money

1. UNIT 6: Vežbe

2. Money makes
the world go
round
Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, “Cabaret“ (1972)

3. Dealing with figures, pg. 57
• Years, dates
1845 1909 9th May 2019 Nov 3rd 1983
• Decimals
16.5 17.38% 0.185
• Fractions
¼ 1/7 ½ 3/5
• Currencies
£3.15 €7.80 ¥125 $46.89
• Large numbers
3,567 567,897 1,367,402 1m 4.5bn
Ex. A, pg. 57

4. Describing trends
• VERBS (ex. A, B pg. 56)
soar, decline, gain, drop, increase, rocket, plummet, double,
triple, halve, fall, level off, recover, decrease, fluctuate, improve,
peak, rise, jump
• NOUNS (ex. B, pg. 56)
soar, decline, gain, drop, increase, double, triple, half, fall,
recovery, decrease, fluctuation, improvement, peak, rise, jump
• PREPOSITIONS (ex. C, pg. 56)
from...to, by, at, to, of

5. DESCRIBING TRENDS
• GRAPHS – make sure you understand what each axis is measuring
• BAR, PIE CHART – there is a key which tells you what each bar or area
represents
• TABLE – read the data across the rows and down the columns

6. Writing a report DESCRIBING TRENDS
You are a Financial Manager of NSY, a large international investment
company. You are supposed to write an e-mail to your CEO reporting on
the last year’s investments:
• Greet your CEO
• Introduce the topic
• Use the graphs on pg. 56 to describe different trends that happened
troughout the year and to compare this year’s investments to the last year’s
ones
• End your e-mail with a positive remark
• Use an appropriate closing phrase

7. Thank you for your
attention!