Listen to the financial news report and fill in the table.

What do the two pictures show?

Find theห้องสมุดไป่ตู้terms which mean the following:
what a company owns: assets the total amount of sales: turnover what a company owes: liabilities the profit made by the normal activities of a business: operating profit the goods which a business intends to sell to its customers: stock

What tasks does he have to do and what doesn’t he have to do?

Extra activities:
Message Form Name
Company Urgent Can wait Tel. No.
√ 0181 442 5655, ext 39 Linda Burne SCI International
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Listen to the people making some brief calculations during a meeting. Write down the calculations they make in the spaces provided.
￡7415 ￡13 350 ￡60 050
to hedge to invest
to speculate to deal
bce
What is a share? a. Part of a company’s profit. b. A regular payment received from an investment. c. A share in the ownership of a company.

c

Build two vocabulary networks around these topics: Currency Shares
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What date was “Black Monday”? 17th, Oct. 1987 _________________________________________ How much money was lost on the London market? $50 billion _________________________________________ By how much points did the Dow Jones index fall? 508 points _________________________________________ What percentage was this? _________________________________________ 20% When was the previous great stock market crash? 1929 _________________________________________ By how much did the market fall then? 10% _________________________________________

The language of graphs
Verbs used in the news: fell; plunged; soared; stabilize, recover UP DOWN NO CHANGE

The language of graphs
What verbs do you think best describe points 1 to 10 of this graph?

Listen to two alternative versions of a similar situation involving two men called Buxton and Roberts. Which one of the four sentences describes the first conversation and which one describes the second conversation?

Addressing

Report on cultural differences in communication.

Video clip, unit 1 (P. 104)

Financial vocabulary and figures
Economic situation Shares and currencies Accounting
SUCCESS
FAILURE

Sentence correction.

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$120
50 000
50 000 $120 6m
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3.5
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22 500 52 500 82 500
60 000

Julian Lee is the general manager of a nuclear research institute. He is responsible for all aspects of running the institute, including managing the staff and organizing the finances, but he is not a scientist.