British Council Courses at ANIA

ANIA - Tuesday 10th March  - All Groups

Vocabulary Skills: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/41184334/Vocabulary

Vocabulary Exercise using the article “Life insurance: Consumer groups push for scrapping of commission payments” retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-10/push-to-ditch-commission-payments-from-life-insurance-industry/6084096


Phrasal Verbs
to push for - advocate, lobby
to call on - ask, request
to come up with - invent, think of
to hand down (a report) - issue/send out/publish

Word complementation
fail to comply (with the law)(Collocation)
encourage (someone) to do something
to have been around for ages/decades/years
to be expected to do

Collocations
commission payments/commission based pay/up-front commissions
appropriate models
life insurance industry
draft response
financial incentive
industry working group

Idioms
to scrap, to ditch
bottom line
to push a product
to be well versed

Fixed Phrases
serve the needs of (clients)
to fail to see (why)
fee-for-service arrangements

Lexical Precision
sell, push, hawk, peddle, trade, offer
bottom line, profit, net, gain, earnings, return.