English Language for Economics - Lecture Flashcards

Fill-in-the-blank flashcards reviewing company profiles, morphological concepts, and corporate texts from the lecture.

The Nestlé Company was created in 1866 by __________ .

Henry Nestlé

The first Nestlé product was baby __________ .

milk

Nestlé's Head Office is located in __________ in Switzerland.

Vevey

In 2002, __________ % of Nestlé's employees received some form of training.

65

A subdiscipline of Linguistics which studies the internal structure of words is known as __________ .

Morphology

__________ Morphology studies the way words are adapted in different grammatical contexts.

Inflectional

A __________ is defined as the smallest meaningful unit in linguistics.

morpheme

Words that consist of only one morpheme are known as __________ words.

Simplex

Yahoo's head office is located in __________, California.

Sunnyvale

Michelin has more than __________ employees all over the world.

125,000

Airbus is a subsidiary of the European Aeronautics Defence and Space Company, also known as __________ .

EADS

Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress with an approval rating hovering between __________ % and 68%.

62

HMV posted a pre-tax loss of £ __________ m in the 12 months ending in April.

38.6

HMV's like-for-like sales were down __________ % due to increased competition.

12.1

Simon Fox was replaced as chief executive of HMV by __________, a former boss of camera retailer Jessops.

Trevor Moore