Jun 20, 2016
- Read through the explanations.
- A | Industry
Industry (uncountable) is the production of materials and goods. The related adjective is industrial. An industry (countable) is a particular type of business activity, not necessarily production.
B | Manufactoring …
Here are some of the manufacturing industries that make up the manufacturing sector:
… and Services
Here are some of the services or service industries that make up the service sector:
Note: You use all these words in front of ‘industry’ to talk about particular industries, but you usually drop the ‘s’ from ‘cars’, ‘automobiles’, ‘pharmaceuticals’ and ‘textiles’: ‘the automobile industry’.
C | Countries and their industries
Here is how industry has developed in South Korea:
In 1950, South Korea was a poor country, with most people living and working on the land. The government decided to industrialize, and the new emerging industries were textiles, and heavy industries like steel and shipbuilding.
Then South Korea turned more and more to light industries like electronics, making electrical goods such as televisions cheaply. It also started producing cars.
South Korea moved into specialized electronics in the 80s. This was the one of the growth industries of the 1990s: making specialized parts for computers and telecommunications equipment.
- A | Industry
- Companies in particular industries need to avoid particular problems. Match each problem to one of the industries in B opposite.
- 1. Buying a new building and being unable to find people to rent it. — . . .
- tourism
- property
- retail
- 3. Making vehicles whose tyres burst at high speed. — . . .
- cars
- tourism
- construction
- 4. Holidaymakers arriving to find that their hotel is not finished. — . . .
- financial services
- tourism
- property
- 5. Lending to someone who cannot repay the loan. — . . .
- retail
- financial services
- real estate
- 6. Selling weapons to governments that people do not approve of. — . . .
- defence
- catering
- healthcare
- 7. Buying players who do not score goals. — . . .
- cars
- leisure
- household goods
- 8. Making drugs that poor countries cannot afford. — . . .
- healthcare
- aerospace
- pharmaceutical
- 9. Rejecting a book that is then brought out by another publisher and sells 30 million copies. — . . .
- media
- retail
- financial services
- 10. Removing the wrong leg in an operation. — . . .
- construction
- defence
- healthcare
- 1. Buying a new building and being unable to find people to rent it. — . . .
- Match the word with its description.
- 1) plane and rocket industry — . . .
- construction
- aerospace
- defence
- 2) metal industry — . . .
- pharmaceuticals
- textiles
- steel
- 3) any industry that doesn’t sell goods — . . .
- industrial
- manufacturing
- service
- 4) making things — . . .
- manufacturing
- household goods
- services
- 5) television, music, the Internet — . . .
- telecommunications
- computer hardware
- media
- 6) related to industry or industries — . . .
- industrial
- services
- manufacturing
- 7) describing a new industry — . . .
- appearing
- materialized
- emerging
- 8) describing an industry that is getting bigger — . . .
- growth
- developed
- blooming
- 9) making drugs — . . .
- healthcare
- pharmaceutical
- food processing
- 10) making cars in the US — . . .
- car
- aerospace
- automobile
- 11) making arms — . . .
- healthcare
- defence
- media
- 12) serving good and drink, rather than making them — . . .
- food processing
- retail
- catering
- 13) keeping people well — . . .
- household goods
- healthcare
- pharmaceutical
- 14) making televisions rather than steel — . . .
- computer hardware
- light industry
- textiles
- 1) plane and rocket industry — . . .
- Over to you
- Is your organization, or one you would like to work for, in manufacturing or services or a combination of both?
Where are industries in your country based? Are companies in different industries grouped in different areas?
- Is your organization, or one you would like to work for, in manufacturing or services or a combination of both?
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