Mergers, takeovers and sell-offs
X.Capital, interest and profit
XI. <...> Activity
Unit 3.Money and banking system
I.Starting-up
II. <...> Introduction of banking and financial markets
V.Money: real and counterfeit
VI. <...> Types of payments in foreign trade
IV. <...> The world bank
V.Activity
Literature
UNIT 1. <...> Use these words in the suitable blanks in the sentences below:
Put one of the given words in each sentence.
production, economize, productivity, economic, produce, economy,
product, economical, productive, producer, economics
1. <...> A person's or organization's finances are the money
they have and how it is managed, etc. <...> If something is economical, it is cheap to buy, to use or
to do. <...> Economic indicators (see В, С and D below) are figures showing how
well a country's economy (economic system) is working. <...> B. Inflation and unemployment
Inflation is rising prices, and the rate at which they are rising is the
inflation rate. <...> The level of unemployment is the number of people without a job. <...> Gross domestic product or GDP is the value of all the
goods and services produced in a particular country. <...> The size of an economy is also sometimes measured in terms of gross
national product or GNP. <...> TRADE
of export
Yahoo! have
SURPLUS
INTERNET
over imports
increased
JUMPS TO
EXPLOSION
has gone up
greatly in
RECORD
CONTINUES
quickly.
value. <...> VW PROFITS UP AS = Profits in
prices are
VW have
PRICES SET TO
CAR SALES
going to rise
increased
SKYROCKET
CONTINUE TO
by a lot.
thanks to
SURGE
rapidly rising
car sales. <...> B. Going down
You also use a number of verbs to describe amounts or figures going down.
= A defence
= Sales in shops
7. 1,000 JOBS
10.
company has told SEPTEMBER
have fallen a lot
AXED AS
1,000 factory
DEFENCE
RETAIL SALES in September.
employees that
PLANT
PLUMMET
they are to lose
CLOSES
their jobs.
= The ECB has
= The
8. <...> GOVERNreduced interest
government has
CENTRAL
MENT
rates.
reduced income
BANK CUTS
SLASHES
RATE IN
SURPRISE
MOVE
9. <...> EURO
share price has DIVES TO NEW
currency has <...>