Economics vocabulary personal experiences bluff
Choose one of the topics in the list below. Tell your partner about your true personal experiences of that thing or about made-up/ imaginary/ untrue personal experiences of that thing. After asking for details, they will try to guess if your story is:
- completely made up
- completely true
- a mix of made-up details and true details
If it is a mix, they can also try to guess which details were true and which were made up.
- A country which is in the G8
- A recession
- Being a customer of an organisation that was trying to cut costs
- Being a customer of a privatised company
- Buying imports
- Companies before/ after being merged with/ acquired by/ bought up by another firm
- Consequence of a free trade pact/ free trade pacts
- Consequences of a government policy
- Consequences of a trade barrier
- Consequences of immigration
- Cutting personal expenditure
- Dealing with conglomerates (e.g. emailing or phoning a company)
- Dealing with multinational companies (e.g. emailing or phoning a company)
- Debt
- Deflation/ Inflation
- Deregulation
- Electronic payment/ Online payment
- Inadequate infrastructure
- Personal investments
- Personal taxes (capital gains tax, income tax, inheritance tax, etc)
- Receiving a government subsidy
- Staff turnover (for example in a shop you often go to)
- Unemployment
- Visiting a country with a strong(er) currency
- Visiting a country with a weak(er) currency
- Welfare benefits
- Working for a conglomerate (e.g. in a part-time job)
- Working for a multinational company (e.g. in a casual job)
When your teacher stops you, ask about any topics above you aren’t sure about, sharing real experiences as a class each time.
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