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MORE FORMAL:

-You've looked over the records and met the staff, Mr Crown. Do you have any suggestions?

-One thing, I'd recommend strongly is hiring at least one more accountant.

Suggestions and recommendations

FORMAL:

-Stan, I want to buy a new WiFi range extender. What kind do you recommend?

-If I were you, I would get an LG. I have one at home, and I love it.

INFORMAL:

-Where shall we go for lunch, Barbara?

-Why don't we try the new place on the corner? I hear they have great sandwiches.

Economy

Structure of the economy:

Sort the following activities to the appropriate sector!

Primary sector

Secondary sector

Tertiary sector

advertising products

calculating prices

distributing added value

smelting iron

assembling

CS

transportation

laying cables

pumping oil

mining coal

welding metal

building

packaging products

cutting trees

milling

digging iron ore

creating commercials

tour guiding

Find the correct term for the following definitions!

A situation in which you have to make a very difficult choice.

1. The hight street
2. A dilemma
3. A margin
4. Cut-throat

To go to different shops to compare prices and quality before you buy something.

1. To shop about
2. Dual pricing
3. A dilemma
4. A margin

Operating in a building, not on the internet.

1. A margin
2. Cut-throat
3. Bricks-and-mortar
4. To shop about

The difference between the cost of buying or producing something and the price you sell it for.

1. Cut-throat
2. Dual pricing
3. The high street
4. A margin

The street in a town where you can find most shops and banks.

1. A margin
2. The high street
3. Second street
4. Bricks-and-mortar

Setting two different prices online and in shops for the same goods.

1. Dual pricing
2. A margin
3. Cut-throat
4. A dilemma

Extremely or unfairly competitive.

1. Dual pricing
2. A dilemma
3. The high street
4. Cut-throat

Choose the correct answer!

The economy is back on __________. = The economy is beginning to recover.

1. track
2. line
3. lane
4. ring

The government __________ ( = promised) to provide more tax breaks for the middle class.

1. pledged
2. plagued
3. pleaded
4. pleased

If an industry is "____________", it means that it is not doing too well financially.

1. illing
2. hailing
3. ailing
4. sicking

Many investors ____________ this news. ( = They were happy to hear this news)

1. improved
2. welcomed
3. swelled
4. switched

The unemployment rate has been holding __________ ( = has neither gone
up nor down) over the past couple of months.

1. steadfast
2. sturdy
3. steady
4. stable

Ford plans to ___________ ( = get rid of/eliminate) 10,000 jobs at it's main plant in Michigan.

1. cut
2. curtain
3. curtail
4. let loose

They plan to reduce their ________ by 20%. = 20% of their employees will lose their jobs.

1. workforce
2. work
3. labour
4. workmate

A lot of companies are ________
( = having a hard time) with large losses.

1. stifling
2. shifting
3. struggling
4. smuggling

Last month's job losses were the _________ ( = highest) since 1984.

1. deepest
2. steadiest
3. steepest
4. least

This company's debt __________ is pretty high. = This company has a lot of debt.

1. management
2. load
3. loss
4. consolidation

Goodbye!