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Language review: Trends
1 decline, decrease, fall, drop
2 double
3 fluctuate
4 gain, improve, increase, rise
5 halve
6 level off
7 peak
8 plummet
9 recover
10 rocket
11 triple
| VERB decline decrease double drop fall fluctuate gain halve improve increase level off peak plummet recover rise rocket triple | NOUN a decline a decrease a doubling (possible, but infrequently used) a drop a fall a fluctuation a gain a halving (possible, but infrequently used) an improvement an increase a levelling off a peak a plummet (possible, but hardly ever used) a recovery a rise a rocket (but this is never used to describe trends) a tripling (possible, but infrequently used) |
C
1 from…to
2 by
3 of
4 at
5 of/at
6 of/at
E – F 9.2
1 always drop/have always dropped
2 rose
3 plummeted
4 had recovered/recovered
5 have gone up/have been going up
6 will probably reach/are probably going to reach
7 rose
8 have increased
9 are still going up
10 will decrease/are going to decrease
11 level off
12 will improve
Listening: Making loans
C 9.3
| The individual The business Intuition | Are they prepared? Do they know what they want? Do they understand what is required? Can they explain with clarity the purpose for which the money is required? Are they confident? Can it provide the means of repaying the money that it has borrowed? Does the business plan demonstrate this? Does the business plan include details of business structure as well as financial information (logical thought processes often produce good financial structures)? If it doesn't sound right, it probably isn't. |
Part 2
D 9.4
1 First example: successful businessman who sold his business and then
bought it back when it was unsuccessful; now more successful and profitable than before.
Second example: entirely new product badly presented; with considerable assistance in restructuring the proposal a successful business structure was created; the firm is now a well-known UK company.
2 Financing a business which screen-printed logos on umbrellas.
E
1 clear
2 logically
3 confidence
4 intuitively
Reading: Financial disasters
D-E
| Where did it happen? When did it happen? Who was involved? What happened? Why did it happen? What were the consequences? | South Sea Bubble London Investors South Sea Company collapsed market collapsed economic depression in the country | Tulipomana Holland people from all classes the tulip market collapsed panic among investors severe economic recession m Holland | Wall Street Crash New York investors, financial institutions US stock market crash stocks overvalued, loss of confidence severe and lasting world economic crisis |
F
The South Sea Bubble:
1 a huge profit
2 founded
3 boom
4 to take over
5 rise dramatically
6 Eventually
7 levelled off
Tulipomania:
1 speculative explosion
2 real estate
3 poured
4 followed suit
5 collapsed
6 security
7 bankrupt
The Wall Street Crash:
1 industrialist
2 rocketed
3 a break
4 took off
5 peak
6 overvalued
7 getting out of the market
UNIT 10 Ethics
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