip to Daniel's school? 5. Is he fussy about his food? 6. Does the boy find his days boring? 7. How does he spend the afternoons? 8. Whom does he enjoy visiting most? Why? 9. When does the boy go to bed? 10. Is he a TV addict? 11. How does the boy entertain himself at bathtime? 12. What does he do before the light goes out? . Phonetic Text Drills 0 Exercise 1 Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.Obvious, to creep, stuffed, marrow, raw, recommendable, cereals, peppercorns, loose, cowboy, misshapen, super, propulsion, balance, to compensate, to vary, enthusiasm, gymnastics, banister, unpredictable, frustrating, treat, pruning, insect, addict, cartoon, underpants, appreciate, reluctantly, pyjamas, fierce. 0 Exercise 2 Pronounce the words or phrases where the following clusters occur. 1. plos ive + plosive managed to be, creep downstairs, good place, and cold rice, look too, good game, get dressed, to take Daniel, hard to sit, bedtime, but cartoons, trip down, and put. 2. plosive + w t waking up, quick warm-up, that we added, just when, that we, it works, a rocket with bricks, patient with. 3. plosive + r brother, creep, breakfast, tried, trouble, trousers, trip, brakes, propulsion, unpredictable, try, children, treat, extremely, programme, brave, practise, agree, pretty. 4. plosive + s would stay, it seems, starts, what's, tastes, last say, its time, sit still, must seem, good source, fight some. 0 Exercise 3 Avoid false assimilation in the clusters: 1. z + s he's six, has snapped, has some. 2. voiceless plosive + D that this, at the moment, noticed that, think the shops. . s/z + D miss the beginning, Mum's the other day, as the trip, suppose that. 0 Exercise 4 Practise the pronunciation of predicative structures. It's ‘time to ‘take ‘Daniel to school. || The ,after'noons are ‘unpre'dictable. || The ‘best ‘treat of all, | though, | is ‘visiting Nanny. || My bedtime is ‘fixed at ‘seven hirty | and | to be honest | I'm ‘just a'bout eady for it by ,then. || I'm ‘not a ‘TV addict | but car'toons I ‘do en'joy | and my ‘favourite ‘programme is Tarzan. || EXERCISES Exercise 1 Reproduce the sentences in which the following words and expressions are used. o wake up to vary from day to day to leave around to use the day to the full to get somebody into trouble to do everything with enthusiasm to have the last say in to be a good source of something entertainment to be relaxed the best treat to put somebody in the to be a TV addict right mood oring to strip off to be fussy about something bedtime Exercise 2 Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons. 1. The child is the last to wake up. 2. In the kitchen the boy tries a lot of things from co ld mar row to raw sausages. 3. The child's mother has the last say in what he's going to wear. 4. The boy likes to wear smart suits. 5. He finds his trip to Daniel's school boring. 6. The boy is fussy about his food. 7.The child's routine is boring and predictable. 8. He likes spending his time in the shops. 9. The child enjoys visiting Nanny. 10. He is a TV addict. 11. The child enjoys swimming in the bath. Exercise 3 I. Give the three forms of the irregular verbs from the text: Creep, put, get, ride, go, give, find, read, think, slide, make, fight. II. Give the past form of the regular verbs: Manage, stay, start, add, enjoy, snap, use, annoy, visit, compensate, vary, suppose, construct, practise, seem, touch, mind, collect, search, fix, watch, strip, appreciate, agree, select.Exercise 4 Fill the gaps in these sentences with the suitable words below. I. frustrating unpredictable loose smart boring relaxed fussy 1. She likes to feel comfortable and relaxed in clothes, that's why she always wears †¦ sweaters and jackets and not †¦ suits. 2. Jane is fed up with this †¦ town — all they have is a bar, a cinema and a Chinese restaurant. 3. There must be nothing more †¦ than having a job you don't like. 4. You can't feel †¦ and enjoy yourself if there are exams coming. 5.Since the time she was ill, she's been †¦ about what she eats. 6. She behaves like the weather in Great Britain; she's so †¦ II. to creep to strip off to vary to select to annoy to leave around 1. There was a large number of beautiful toys and dolls in the shop and it took the girl a lot of time †¦ one. 2. Someone †¦ into the house and stole jewellery. 3. She ran upstairs,†¦ her wet jeans and sweater and pulled on a dressing gown. 4. I don't want to stay in the house with these two screaming kids. They †¦ me. 5. To make kids eat, you should †¦ he menu as much as possible. 6. Please, don't†¦ your toys †¦ . I have to put them away before I can do the cleaning. Exercise 5 Find in the text words and expressions similar in meaning to the italicized ones. 1. Somehow he got involved in a boring conversation about food prices. 2. I always start my day with morning exercises and a cold shower. And, of course, I very much like a cup of hot coffee. 3. Nurses should do all they can to make their patients feel at ease. 4. The child abandoned his favourite toy; a little squirrel in the grass had become better entertainment. . When I go to the countryside I like to observe insects. 6. I always go to bed at half past seven and nothing can change my habit. 7. I spent my holiday in Spain and enjoyed it fully. 8. I can't think of anything more tedious than washing and cooking for the family all day long. 9. I feel that you are doing that unwillingly. 10. My brother is always enthusiastic, no matter what he is doing — playing or working. 11. We moved quietly upstairs so as not to wake the baby. 12. Morning exercis es may be hard work, but they can also be great fun. 3. A meal in a restaurant came as a real pleasure after all the food at the university. 14. You are just saying that to irritate me. 15. In the afternoons Mother takes my sister from school. Exercise 6 Find in the text sentences containing: I. synonyms and synonymous expressions for the following: depressing untidiness to pick somebody up to take off the clothes physical exercises to be different II. words or phrases with the opposite meaning: to get out of bed to get undressed ot much boring to stay out of trouble predictable Exercise 7 Find in the text the English equivalents of the following words and expressions. A. ; ? ; ; ; ; ; ( -); ; ; ; ? ; ; ? 7. 30; ; -; ; ; ; ; ; ; . ?. ? ; ; ; ; - ; (? ); ; ? ; ; ; ? ; ; ; ; . Exercise 8 Express the same idea using different wording and grammar. 1. After a quick warm-up and a chat, we creep downstairs to see what's been left around fr om the night before. 2. I suppose the way I spend my day must seem fairly routine to some people, but I like to use it to the full. . Personally, I think the shops are best, especially the ones with toys in. 4. Friends' houses can be a good source of entertainment. 5. I'm not a TV addict but cartoons I do enjoy and my favourite programme is Tarzan. 6. The best treat of all is visiting Nanny. 7. She is extremely patient with my pruning efforts. 8. When Tarzan is on I strip off to my underpants and really get into the part. 9. I then have a trip down a shark-infested river at bathtime or practise swimming in the bath, but my room is rather restricted and mum doesn't appreciate how far I get the water up the wall. 10.Mum has to read a book at bedtime, it gives me a few minutes to have a last play and select my favourite toys before the light goes out. Exercise 9 1. Draw a chart like the one below and arrange the child's activities into two columns. Enjoyable Boring II. After you have f inished the chart, compare it with the rest of the class. Discuss the child's activities using the following words: Interesting, creative, exciting, good fun, dangerous, boring, good exercise, relaxing, crazy, wonderful, enjoyable, terrible. Start your discussion with the following phrases: I think/I don't think he enjoys/likes †¦It must be dangerous/interesting to swim/to play†¦ etc. That sounds/does not sound like much fan/crazy†¦ etc. I'd like to try †¦ myself. He doesn't mind †¦ If I had time, I'd like to †¦ Exercise 10 Speak about your daily activities using the patterns given below. 1. I'm not a TV addict/ardent reader, etc. but cartoons/novels, etc. I do enjoy. 2. I don't like cleaning my teeth/watching newsreels, etc. but I do. 3. I find it hard to sit still long enough/to work in the library, etc. 4. It can be a bit frustrating not being allowed to touch anything/to go to a disco, etc.Exercise 11 Speak about the child's daily routine: 1. in the third person; 2. in the person of his mother; 3. in the person of his brother Daniel. Exercise 12 Discussion points. 1. What can you say about the boy's character? Support your opinion. 2. What do you think of his mother? What is her daily routine like? 3. What takes up most of the boy's day? 4. What activities mentioned by the boy seem to be most entertaining to you? Why? Exercise 13 I. Discuss activities we do as part of our daily/weekly routine. In five minutes write down as many things as you can think of.You should write your routines in full sentences, using adverbs of frequency. Read out your list to the class and delete anything you have written down which someone else has as well. Thus make a list of your special routines, that no one else has. > Pattern: I hove parties every week. II. Express your own feelings about the special routines of your fellow students. Use the expressions of likes and dislikes. > Pattern: — I have parties every week. — Well, to be h onest/No, I'm not too keen on arranging parties every week. Exercise 14 Tell about your daily routine when a child.Compare it with your present daily routine. Think about the following points: studies, everyday activities, leisure activities, food/clothes, likes/dislikes. Use the following phrases: When a child, I used to †¦ , but now I †¦ I never used to †¦ I spent most of my time †¦ , but now I †¦ I was/am keen on †¦ I was/am a †¦ addict. I couldn't/can't live without †¦ The best treat of all was/is †¦ I found †¦ enjoyable, but now I find †¦ boring/interesting. I've decided to give up †¦ But I'm not going to give up †¦ Exercise 15 I.Read the following text and get ready to answer the questions. John Naylor, 24, is a successful businessman. Let's follow him through a typical day. The alarm clock goes off at 7:00 a. m. John jolts out of bed at the same time. The automatic coffee maker kicks on in the kitchen. He jumps in the shower, shaves, opens one of the half-dozen boxes of freshly laundered white shirts waiting on the shelf, finishes dressing, and pours a cup of coffee. He sits down to a piece of whole wheat toast while he nips through the Fleet Street Journal. It takes him about 15 minutes to wake up and get ready.His briefcase in one hand and gym bag in the other, he hops in the car, ready to start the day. He clocks in at exactly 7:45 a. m. He takes a seat in front of the computer and prepares for hours of phone calls and meetings that occupy his mornings. At noon John rashes to the health club where he strips off the grey suit and changes into his T-shirt, shorts and the latest in design running shoes for tennis. In an hour he is sitting in the club dining room where he has scheduled lunch with a potential client. They discuss business over sparkling water, pasta and a cup of coffee.At 2:30 p. m. he is back at his office, eager for several more hours of frantic meetings and phone calls. A t 6:00 p. m. John phones out for delivery of dinner to keep him going through the next two to three hours he'll spend at his office. John gets home at 10:00 p. m. just in time to sit down to a bowl of frozen yoghurt and a reran of this season's most popular drama series before turning in. II. Make brief notes of John's daily routine. Use these times as a guide. 7:00 7:45 2:30 10:00 7:15 12:00 6:00 – 9:00 1:00 III.Answer the following questions: 1. What takes up most of his time? 2. What things do you dislike about his daily routine? 3. Is his daily routine always the same? 4. Is his daily routine very different from yours? How? 5. What do you think about his social life? What daily routine may his girlfriend have? 6. Is he happy? Why? 7. What problems may arise if John gets married and starts a family? Will children fit into this hectic schedule? IV. Work in groups of two. Student A: You are going to interview John. Ask him questions about his daily routine, and ask anything else you like. (E. g.How he feels about his life, what he likes about his work, his future plans). Student B: You are John. Answer the interviewer's questions about your daily routine. When you are asked about other things, invent suitable answers. Exercise 16 Pair work: Talk about your busiest day. Ask the following and more: 1. What's your busiest day? 2. What do you usually do? 3. What time do you get up? 4. Where do you usually have breakfast, lunch? 5. What do you usually do after classes? 6. What time do you usually go home? 7. What do you do at the end of the day? 8. What do you do in your spare time? . What time do you usually go to bed? 10. What activities do you enjoy? Which do you dislike? Exercise 17 Imagine you can do what you like and work where you want. Plan your daily routine. When you are ready tell the class. Exercise 18 I. Carry out a survey titled â€Å"How to Organise Your Day†. Ask your fellow students: 1. how much time they spend: working, sleeping, wa shing and getting dressed, eating and drinking, shopping, travelling, doing housework, studying, reading, watching TV or listening to the radio, performing other leisure activities, doing nothing; 2. hich activities they enjoy doing and how long they spend on them; 3. which activities they do not enjoy doing and how long they spend on them; 4. if there is something they don't have time to do or would like to spend more time doing; 5. if there is some way they could organise their time differently and how. II. Make notes and analyse the results of the investigation. Write a short report giving the results of your survey. Use words and expressions like these: None of†¦ A great many of†¦ Hardly any of†¦ Some of†¦ Very few of†¦ A large number of. Not many of†¦A lot of†¦ The majority of†¦ III. Use the following phrases for summarising or generalising: on the whole, †¦ at first glance, †¦ apparently, †¦ it seems/appears that †¦ g enerally, †¦ IV. When you have finished your report, show it to the other students in the class and discuss. Exercise 19 Retell the following text in English. , ?, . , ? . ? . ? , ? . : ? , , . , , ? ? ? , , . ? , , — , , ? , ? , ? ? , . ? , , ? — . . ? , ? . ? , , ? , ? . ? , . - , ? , ? - , ? . , , ? - , ? ? . , , , , ? ? . , ? , ? , , ? ? , , . ? ? . ? , ? ! †¦ ? , †¦ ? , , ? , . , — ? ? . ? , — ? ? . , — ? ? . , ? . ? ? , ? , , ? . ? — , ? - , , . ? ? , ? ? , ? , -. ? . , ? ? . ? ? , ? ? . ? ? . . — - .  «  » — . —  «  » :  «- ? ?  ». ? , , ? ? . (?. .  « ? ?  » ) Exercise 20 I. Read the list of English idioms and find their Russian equivalents in the econd list. A. To be back on track; a whole good hour; from time to time; year in, year out; on the run; in the dead of night; day in, day out; to play the fool; to twiddle one's thumbs. B. ; ; ? ; ? ; ; ; ; ? ; . II. Use the English idioms in sentences of your own speaking about your daily routine. Exercise 21 I. Match the two halves of each proverb correctly. Translate them into Russian or give their Russian equivalents.An early bird catches Jack a dull boy Time is two things at once Never put off till tomorrow a virtue Time and tide a worm Better late money Everyday is not what you can do today No man can do wait for no man All work and no play makes Sunday Punctuality is than never II. Make up a story to illustrate one of these proverbs. Exercise 22 Translate the quotations and comment upon them. ‘A day is a miniature eternity. ‘ Ralph Emerson ‘Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ‘ Ralph Emerson ‘Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. ‘ Jean-Paul Sartre ‘The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. ‘Euripides ‘Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. ‘ Emile Coue Exercise 23 Role-play â€Å"Making a TV Programme†. Setting: The streets of a big modern city. Situation: A television crew is making a programme about different lifestyles. The journalists stop people in the street and interview them. They ask questions about their daily routine. They try to find out what time they get up, whether they get enough sleep, what they have for breakfast/dinner/supper, whether they are fussy about food, how they get to work, whether they are late for work, what time they come back home, who does the cooking/cleaning/shopping/washing, etc. whether they are more awake in the morning or in the evening, what time the y go to bed, what they do to keep fit, what they do to relax, whether they have any kind of social life, what puts them in a good mood, whether their daily routine is always the same. Characters: Card I—II — Christian and Christine, the journalists. Card III—IV — Daniel and Diana, an actor and an actress. Famous and well-known. Card V — Sheppard, a university student. Not very diligent. Card VI — Shirley, a model. Willing to make a career. Card VII — Patricia, a school teacher. Very responsible. Card VIII — Felicia, a housewife. Has a large family. Card IX — Raymond, a businessman. Very busy and very rich. Card X — Letitia, a waitress in a restaurant. Young and carefree. Card XI — Simon, a professional driver.Works hard and long hours. WRITING Exercise 1 Learn the spelling of the words in bold type from Introductory Reading and exercise 1 on page 68 and be ready to write a dictation. Exercise 2 Write a shor t description of a) your busiest day; b) your day off; c) your favourite day in the form of diary notes. Follow the pattern: Exercise 3 Write a composition or an essay on one of the following topics. 1. The Day Everything Went Wrong. 2. How I Organise My Time. 3. The Day Before You Came. (ABBA) 4. ‘Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow. ‘ (O. Wilde) 5. The Day of a Person Is a Picture of This Person. Note: Punctuation.In writing it is very important to observe correct punctuation marks. A full stop is put: 1) at the end of sentences; 2) in decimals (e. g. 3. 5 — three point five). A comma separates: 1) homogeneous parts of the sentence if there are more than three members (e. g. I saw a house, a garden, and a car); 2) parentheses (e. g. The story, to put it mildly, is not nice); 3) Nominative Absolute Constructions (e. g. The play over, the audience left the hall); 4) appositions (e. g. Byron, one of the greatest English poets, was bo rn in 1788); 5) interjections (e. g. Oh, you are right! ); 6) coordinate clauses joined by and, but, or, nor, for, while, whereas, etc. (e. g.The speaker was disappointed, but the audience was pleased); 7) attributive clauses in complex sentences if they are commenting (e. g. The Thames, which runs through London, is quite slow. Compare with a defining clause where no comma is needed — The river that/which runs through London is quite slow); 8) adverbial clauses introduced by if, when, because, though, etc. (e. g. If it is true, we are having good luck); 9) inverted clauses (e. g. Hardly had she entered, they fired questions at her); 10) in whole numbers (e. g. 25,500 — twenty five thousand five hundred). Object clauses are not separated by commas (e. g. He asked what he should do). To be continued on page 140. Daily Routine Daily Routine TEXT One Day of Peter's life (Story by Peter and Heidi Elliott) I usually manage to be first at waking up — my brother Daniel (he's six) would stay in bed until seven o'clock. Mum can't understand it but it seems obvious to me that this is when the day starts, so why miss the beginning? After a quick warm-up and a chat we creep downstairs to see what's been left around from the night before, although Mum is wise to this and has usually put away anything really interesting.The refrigerator is always a fairly good place to start, and cold rice pudding tastes much better for breakfast than it does for pudding. 1 In fact I've tried most things at this hour, from cold stuffed marrow to raw sausages; some of it isn't recommendable and some of it can get you into a lot of trouble. Anyway, I can always make my own breakfast of cereals with plenty of sugar and not much milk. We made Mum's2 the other day but she didn't like the chopped peppercorns and Oxos3 that we added t o it. Mind you, it didn't look too good.Well, just when we get into a good game, Mum comes down and says that we have to put all the furniture back and get dressed. I always have the last say in what I'm going to wear, which is always jeans and a tee-shirt. I'm just not relaxed if I'm wearing smart trousers. I like a loose jacket and a hat; my old cowboy hat is a bit misshapen but I do not mind that, it seems to put me in the right mood for the day. It's time to take Daniel to school. I really enjoy this trip at the moment because I've got a super little bike which I ride there and back.Well, I don't exactly ride it because both pedals have fallen off and the chain has snapped, so now it's more like a hobby-bike. I use my feet for brakes and propulsion. 4 It works very well and my balance is now so good that I can ride my brother's big bike if someone helps me to get on and off. When we get to Daniel's school I have a race around the playground and annoy a few of Dan's friends befor e the whistle goes, and then, as the trip home is up-hill and rather boring. Mum usually has to give me a push.I generally play then, or visit a friend down the lane whose brother has some super toys, which compensates for the fact that she's a girl. 5 Lunch can vary from day to day because I'm quite fussy about my food. I find it hard to sit still long enough to eat a whole dinner, so sometimes Mum reads a book to me which makes it much more enjoyable, and if the story is very good, I've even been known to eat things that I didn't think I liked. I suppose that the way I spend my day must seem fairly routine to some people, but I like to use it to the full no matter what I'm doing.I do everything with enthusiasm — whether constructing a rocket with bricks or practising gymnastics on the bed or just sliding down the banisters, and I've noticed that people who are older than me don't seem to have half as much fun, so I say that I'm going to enjoy myself for as long as possible. The afternoons are unpredictable. On a fine day I may go swimming or visit a park or the shops. Personally, I think the shops are best, especially the ones with toys in. My mother just doesn't seem to understand that I need them all, anyway I have a good try with as many as I can before getting into trouble with the assistant.Then I move on to the sweets, which I generally get one of. Friends' houses can be a good source of entertainment, although if they haven't got any children it can be a bit frustrating not being allowed to touch anything. Luckily most of mother's friends have got children. The best treat of all, though, is visiting Nanny. 6 She's got much more time to spend on you than parents have and I do all sorts of things there. I have made some very tasty cakes in Nanny's kitchen and she doesn't mind how much mess goes on the floor. 7 I also enjoy gardening with her. She is extremely patient with my pruning efforts. So my afternoons vary until we collect my brother from school at 3. 30. He's not so much fun in the afternoons, but I do a bit of insect searching on the way home and collect any interesting sticks and stones that I think I could use in our small garden. My bedtime is fixed at 7. 30 and to be honest I'm just about ready for it by then. After doing my duty — by eating some tea — I play for a while or watch television. I'm not a TV addict but cartoons I do enjoy9 and my favorite programme is Tarzan. When this is on I strip off to my underpants and really get into the part. I'm fantastically brave. ) I then have a trip down a shark-infested river10 at bath time or practice swimming in the bath, but my room is rather restricted and Mum doesn't appreciate how far I get the water up the wall. 11 So, when the water has got fairly cold, I reluctantly agree to get out and put my pyjamas on. I don't like cleaning my teeth but I do. Mum has to read a book at bedtime: it gives me a few minutes to have a last play and select my favouri te toys before the light goes out. After all, even in my dreams I've had to fight some pretty fierce tigers. Proper NamesDaniel [‘d{[email  protected]] — Tarzan [‘t? z{n] — Vocabulary Notes 1. †¦ than it does for pudding — †¦ . 2. †¦ we made Mum's the other day — . 3. Oxos —  «Ã‚ » (. : ) 4. I use my feet for brakes and propulsion. — ? ? . 5. †¦ visit a friend down the lane whose brother has some super toys, which compensates for the fact that she's a girl. — †¦ ? , ; ? , ? ? , — . . Nanny — : (. : ?  «Ã‚ »). 7. She doesn't mind how much mess goes on the floor. — , . 8. †¦ she is extremely patient with my pruning efforts. — ? ? . 9. †¦ but cartoons I do enjoy †¦ — †¦ . 10. shark-infested — . 11. Mum doesn't appreciate how far I get the water up the wall. — , ? . Com prehension Check 1.Why does the child wake up first? 2. What do the brothers do after a warm-up and a chat? 3. What does the child like to wear? 4. Why does the boy enjoy his trip to Daniel's school? 5. Is he fussy about his food? 6. Does the boy find his days boring? 7. How does he spend the afternoons? 8. Whom does he enjoy visiting most? Why? 9. When does the boy go to bed? 10. Is he a TV addict? 11. How does the boy entertain himself at bathtime? 12. What does he do before the light goes out? . Phonetic Text Drills 0 Exercise 1 Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.Obvious, to creep, stuffed, marrow, raw, recommendable, cereals, peppercorns, loose, cowboy, misshapen, super, propulsion, balance, to compensate, to vary, enthusiasm, gymnastics, banister, unpredictable, frustrating, treat, pruning, insect, addict, cartoon, underpants, appreciate, reluctantly, pyjamas, fierce. 0 Exercise 2 Pronounce the words or phrases where the following clusters occur. 1. plos ive + plosive managed to be, creep downstairs, good place, and cold rice, look too, good game, get dressed, to take Daniel, hard to sit, bedtime, but cartoons, trip down, and put. 2. plosive + w t waking up, quick warm-up, that we added, just when, that we, it works, a rocket with bricks, patient with. 3. plosive + r brother, creep, breakfast, tried, trouble, trousers, trip, brakes, propulsion, unpredictable, try, children, treat, extremely, programme, brave, practise, agree, pretty. 4. plosive + s would stay, it seems, starts, what's, tastes, last say, its time, sit still, must seem, good source, fight some. 0 Exercise 3 Avoid false assimilation in the clusters: 1. z + s he's six, has snapped, has some. 2. voiceless plosive + D that this, at the moment, noticed that, think the shops. . s/z + D miss the beginning, Mum's the other day, as the trip, suppose that. 0 Exercise 4 Practise the pronunciation of predicative structures. It's ‘time to ‘take ‘Daniel to school. || The ,after'noons are ‘unpre'dictable. || The ‘best ‘treat of all, | though, | is ‘visiting Nanny. || My bedtime is ‘fixed at ‘seven hirty | and | to be honest | I'm ‘just a'bout eady for it by ,then. || I'm ‘not a ‘TV addict | but car'toons I ‘do en'joy | and my ‘favourite ‘programme is Tarzan. || EXERCISES Exercise 1 Reproduce the sentences in which the following words and expressions are used. o wake up to vary from day to day to leave around to use the day to the full to get somebody into trouble to do everything with enthusiasm to have the last say in to be a good source of something entertainment to be relaxed the best treat to put somebody in the to be a TV addict right mood oring to strip off to be fussy about something bedtime Exercise 2 Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons. 1. The child is the last to wake up. 2. In the kitchen the boy tries a lot of things from co ld mar row to raw sausages. 3. The child's mother has the last say in what he's going to wear. 4. The boy likes to wear smart suits. 5. He finds his trip to Daniel's school boring. 6. The boy is fussy about his food. 7.The child's routine is boring and predictable. 8. He likes spending his time in the shops. 9. The child enjoys visiting Nanny. 10. He is a TV addict. 11. The child enjoys swimming in the bath. Exercise 3 I. Give the three forms of the irregular verbs from the text: Creep, put, get, ride, go, give, find, read, think, slide, make, fight. II. Give the past form of the regular verbs: Manage, stay, start, add, enjoy, snap, use, annoy, visit, compensate, vary, suppose, construct, practise, seem, touch, mind, collect, search, fix, watch, strip, appreciate, agree, select.Exercise 4 Fill the gaps in these sentences with the suitable words below. I. frustrating unpredictable loose smart boring relaxed fussy 1. She likes to feel comfortable and relaxed in clothes, that's why she always wears †¦ sweaters and jackets and not †¦ suits. 2. Jane is fed up with this †¦ town — all they have is a bar, a cinema and a Chinese restaurant. 3. There must be nothing more †¦ than having a job you don't like. 4. You can't feel †¦ and enjoy yourself if there are exams coming. 5.Since the time she was ill, she's been †¦ about what she eats. 6. She behaves like the weather in Great Britain; she's so †¦ II. to creep to strip off to vary to select to annoy to leave around 1. There was a large number of beautiful toys and dolls in the shop and it took the girl a lot of time †¦ one. 2. Someone †¦ into the house and stole jewellery. 3. She ran upstairs,†¦ her wet jeans and sweater and pulled on a dressing gown. 4. I don't want to stay in the house with these two screaming kids. They †¦ me. 5. To make kids eat, you should †¦ he menu as much as possible. 6. Please, don't†¦ your toys †¦ . I have to put them away before I can do the cleaning. Exercise 5 Find in the text words and expressions similar in meaning to the italicized ones. 1. Somehow he got involved in a boring conversation about food prices. 2. I always start my day with morning exercises and a cold shower. And, of course, I very much like a cup of hot coffee. 3. Nurses should do all they can to make their patients feel at ease. 4. The child abandoned his favourite toy; a little squirrel in the grass had become better entertainment. . When I go to the countryside I like to observe insects. 6. I always go to bed at half past seven and nothing can change my habit. 7. I spent my holiday in Spain and enjoyed it fully. 8. I can't think of anything more tedious than washing and cooking for the family all day long. 9. I feel that you are doing that unwillingly. 10. My brother is always enthusiastic, no matter what he is doing — playing or working. 11. We moved quietly upstairs so as not to wake the baby. 12. Morning exercis es may be hard work, but they can also be great fun. 3. A meal in a restaurant came as a real pleasure after all the food at the university. 14. You are just saying that to irritate me. 15. In the afternoons Mother takes my sister from school. Exercise 6 Find in the text sentences containing: I. synonyms and synonymous expressions for the following: depressing untidiness to pick somebody up to take off the clothes physical exercises to be different II. words or phrases with the opposite meaning: to get out of bed to get undressed ot much boring to stay out of trouble predictable Exercise 7 Find in the text the English equivalents of the following words and expressions. A. ; ? ; ; ; ; ; ( -); ; ; ; ? ; ; ? 7. 30; ; -; ; ; ; ; ; ; . ?. ? ; ; ; ; - ; (? ); ; ? ; ; ; ? ; ; ; ; . Exercise 8 Express the same idea using different wording and grammar. 1. After a quick warm-up and a chat, we creep downstairs to see what's been left around fr om the night before. 2. I suppose the way I spend my day must seem fairly routine to some people, but I like to use it to the full. . Personally, I think the shops are best, especially the ones with toys in. 4. Friends' houses can be a good source of entertainment. 5. I'm not a TV addict but cartoons I do enjoy and my favourite programme is Tarzan. 6. The best treat of all is visiting Nanny. 7. She is extremely patient with my pruning efforts. 8. When Tarzan is on I strip off to my underpants and really get into the part. 9. I then have a trip down a shark-infested river at bathtime or practise swimming in the bath, but my room is rather restricted and mum doesn't appreciate how far I get the water up the wall. 10.Mum has to read a book at bedtime, it gives me a few minutes to have a last play and select my favourite toys before the light goes out. Exercise 9 1. Draw a chart like the one below and arrange the child's activities into two columns. Enjoyable Boring II. After you have f inished the chart, compare it with the rest of the class. Discuss the child's activities using the following words: Interesting, creative, exciting, good fun, dangerous, boring, good exercise, relaxing, crazy, wonderful, enjoyable, terrible. Start your discussion with the following phrases: I think/I don't think he enjoys/likes †¦It must be dangerous/interesting to swim/to play†¦ etc. That sounds/does not sound like much fan/crazy†¦ etc. I'd like to try †¦ myself. He doesn't mind †¦ If I had time, I'd like to †¦ Exercise 10 Speak about your daily activities using the patterns given below. 1. I'm not a TV addict/ardent reader, etc. but cartoons/novels, etc. I do enjoy. 2. I don't like cleaning my teeth/watching newsreels, etc. but I do. 3. I find it hard to sit still long enough/to work in the library, etc. 4. It can be a bit frustrating not being allowed to touch anything/to go to a disco, etc.Exercise 11 Speak about the child's daily routine: 1. in the third person; 2. in the person of his mother; 3. in the person of his brother Daniel. Exercise 12 Discussion points. 1. What can you say about the boy's character? Support your opinion. 2. What do you think of his mother? What is her daily routine like? 3. What takes up most of the boy's day? 4. What activities mentioned by the boy seem to be most entertaining to you? Why? Exercise 13 I. Discuss activities we do as part of our daily/weekly routine. In five minutes write down as many things as you can think of.You should write your routines in full sentences, using adverbs of frequency. Read out your list to the class and delete anything you have written down which someone else has as well. Thus make a list of your special routines, that no one else has. > Pattern: I hove parties every week. II. Express your own feelings about the special routines of your fellow students. Use the expressions of likes and dislikes. > Pattern: — I have parties every week. — Well, to be h onest/No, I'm not too keen on arranging parties every week. Exercise 14 Tell about your daily routine when a child.Compare it with your present daily routine. Think about the following points: studies, everyday activities, leisure activities, food/clothes, likes/dislikes. Use the following phrases: When a child, I used to †¦ , but now I †¦ I never used to †¦ I spent most of my time †¦ , but now I †¦ I was/am keen on †¦ I was/am a †¦ addict. I couldn't/can't live without †¦ The best treat of all was/is †¦ I found †¦ enjoyable, but now I find †¦ boring/interesting. I've decided to give up †¦ But I'm not going to give up †¦ Exercise 15 I.Read the following text and get ready to answer the questions. John Naylor, 24, is a successful businessman. Let's follow him through a typical day. The alarm clock goes off at 7:00 a. m. John jolts out of bed at the same time. The automatic coffee maker kicks on in the kitchen. He jumps in the shower, shaves, opens one of the half-dozen boxes of freshly laundered white shirts waiting on the shelf, finishes dressing, and pours a cup of coffee. He sits down to a piece of whole wheat toast while he nips through the Fleet Street Journal. It takes him about 15 minutes to wake up and get ready.His briefcase in one hand and gym bag in the other, he hops in the car, ready to start the day. He clocks in at exactly 7:45 a. m. He takes a seat in front of the computer and prepares for hours of phone calls and meetings that occupy his mornings. At noon John rashes to the health club where he strips off the grey suit and changes into his T-shirt, shorts and the latest in design running shoes for tennis. In an hour he is sitting in the club dining room where he has scheduled lunch with a potential client. They discuss business over sparkling water, pasta and a cup of coffee.At 2:30 p. m. he is back at his office, eager for several more hours of frantic meetings and phone calls. A t 6:00 p. m. John phones out for delivery of dinner to keep him going through the next two to three hours he'll spend at his office. John gets home at 10:00 p. m. just in time to sit down to a bowl of frozen yoghurt and a reran of this season's most popular drama series before turning in. II. Make brief notes of John's daily routine. Use these times as a guide. 7:00 7:45 2:30 10:00 7:15 12:00 6:00 – 9:00 1:00 III.Answer the following questions: 1. What takes up most of his time? 2. What things do you dislike about his daily routine? 3. Is his daily routine always the same? 4. Is his daily routine very different from yours? How? 5. What do you think about his social life? What daily routine may his girlfriend have? 6. Is he happy? Why? 7. What problems may arise if John gets married and starts a family? Will children fit into this hectic schedule? IV. Work in groups of two. Student A: You are going to interview John. Ask him questions about his daily routine, and ask anything else you like. (E. g.How he feels about his life, what he likes about his work, his future plans). Student B: You are John. Answer the interviewer's questions about your daily routine. When you are asked about other things, invent suitable answers. Exercise 16 Pair work: Talk about your busiest day. Ask the following and more: 1. What's your busiest day? 2. What do you usually do? 3. What time do you get up? 4. Where do you usually have breakfast, lunch? 5. What do you usually do after classes? 6. What time do you usually go home? 7. What do you do at the end of the day? 8. What do you do in your spare time? . What time do you usually go to bed? 10. What activities do you enjoy? Which do you dislike? Exercise 17 Imagine you can do what you like and work where you want. Plan your daily routine. When you are ready tell the class. Exercise 18 I. Carry out a survey titled â€Å"How to Organise Your Day†. Ask your fellow students: 1. how much time they spend: working, sleeping, wa shing and getting dressed, eating and drinking, shopping, travelling, doing housework, studying, reading, watching TV or listening to the radio, performing other leisure activities, doing nothing; 2. hich activities they enjoy doing and how long they spend on them; 3. which activities they do not enjoy doing and how long they spend on them; 4. if there is something they don't have time to do or would like to spend more time doing; 5. if there is some way they could organise their time differently and how. II. Make notes and analyse the results of the investigation. Write a short report giving the results of your survey. Use words and expressions like these: None of†¦ A great many of†¦ Hardly any of†¦ Some of†¦ Very few of†¦ A large number of. Not many of†¦A lot of†¦ The majority of†¦ III. Use the following phrases for summarising or generalising: on the whole, †¦ at first glance, †¦ apparently, †¦ it seems/appears that †¦ g enerally, †¦ IV. When you have finished your report, show it to the other students in the class and discuss. Exercise 19 Retell the following text in English. , ?, . , ? . ? . ? , ? . : ? , , . , , ? ? ? , , . ? , , — , , ? , ? , ? ? , . ? , , ? — . . ? , ? . ? , , ? , ? . ? , . - , ? , ? - , ? . , , ? - , ? ? . , , , , ? ? . , ? , ? , , ? ? , , . ? ? . ? , ? ! †¦ ? , †¦ ? , , ? , . , — ? ? . ? , — ? ? . , — ? ? . , ? . ? ? , ? , , ? . ? — , ? - , , . ? ? , ? ? , ? , -. ? . , ? ? . ? ? , ? ? . ? ? . . — - .  «  » — . —  «  » :  «- ? ?  ». ? , , ? ? . (?. .  « ? ?  » ) Exercise 20 I. Read the list of English idioms and find their Russian equivalents in the econd list. A. To be back on track; a whole good hour; from time to time; year in, year out; on the run; in the dead of night; day in, day out; to play the fool; to twiddle one's thumbs. B. ; ; ? ; ? ; ; ; ; ? ; . II. Use the English idioms in sentences of your own speaking about your daily routine. Exercise 21 I. Match the two halves of each proverb correctly. Translate them into Russian or give their Russian equivalents.An early bird catches Jack a dull boy Time is two things at once Never put off till tomorrow a virtue Time and tide a worm Better late money Everyday is not what you can do today No man can do wait for no man All work and no play makes Sunday Punctuality is than never II. Make up a story to illustrate one of these proverbs. Exercise 22 Translate the quotations and comment upon them. ‘A day is a miniature eternity. ‘ Ralph Emerson ‘Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ‘ Ralph Emerson ‘Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. ‘ Jean-Paul Sartre ‘The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. ‘Euripides ‘Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. ‘ Emile Coue Exercise 23 Role-play â€Å"Making a TV Programme†. Setting: The streets of a big modern city. Situation: A television crew is making a programme about different lifestyles. The journalists stop people in the street and interview them. They ask questions about their daily routine. They try to find out what time they get up, whether they get enough sleep, what they have for breakfast/dinner/supper, whether they are fussy about food, how they get to work, whether they are late for work, what time they come back home, who does the cooking/cleaning/shopping/washing, etc. whether they are more awake in the morning or in the evening, what time the y go to bed, what they do to keep fit, what they do to relax, whether they have any kind of social life, what puts them in a good mood, whether their daily routine is always the same. Characters: Card I—II — Christian and Christine, the journalists. Card III—IV — Daniel and Diana, an actor and an actress. Famous and well-known. Card V — Sheppard, a university student. Not very diligent. Card VI — Shirley, a model. Willing to make a career. Card VII — Patricia, a school teacher. Very responsible. Card VIII — Felicia, a housewife. Has a large family. Card IX — Raymond, a businessman. Very busy and very rich. Card X — Letitia, a waitress in a restaurant. Young and carefree. Card XI — Simon, a professional driver.Works hard and long hours. WRITING Exercise 1 Learn the spelling of the words in bold type from Introductory Reading and exercise 1 on page 68 and be ready to write a dictation. Exercise 2 Write a shor t description of a) your busiest day; b) your day off; c) your favourite day in the form of diary notes. Follow the pattern: Exercise 3 Write a composition or an essay on one of the following topics. 1. The Day Everything Went Wrong. 2. How I Organise My Time. 3. The Day Before You Came. (ABBA) 4. ‘Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow. ‘ (O. Wilde) 5. The Day of a Person Is a Picture of This Person. Note: Punctuation.In writing it is very important to observe correct punctuation marks. A full stop is put: 1) at the end of sentences; 2) in decimals (e. g. 3. 5 — three point five). A comma separates: 1) homogeneous parts of the sentence if there are more than three members (e. g. I saw a house, a garden, and a car); 2) parentheses (e. g. The story, to put it mildly, is not nice); 3) Nominative Absolute Constructions (e. g. The play over, the audience left the hall); 4) appositions (e. g. Byron, one of the greatest English poets, was bo rn in 1788); 5) interjections (e. g. Oh, you are right! ); 6) coordinate clauses joined by and, but, or, nor, for, while, whereas, etc. (e. g.The speaker was disappointed, but the audience was pleased); 7) attributive clauses in complex sentences if they are commenting (e. g. The Thames, which runs through London, is quite slow. Compare with a defining clause where no comma is needed — The river that/which runs through London is quite slow); 8) adverbial clauses introduced by if, when, because, though, etc. (e. g. If it is true, we are having good luck); 9) inverted clauses (e. g. Hardly had she entered, they fired questions at her); 10) in whole numbers (e. g. 25,500 — twenty five thousand five hundred). Object clauses are not separated by commas (e. g. He asked what he should do). To be continued on page 140.

Manage Risk Essay

Assessment activity 1: Review organisational processes, procedures and requirements for undertaking risk management 1. Create your own definitions for the following terms: a) Risk: A probability or threat of damage, injury, liability, loss, or any other negative occurrence that is caused by external or internal vulnerabilities, and that may be avoided through preemptive action. b) Risk management: The identification, analysis, assessment, control, and avoidance, minimization, or elimination of unacceptable risks. c) Risk appetite: The amount a business is willing to place at risk in the pursuit of its objectives d) Risk capacity: The amount a business is capable of loosing before it endangers its own sustainability 2. Comment on the following saying in relation to the risk management policies and practices of an organisation: â€Å" Organisations that fail to plan, plan to fail† If an organization does not have a risk plan is likely that any risk occurring with negative consequences occur organization. If the organization has a risk prevention plan is very likely that the risk does not occur and the organization and its workers could produce kno w how to deal with the negative consequences of that risk to minimize that consequences. Assessment activity 2: Determine scope for risk management process Case study Advantages: It will be holistic. Disadvantages: It will require extensive resources to conduct it properly, especially if the scope of the risk management is large and covers a wide range of activities across the divisions; very large number of policies and procedures; and is taking into account differences in each state, territory, country. The scope of a risk management strategy is entirely reflective of the organisation, its activities and risk profile. It can also be indicative of the following: past history, knowledge and experience of risk management  held by senior management, available resources, external environmental factors. Assessment activity 3: Identify internal and external stakeholders and their issues Why is it advantageous to consider stakeholders’ issues throughout the risk management process design? Stakeholders can contribute ideas, energy, skills, identifying risks and take steps to effectively manage them. Stakeholders can play an influential role in the direction and performance of t he organisation. Assessment activity 4: Review political, economic, social, legal, technological and policy context Consider your own organisation’s risk profile and comment on the influence/impact each of the following factors has on it: – Political: Through legislative and regulatory changes, political unrest, corruption and contractual issues. – Economic: Through economic booming / downturn, interest rate. – Social: Through aging population, migration, societal trends. – Legal: Through legislation changes, guidelines, code of practice. – Technological: Through new technology, consumer behaviour. – Policy: Through activities of the business and the associated risks. Assessment activity 5: Review strengths and weaknesses of existing arrangements 1. Conduct a SWOT analysis for the current risk management practices of an organisation with which you are familiar. SWOT analysis Name of organisation: GRAEL (trucking company) Brief description of core function of the organisation: Strengths: Large installations, staff with enough experience, young fleet vehicles, good prices and delivery times, national coverage. Weaknesses: High staff cost, low technological level, small business size. Opportunities: Short delivery times, satisfied costumer, implementation of more efficient technologies, opening new markets. Threats: New competitors, strict rules, lower prices in the market, little capacity of investment. I think this analysis is quite adequate and accurate because goals of this company is to grow in the freight market and satisfying the customer with meeting deadlines and the decreasing cost. if the business knows what his weaknesses and threats can be set to convert these shares in just the opposite, that is, opportunities and strengths. Assessment activity 6: Document critical success factors, goals or objectives for area included in scope 1. Case study: Nautilus Boat Hire The business has to establish specific and achievable goals because otherwise the risk management team and the individuals in it will have no direction, nothing to aim for. Goals provide a focus and purpose for action. In this case we have to turn weaknesses into strengths and threats into opportunities and all this has to be specific, tangible and measurable. Examples of how managing risk that Nautilus Boat Hire could adopt: – Provide of life jacket to all crew of the boat. – Provide of guide service in every trip. – Restructure the boats to make their use easier. Buy boats with easier use. – Distributed to each passenger a pamphlet advising the use of protective sun cream and even offering to purchase such product also sell bottles of water. – Advertise of possible noise pollution. All this actions could help our business to grow, manage risk, and achieve goals. Assessment activity 7: Obtain support for risk management activities 1. Getting people on board and keeping them engaged is a key part of managing risk. Explain, in our own words, the importance of getting support for risk management plans and processes. In a business is very important getting support for risk management plans and processes because if people do not understand the consequences of not managing risk, they are likely to view the process as more administration that takes them away from performing their core duties. 2. Create your own checklist for the qualities of a risk management champion. – Commitment and belief that managing risk is a good thing to do. – An ability to confidently speak about risk and its management. – Credibility within the business, team, department. Assessment activity 14: Evaluate and prioritise risk for treatment 1. Using the severity and likelihood matrix that you created for Nautilus Boat Hire, list the risks in priority order and give reasons for your rankings. 1 º. People who are not strong swimmers, especially children, drowning. Reasons: Negative impact on the business and the customer. May cause the closure. 2 º. Clients making a lot of noise when moored and residents complaining. Reason: Negative impact on the business. May cause the closure for noise pollution. 3 º. Houseboat clients getting lost and/or stuck on sandbanks. Reason: Negative impact on the business. Bad image for the business. 4 º. Clients finding the houseboat very difficult to control in high winds resulting in damage to the houseboat and/or land structures. Reason: Negative impact on the business. A part of the bad image for the business may be a fee arrangement of these houseboats. 5 º. Clients being sunburned and dehydrated on hot, sunny d ays. Reason: Risk is likely high to occur but with a low index of business impact. 2. Discuss some of the problems that you might encounter when trying to determine priority of risks. The problem is when you determine that there are several risks with the same degree of probability of occurrence and with the same degree of severity when it occurs. In this case the problem that we find is which risk we have to manage first. Assessment activity 15: Determine and select most appropriate options for treating risks 1. In your own words, describe what the ALARP principle means and give an example of it in practice. When controls are applied to a risk, it might be lowered to a level that is considered tolerable. If the staff of a chemical company uses the appropriate protective clothing, the risk of physical damage occurs by the use of chemicals will be less than if you do not use the protective clothing. 2. Give examples of risk that could be managed by each of the following treatment strategie s a. Avoid the risk: Choose not to borrow money to finance a project: Expand the facilities of the company. If I cannot finance  the expansion project cannot be carried out. b. Reduce the risk: Install warning signs to alert people of a possible risk: A construction company that is building a building has to signal alerts the dangers of possible risks. c. Share the risk: Contract multiple suppliers for each product: A company dedicated to the manufacture of given product has to have different suppliers to ensure that you can make this product even if some of the provider fails to supply the raw material. d. Retain the risk: Agree that the small risk of a client defaulting on payment in worth taking to obtain a new line of business that can then be used to prospect for other clients: The risk is very small so it doesn’t influence in the new line of business. 3. Describe a situation from your own experience where you applied a control to a risk. Explain the nature of the risk, which type of control that you chose to use, what you actually did and how successful it was. When moving heavy furniture you must use appropriate such as a forklift mechanisms and you have to put the most appropriate posture for lifting heavy furniture to avoid damaging the back. You need to wear a protective boots to prevent falling objects cause injury. Assessment activity 16: Develop an action plan for implementing risk treatment 1. Use the template below, create an example action plan to show how you would implement 2 risk management strategies of your choosing. Assessment activity 17: Communicate risk management processes to relevant parties Case study. Explain who the action plan, and its associated details, needs to be communicated to and when and how this could be best achieved. The action plan must be communicated to all parties who will have a responsibility for actioning or overseeing them. It has to communicate what must or must not be done, who should be doing it, by when and what the consequences are of failing to do it. Abacus Accounting has to communicate  risk management strategies to the staff involved in that business. It has to explain all protocols and procedures contain in the plan. The best way to achieve it, is using two way rather than a one way communication process, â€Å"Feedback†. Communication methods: Face to face discussions, written procedures manual, email, training. Assessment activity 18: Ensure all documentation is in order and appropriately stored. In the space below, list the policies, associated p rocedures and person/s responsible for completing the record-keeping that your organisation has in place for risk management. Assessment activity 19: Implement and monitor action plan 1. Discuss why it is important to monitor an action plan once it has moved into its implementation phase. Should be undertaken with the overall objective of continually improving the organisation’s performance through effective risk management. The monitoring regime should be considered as a key part of the plan development phase. Monitoring allows for any variance against the intended goals to be quickly identified and rectified. 2. Using the review scope and frequency triangle, give at least 2 examples of activities that could be performed at each level Regular checking / continuous monitoring: Proper use of machinery, Compliance schedule by workers Line management / Review: Review the economic performance, Review compliance with internal regulations Audit: Check the quality system, Review the risk plan 3. At what point is it best to consider the monitoring aspect of a risk management plan and what factors should be included? Monitoring allows for  any variance against the intended goals to be quickly identified and rectified. Monitoring factors that should be included: – What date do you need to collect? – How will you ensure that the data is valid and reliable? – How will you know if you are moving towards the goal set? – How will you know when the goal has been reached? – How frequently will you assess the plan? Assessment activity 20: Discuss the following statement: â€Å"Audits conducted by external companies are just another academic exercise designed to create employment for consultants†. I am not agree with this statement because I think that external Audits are necessary sometimes to audit some companies because it is a external company to your company so it is impartial. Choose an external auditor endeavour to find one who: – specialises in your organisation’s industry – is appropriately qualified and experienced – demonstrates the ability to quickly build rapport with workers – is impartial, thorough and investigative Assessment tools 2 (AT2) 1. What is the purpose of the standard AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management? In that standard Risk is defined as â€Å"The effect of uncertainty on objectives†. Risks affecting organizations can have consequences in terms of economic performance and professional reputation, as well as environmental, safety and societal outcomes. Therefore, managing risk effectively helps organizations to perform well in an environment full of uncertainty. AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management provides principles, framework and a process for managing risk. 2. There are a number of Key provisions of relevant legislation and regulations from all levels of government that may affect aspects of business operations. Why is it necessary to have a working knowledge of the legislation involved in business? What is duty of care? A business will face issues if you do not abide by the law. It’s important to have a working knowledge of the legislation involved with your business so that with every move your business makes, you can ensure that you are complying with the laws of the  land. The primary responsibility lies with the person who is conducting the business and is also the responsibility of all staff of the company to know the laws that are involved in the business. 3. What is risk management? Why must risk management procedures be followed? Risk management is a process that enable board of directors, managers, staff and shareholders to have a reasonable degree of confidence that business goals will be achieved within an acceptable level of risk. Risk management is an effort to reduce risk. Risk management activities identify whether there are any risk controls in place, and if so, whether they are adequate. Risk management policies set out, for employees, the instructions and operating procedures that must be followed. 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of carrying out a risk assessment for a whole organisation and its overall operations? On what basis/scope might risk assessments be carried out if they are not carried out for an entire organisations? The advantages of conducting risk assessment for the whole business is that it will be holistic and parts of the business are less likely to be overlooked. It will allow a uniform risk management plan whose sections all work in relation to others and it can be communicated to employees in the same manner and at the same time. Scope of a business’s risk assessment might include: specific projects, specific business units or areas, specific business functions, the external environment, the internal environm ent. 5. Employees with disability have the same rights as other employees to a safe and healthy workplace and they also have the right to workplace modifications or adjustments that ensure their safety. What Acts affords these rights to disabled workers ? What types of adjustments might be required? The Disability Discrimination Act (ADD) 1992 gives disabled workers the right to workplace adjustment. Adjustments might include: Wheelchair ramps, access to safety information I the required format, extra wide exit doors, the provision of special personal protection equipment, the provision of special equipment, changes or modifications to policies and procedures, ergonomic adjustments to work stations, adjusting work schedules. 6. Businesses can take out a variety of insurances that will indemnify them and/or their employees, customers, members of the public in the case of an accident or other adverse occurrence. What types of insurance can they take out? What companies offers  insurance for businesses? Types of insurance: Business insurance, fire insurance, kidnap and ransom insurance, worker’s compensation insurance, life insurance, Directo’s and officer’s insurance, industrial special risk insurance, public liability insurance, motor vehicle fleet insurance, compulsory third party insurance, professional indemnity insurance, key person insurance. Example of companies offering insurance: Allianz, AMP, QBE, GIO, RACV, MLC, AAMI, SGIO, Zurich, Vero, Rural and General. Assessment tool 3 (AT3): Project Part 1- Plan for enterprise risk management: With my project I will develop the study and application of a risk policy for a company that is dedicated to fashion market by own local fashion stores. Before the development of the risk policy I have to make clear what the mission and vision of our business. Mission: to be a leader in the market, offering quality, good service and plenty of outlets offering care and quality of life for people. Vision: To be the retailer that offers the best quality and variety of services and products for sale to customers, generate added value to people with our products. Why do we have to approach risk management? – We anticipate events that may be unexpected or uncontrolled, such as people stop buying any product we sell because the market has entered a new fashion label. – Analysis of business opportunities, or as to open new sales channels, to improve products or to improve our facilities. – Improved performance outcomes due to effective planning, if we know that there are risks to our business address them on time and know we will always have an effective response to address them. – Optimal efficiency and economy. Know how the money is spent and when to spend, eg making a risk analysis can allow me know if I should invest in a particular area or not, or in a particular product or not. – Improved relationship with stakeholders, because all stakeholders must understand the business risks. – If all future events that may occur are provided of course the director or team conducting the study of risk will have a good reputation both inside and outside t he business Through the system of risk management we know how our company is willing to spend to achieve the objectives and how are willing to  lose if it does not address future risks. The scope for risk management will make for this business includes both an internal area of operation of the company as well as an external scope thereof. Internal because I will analyze what are the risks that can find me in my business. External, because I will try to study what are the external factors that may affect my business. For example, an internal factor is the reform and adaptation of shops to allow access for the handicapped. An external factor would be as such can influence the economy in buying fashionable clothes. Therefore when establishing our risk management should take into account the following circumstances: – Political: depending on whether there will be a government or other legislation and other issues that may affect me in varying degrees relating to such licensing to open outlets. – Economic: Depending on how the economy is or the area where I’m shops sell more or less. – Social: Depending on social trends when it comes to fashion I’ll have to adapt the models to these new trends. – Legal : I have to adapt my business to existing legislation. – Technological: I’ll have to adapt production of garments production technologies and even the addition of new tissues. – Policy: Activities of the business and the associated risks. To manage the risk facing a business it is important to identify all of the stakeholders and issues. What are internal and external stakeholder in our business? Internal stakeholder: It would all the staff with which our company, shareholders, management, administrative department, financial department, buying department, marketing department, design department, production and logistics, and all the staff working in stores in different cities where we are set. External stakeholder: Any person who makes the purchase in one of our stores can consider stakeholder. Supplier could be considered as external stakeholder. The government can be considered as a stakeholder in the way laws on trade. Part 2: Identify the risks: Identify the risks through a SWOT diagram Strengths | Weaknesses | – Quality and designed at very reasonable prices. – Strong financial system. Solid and profitable company.- Vertical integration: control over the entire production chain.- Production of garments to be sold. Very little stock. High turnover of product.- Quick delivery to shops.- Variety of models.-  Strong presence in each city.- Stores in the best locations in the city.- Good after sale system. | – Very little advertising system.- Employee wages low- Stores have a poor image abroad.- Stores are not adapted for disabled input.- Clothes sewing defects.- High cost of maintenance shops. | Opportunities | Threats | – Growth of cities due to immigration.- Creating outlets: selling clothes from other seasons at lower prices.- Growing interest in personal image.- Globalized world: others markets.- New technologies. | – Other companies have similar products with good quality and good prices.- Increased competition in the sector.- Demanding customer: People do not like to dress like others.- Other businesses have online shops.-Climatic diversity: different climates that make manufacturing clothes according to the weather, is very wide. | This SWOT analysis follows that our company can be found on the following risks: 1. Not having a good advertising system do not reach people our deals so many people do not know the products we have. The only way to know that we can offer it’s entering one of our stores. 2. Salary of employees is low so they are not motivated. Not being motivated not only contribute ideas and really made a mechanical sales job but do not persuade the buyer to ma ke a purchase top. 3. Image abroad offering shops is very poor and the decor is not very good. On the other hand, the lighting is bad and there are clothes in the windows are not all that should be visible. Another problem is that the prices are in clothing exposed in the window and is not seen very divicil identify which price corresponds with each garment. 4. Virtually all of our stores are not adapted to the input of people with disabilities â€Å"Wheelchair†. The problem here is that we find the latest legislation on this issue gives us a period of two years to adapt to every store possible input disabled. 5. Many of the items have defects resulting from poor workmanship. This involves not a major economic expenditure for the company because you have to add the price of the withdrawal of the garment all transportation costs. 6. The high cost of maintenance of the stores is another risk that we are as it is a very negative factor financially to the income statement. 7. Increased competition. Other companies are appearing on the market with very similar to our products at very competitive prices so our sales could lower. 8. We do not have Online  Shop. We don’t have online shop and currently that sales are increasing. 9. We manufacture garments for all seasons so our manufacturing models are many and this leads us to the problem of strong economic investment we have to do to purchase machinery to manufacture all that wide range of models. All these risks have deduced the SWOT analysis we have made to our business and lessons learned in the past, data and statistics that we have on our business. If we want a more detailed analysis of all risks that may affect our business, we might go to an outside consultant as these people are prepared and have specialized knowledge and appropriate tools to identify what are the risks that may affect our business. Tools and techniques that it could be used in the audit process: – Fishbone diagrams – Process mapping – Force field analysis – Checklists – Scenario analysis – Markov chains 1. Not having a good advertising system do not reach people our deals so many people do not know the products we have. Minimal impact. Our business is built on the basis of an almost nonexistent outside advertising so this is a risk but almost irrelevant. If we want to expand the business or increase  sales if you should do some advertising campaign and should consider the most appropriate way of doing this campaign. 2. Salary of employees is low so they are not motivated. Moderate Impact. We study the possibility of increasing the wages of workers in our company to try to increase the productivity of these workers. Although productivity and wages are two issues that need not be proportionate if it is true that a worker is more encouraged to work with a slightly higher salary than another worker performing that function this but a minimum wage. Slightly increasing wages and participation could increase sales because the seller would find more willing to sell and deliver the product s and therefore more likely the buyer would buy. 3. Image abroad offering shops is very poor and the decor is not very good. Minor impact. Although I have an external image in not very good trades I think his impact is less when talking about risks to our business as it is not very expensive to redecorate all the windows to make them more attractive to our customers. A different question is the issue of bad lighting since the change the entire lighting system stores would be costly for the business but could make a sequence and always depending on the importance regarding the location and quantity of sales shops. 4. Virtually all of our stores are not adapted to the input of people with disabilities â€Å"Wheelchair†. Disastrous / catastrophic. If we do not adapt to the existing legislation on trade our stores may be closed by the competent authorities. As our business would cease to exist. I think this risk is a priority when looking for a solution. 5. Many of the items have defects resulting from poor workmanship. Severe impact. When carrying a defective garment market the basic cost of the garment triples so this risk we must approach it as a must urgently increase the benefit of our business to carry out the whole process of reforms that we are talking about and that our shareholders are demanding us to increase business benefits. This can solve it with a higher quality control. The quality control mechanism must be present in all of our business processes, that is, from the design of the garment to the customer buys it, through manufacturing, logistics, customer service †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ . 6. The high cost of maintenance of the stores. Severe impact. Negative impact on the income statement. We should make the necessary reforms in stores to ensure that the cost of maintaining them is less for the benefit of the business is greater. Depending on the degree of need for the reform of local  we could also think of relocating these stores. We should conduct a market study of the area where the store to see if it is the right place or if instead Store could relocate elsewhere something less expensive is located. 7. Increased competition. Minor impact. The increase in our competition is a fact that can not be denied. We are still having good sales in our business and we were not too concerned that other companies entering our market but the probability of this happening is quite high and although initially the impact is small can lead to over time this impact becomes high due to the loss of competitiveness. We must establish appropriate in our company to always be ahead of p ossible companies that want to enter our niche market mechanisms. 8. We do not have Online Shop. Moderate impact. Not having a online sale mechanism first time does not mean a loss of sales in our business but precisely for the opposite if we establish this system of Internet sales our sales increase. Perform this process would not be very expensive for our business and could bring great benefits because we could reduce very significantly the costs, especially the costs of maintenance shops and staff costs. 9. We manufacture garments for all seasons. Moderate impact. We have adapted the production chain to see how we can reduce costs in manufacturing garments. But this we can do it in a leisurely way without making a large financial outlay. Likewise we can stop making certain models that are the least sold and are left less benefit. Communication with all relevant parties. To communicate with all relevant parties in the process of reforms resulting from all risks I have described, would do it two ways: 1. Internally in our company through briefings to all staff employed in our company by exposing what are the changes that are going to make an attempt on one hand the people brainstorm such change and on the other side that all staff have knowledge of such changes. I think it would be a good way to create a positive feedback. Also would have to send the entire management team and the financial team with a report of all findings of the risk because ultimately they are the ones who have the power of decision on the feasibility of these reforms. We should also make a report to shareholders equipment at all times know what steps you are following the company. 2. An external way our company would be good to communicate throughout the process  of change to all our potential clients in order to publicize the company how it works and what the goals are the same. We could do some kind of advertising campaign. On the other hand we must notify the competent bodies our stores comply with current regulations. Finally I would say that our plan of risks and their treatment should always be in line with the goals of our business, as well as the mission and vision of it.

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