Group 5 - 9:30am
Class
Vocabulary Strategies
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41184334/Vocabulary
Business & Economics Vocabulary
Word pairs:
boom and slump, mortgages and loans, profit and loss, income and expenditure, assets and liabilities, imports and exports, takeovers and mergers, creditors and debtors, supply and demand.
Check pronunciation: mortgage, debtor, owe, own
Homework
Negotiation - reading (p.117), phrasal verbs (p.117 questions 6 - 9)
Group 7 - 11:30am
Class
Vocabulary Strategies
http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41184334/Vocabulary
Collocations
impart knowledge
venture capital
demonstrate genuine interest
Fixed Expressions
the community as a whole
(more than) the sum of its parts
Idioms
to cold call/email
hard sell
at the end of the day
Word Complementation
to ask for something
to offer an insight into something
Phrasal Verbs
keep up - to maintain
carry out - to complete
make out - to discern or perceive (with difficulty)
go on to do - to finish one thing and start another
go on doing - to continue
See also: to come up with, to ease into, to play up, to reach out (to)
Semantic Precision
blaring/booming
walk - shuffle, trudge, stride, stroll
For a good online dictionary see: http://www.collinsdictionary.com
Homework:
- Learn 8 new lexical items (collocations, phrasal verbs, fixed expressions). Remember the 8 x 8 rule!
- What happens to native speaker speech when people are speaking quickly?
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