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Market Leader Intermediate – Unit 6: Money - Listening

 

A. Darrell Mercer is Investment Director at PSigma Investment Management. Listen to the first part of the interview and complete the gaps.

The aim of the business is to provide ......................(1) for private individuals who have ............(2) that they wish to employ to achieve a certain .......................... (3). My role as the Investment Director is to both .........................(4) for the client with the intention of meeting that aim, that return, and also then manage that strategy on an ongoing basis.

 

Đáp án:

1. investment solutions

2. capital

3. level of return

4. design strategy

 

B. Listen twice to the second part and complete the chart.

Asset	Example
1. cash	lending to a ........... (1) or a ........... (2)
2. fixed-interest securities	linked to the ................................... (3)
3. index-linked securities
4. equities	a ............ (4) or a ……......(5)
5. investments not linked to equity returns	……………. (6) property ............... (7) (e.g. precious metals) ……………. (8) (an interesting area of development over last 20 years)
6. alternative investments	............... (9) funds ............... (10) funds

Đáp án:

1. government

2. company

3. rate of inflation

4. stock

5. share

6. commercial

7. commodities

8. agriculture

9. hedge

10. absolute return

 

C. Listen to the final part. Which of the following does Darrell not mention?

1. gold

2. fixed-income securities

3. hedge funds

4. early cycle equities

 

Đáp án: He does not mention 3 (hedge funds)

A. Match the words in the box to the definitions 1 to 6 below.

equity stake      recession        shares         debt         stock market        forecast

 

1. equal parts into which the capital or ownership of a company is divided

2. a period of time when business activity decreases because the economy is doing badly

3. money risked when a business owns part of another company

4. a place where company shares are bought and sold

5. a description of what is likely to happen in the future

6. money owed by one person or organisation to another person or organisation

 

Đáp án:

1. shares

2. recession

3. equity stake

4. stock market

5. forecast

6. debt

 

B. Match the sentence halves.

1. Profit margin is         

2. Investment is

3. Bankruptcy is

4. A dividend is

5. Pre-tax profits are

6. Annual turnover is

a) a part of a company's profits paid to the owners of shares.

b) the difference between the price of a product or service and the cost of producing it.

c) money which people or organisations put into a business to make a profit.

d) the amount of money which a business obtains (in a year) from customers by selling goods or services.

e) when a person or organisation is unable to pay their debts.

f) the money a business makes before payment to the government.

 

Đáp án:

1. b

2. c

3. e

4. a

5. f

6. d

 

C. Complete this news report with the terms from Exercises A and B.

And now the business news ...

There was a further downturn in the economy this month as the ......... (1) in the United States and Asia-Pacific region continues. Yesterday was another day of heavy trading on the ...........(2), with big losses in share values. The ………… (3) for the near future is not good. as market confidence remains low.

Paradise Lane. the struggling luxury hotel group. is seeking new ............. (4) to try and avoid ............(5), following the announcement of disastrous interim results. It currently has a ............ (6) of nearly $5 billion. There are rumours of rivals G H N taking a large ............(7) in the troubled hotel group.

Phoenix Media announced a 15% increase in …………… (8) on an ............ (9) of $4.5 million. Added to the strong performance in the last quarter. this is likely to result in an increased ............(10) of over 14 cents per share. well up on last year. which will certainly please shareholders*. Following a rise in sales in the emerging markets of ...

*the people who own shares in a business

 

Đáp án:

1. recession

2. stock market

3. forecast

4. investment

5. bankruptcy

6. debt

7. equity stake

8. pre-tax profits

9. annual turnover

10. dividend

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A. What kind of movement do these verbs describe? Match them to the symbols (1-11) on the left. Then compare your answers with your partner. (You will need to use some symbols more than once.)

decline          gain           drop        increase        rocket       plummet     

double           fall             halve        level off         triple        recover  

decrease       fluctuate     improve      peak           rise          jump

 

Đáp án:

1. decline, drop, fall, decrease

2. double

3. fluctuate

4. gain, increase, rise, improve (unless you're talking about something bad like unemployment)

5. halve

6. level off

7. peak

8. plummet

9. recover

10. rocket, jump

11. triple

 

B. Which of the verbs in Exercise A also have noun forms? What are they?

 

Đáp án:

a decline

a gain

a drop

an increase

(rocket does not have a noun form in this context)

a plummet (rare, but it does exist as a noun)

a doubling

a fall

a halving

a levelling off

a tripling

a recovery

a decrease

a fluctuation

an improvement

a peak

a rise

a jump

 

C. Look at the graphs below. Complete the sentences about them with appropriate prepositions.

1. Sales have increased .......... €Sm ........... €7m.

2. Sales have increased ............ €2m.

3. There has been an increase ........... €2m in our sales.

4. Sales now stand ............ €7m.

5. Sales reached a peak .......... €7m in July.

6. Sales reached a low point ........... €1m in April.

 

Đáp án:

1. from; to

2. by

3. of

4. at

5. of

6. of

 

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