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Financial Vocabulary Trends- Mini-Presentations

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

By: Alex Case
Level: Intermediate
Theme: Money
Study Area: Vocabulary
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Lesson Plan Content:


Financial Vocabulary Trends- Mini-Presentations
Part One: Speaking

Choose one thing from below and describe what you believe to the past, present and
future
of that thing and see if your partner agrees with your description and predictions.

OR

Choose one of the things below and pretend you are giving a presentation on that topic,
starting from greetings and personal introduction etc and including past, present and
future trends in the body of the presentation. You can talk about one group of people,
your company, your sector, this country, this region, the world more generally
, etc.
Make up any information which you aren’t sure about. After the Q&A, your partner will try
to guess which information you made up.

Useful language
Sounding unsure
As far as I remember…
I imagine…/ I guess…
I’m no expert on this, but…
From what I’ve heard,…

Reactions
That’s more or less correct./ I partially agree.
I think you’re (a bit/ much) too optimistic/ pessimistic.
Actually, (I heard that)…

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Financial trends to explain

Balance of trade (= trade surplus or trade deficit)

(Corporate/ Personal) bankruptcies

Birth rate

Blue-chip stocks

(Annual/ End-of-year/ Semi-annual/ Xmas/ Performance-related) Bonuses

Commodity prices (gold prices, crude oil prices, food prices, etc)

(Business/ Consumer/ Market) confidence

(Consumer/ Corporate/ Credit card/ Government/ Household) debt

Dividends

Economic growth (growth in GPD etc)

Exchange rate

Fraud/ White collar crime (insider trading etc)

Giving to charities

(Hedge/ Index-linked/ Sovereign capital) funds

Household savings

IPOs

Imports and exports

Income/ Turnover (= Revenue)

Industrial action (strikes etc)

Inflation (e.g. consumer price index)

Insurance premiums

(Bank/ Base/ Credit card) interest rates

Investment

Life expectancy

M&A (= mergers and acquisitions)

Market share

New products/ services

Population

(Commercial/ Residential) property prices

(Pre-tax/ Net) profits

Profit margins

(Commercial/ Residential) rents

Sales

Share prices (= Stock prices)

Stock market index/ indices

(Capital gains/ Corporate/ Income/ Sales) tax

Trading volumes

(Long term) unemployment

Welfare payments (unemployment benefits etc)

Workforce

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Financial Vocabulary Trends- Mini-Presentations

Part Two: Financial collocations

Without looking above for now, write as many different words as you can before and/ or
after the words below to make financial English collocations. Some words below can also
go together, but most go with words which aren’t below. Collocations which weren’t on the
previous page are also fine, as long as they make sense.

+ bonuses +

+ bankruptcies +

+ confidence +

+ debt +

+ fund(s) +

+ growth +

+ household +

+ industrial +

+ insurance +

+ price(s) +

+ profit(s) +

+ rate(s) +

+ rent(s) +

+ share +

+ stock(s) +

+ trade/ trading +

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Use the extra words below to help with the task above, writing the extra collocations on
that page (not numbering, drawing lines, etc). All the words below can be used at least
once, and some several times. Note that many more collocations are possible.

action (strikes etc)
annual
balance of
blue-chip
business
capital gains
commercial
commodity
consumer
corporate
credit card
deficit
economic
end-of-year
exchange
food
gold
government
hedge
income
index-linked
market index/ indices
insider
interest
margins
market
net
(crude) oil
performance-related
personal
pre-tax
premiums
property
residential
sales
savings
semi-annual
sovereign capital
surplus
volumes

Check with the first worksheet. Note that many other collocations are possible, so if you
have different answers please check with your teacher.

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Suggested answers

bankruptcies – Personal bankruptcies/ Corporate bankruptcies

confidence – Business confidence/ Consumer confidence/ Market confidence

debt – Consumer debt/ Corporate debt/ Credit card debt/ Government debt/ House-
hold debt

fund – Hedge fund/ Index-linked fund/ Sovereign capital fund

growth – Economic growth

household – Household debt/ Household savings

industrial – Industrial action

insurance – Insurance premiums

price(s) – Commodity prices/ Gold prices/ Oil prices/ Food prices/ Property prices

profit(s) – Pre-tax profits/ Net profits/ Profit margins

rate(s) – Interest rates/ Exchanges rates

rent(s) – Commercial rents/ Residential rents

share – Market share/ Share prices

stock(s) – Blue-chip stocks/ Stock market indices/ Stock prices

tax – Capital gains tax/ Corporation tax/ Income tax/ Sales tax/ Pre-tax profit

trade – Balance of trade/ Trade surplus/ Trade deficit/ Insider trading/ Trading volumes

bonuses – Annual bonuses/ End-of-year bonuses/ Semi-annual bonuses/ Xmas
bonuses/ Performance-related bonuses

Brainstorm language for describing trends, drawing basic line graph shapes and
brainstorming as many different ways of describing each one as you can.

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