Contents
  • Key Vocabulary: The Stock Market
  • Language Focus: The Third Conditional; 
   Phrasal Verbs, Advebs: yet, still, already
  • Skills: Analysing share price listings, Buying 
   shares, Listening to a radio stock market 
   report
            Key Vocabulary
   • stock market (or stock exchange) – a place for buying and selling shares
   • shares ( US stocks) – units of capital
   • equities -shares issued by a company entitling their holders to a dividend 
    according to the profits of the company and to a claim on net assets 
   • to issue – to publish, to emit
   • investors - someone who gives capital in order to gain financial returns 
   • broker - an agent who buys or sells goods, securities 
   • shareholder (US stockholder) - the owner of shares in a company
   • dividend - part of a company's profits paid to its shareholders 
   • bonds – loans for fixed periods with fixed interest rates
   • securities - a certificate of ownership, such as a share, stock, or bond 
   • to trade – to buy and sell for profit 
     Possible Exam Question
  • Name as many as possible verbs which can 
   describe the change in the share price.
               Answer
   Intransitive verbs – verbs which do not have objects
   Transitive verbs – verbs which have objects
   Upward movement 
   Intransitive verbs: increase, rise, go up, soar, rocket.
   The population is increasing.
   Transitive verbs: increase, raise.
   The government has raised taxes.
   Downward movement
   Intransitive verbs: decrease, go down, fall, decline, drop, slide, slip 
    plummet.
   The prices have fallen.
   Transitive verbs: decrease, reduce, drop.
   We reduced our prices.
   Level off, fluctuate, stay the same
     Listening, pg. 75