business vocabulary/ language of trends
Choose one of the things below and talk about past, present and future changes until your partner guesses which one you are talking about, then take turns doing the same.
OR
Talk about past, present and future changes of one thing below, see if your partner has any questions or comments, discuss for longer if you like, then take turns doing the same.
- Construction
- Corporate taxes
- Exports
- Female employees/ Female managers
- Food prices
- Government debt
- Government spending
- Hybrid and electric vehicles
- Imports
- Income tax
- Inflation
- Infrastructure projects
- Interest rates
- IPOs
- Living standards
- M&A
- Number of flights
- Number of temporary workers
- Pensions
- Personal debt
- Property prices
- R&D spending
- Renewable energy
- Retirement age
- The amount of government regulation
- The stock market
- Unemployment
- VAT (= sales tax)
- Welfare benefits
- Welfare spending
When your teacher stops you, share a trend you agreed on and see if the class has questions or comments.
Ask about any topics above you don’t understand, can’t imagine the trend for, etc, working together to describe related trends each time.
Change groups and do the other speaking task above.
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