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The language of graphs
What verbs do you think best describe points 1 to 10 of this graph?
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Listen to the financial news report and fill in the table.
to hedge to invest
to speculate to deal
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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.
What do the two pictures show?
Find the terms which mean the following:
1. what a company owns: assets 2. the total amount of sales: turnover 3. what a company owes: liabilities
4. the profit made by the normal activities of a business: operating profit
5. the goods which a business intends to sell to its customers: stock
Listen to the people making some brief calculations during a meeting. Write down the calculations they make in the spaces provided.
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Build two vocabulary networks around these topics:
1. Currency 2. Shares
What date was “Black Monday”? ___1_7_th_,_O_c_t_._1_9_8_7___________________________
By how much did the market fall then?
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The language of graphs
Verbs used in the news: fell; plunged; soared; stabilize, recover
$120 50 000 50 000 $120 6m
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60 000
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22 500
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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.
How much money was lost on the London market?
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By how much points did the Dow Jones index fall?
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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)
What tasks does he have to do and what doesn’t he have to do?
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Financial vocabulary and figures
➢ Economic situation ➢ Shares and currencies ➢ Accounting
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Sentence correction.
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What percentage was this?
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When was the previous great stock market crash?
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