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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-life-cycle-of-a-sneaker-angel-chang
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- part B - Complete the paragraph with the correct forms of words from the list. (to check tomorrow)
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- Homework: IELTS vocabulary p. 89 (pdf p. 93) exercise 1 - look up these words and be able to explain how they differ (you do NOT need to do 3, 9, or 11)
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- part B
- 1 promoting
- 2 firm
- 3 consumers
- 4 market
- 5 competitive
- 6 demand (“the amount that people are willing to buy” is a combination of “the amount each person is willing to buy” and “the amount of people willing to buy it”)
- 7 profit
- 8 budget (This can also mean “the amount of money you plan to spend”.)
- 9 allocated
- 10 supply
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- IELTS vocabulary
- 1 profit = the money you get from selling something beyond what you paid for it
- loss = money you’ve spent but not gotten back (e.g. if you sell something for less than what you paid)
- You can sell something at a profit or at a loss.
- 2 extravagant (adj) = someone who spends a lot of money, or something that costs an unnecessary amount of money to buy
- frugal (adj) = someone who is very careful with money
- economical (adj) = something that is not expensive to buy or run, or someone who doesn’t spend too much money
- 3 (In the US, we call these “checking” and “savings”.)
- 4 loan = money you borrow from the bank in order to buy something
- mortgage = a type of loan to buy a house or other property
- 5 deposit = put money into an account (or the noun for the money you put in)
- withdraw = take money out of an account (the noun is “withdrawal”)
- 6 wage = money earned per hour of work (usually involves specifically keeping track of how many hours are worked each day)
- salaray = money earned over a whole year (generally paid every two weeks or twice a month)
- 7 broke = when you have no money (informal, refers to just right now)
- bankrupt = when you (a person or a company) are officially unable to pay your debts
- 8 share = one of many equal parts into which a company’s total capital is divided
- stock = the total collection of all shares one company has or all shares of one company that a person owns (stocks are shares from two or more companies)
- dividend = a payment of a fraction of the company’s profit to each shareholder
- 9 (Income tax is a tax on all money earned, from wages, tips, salaries, and investments.)
- 10 credit (v) = add money to an account
- debit (v) = take money from an account
- credit card / credit account = an account from which you can borrow money to pay for things, and then you have to pay it back (with interest) later
- debit card = an card that debits money directly from your (usually checking) account
- 11 (I believe that in the US a credit union does much the same as a building society does in the UK.)
- 12 discount = the amount by which a price is reduced
- refund = money returned to you after you’ve already spent it
- 13 bargain = (noun) a much lower price than usual / (verb) negotiate for a lower price
- (“haggle” is a word for the same activity with more negative connotations)
- overpriced = more expensive than I think it should be
- exorbitant = very overpriced
- $50 o.b.o. / “or best offer” = I expect some negotiation, and I’m willing to take the best offer someone gives, even if that’s less than my $50 asking price.
- 14 worthless = something that has no value, it’s worth $0
- priceless = something with so much value that you can’t put a price on it
- 15 save money = set your money aside to use later (at home or in a bank account)
- invest money = spend your money on something you expect to increase in value
- 16 inflation = prices and wages go up, the value of money goes down
- deflation = prices and wages go down, the value of money goes up
- 17 income = all the money that comes to a company or a person
- expenditure = all the money spent
- 18 lend = give temporarily
- borrow = receive/take temporarily
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- overdraft = when you debit more money from an account than the account has in it
- (The verb is “overdraw”.)
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- taxes = money that goes to the government
- fees = extra money that goes to companies (overdraft fee, ATM fee)
- interest = extra money paid by someone who borrows money (When you put money into certain types of bank accounts, the bank pays you because they’ve essentially borrowed your money.)
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- BREAK
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- Writing Practice - ETS 2 test 5
- Email your responses to me when you’re done
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