4. If you go for a meal with someone you don't know well, do you: a) offer to pay the whole bill? b) suggest dividing the bill into equal parts? c) offer to pay the whole bill but expect them to pay next time? d) try to avoid paying anything?
5. What do you think about people who do not pay correct amount of tax? Is this: a) a serious crime? b) morally wrong but not a crime? c) excellent business practice?
6. If you lend a colleague a small amount of money and they forget to pay it back, do you:a) say nothing b) remind them that they owe you money? c) arrange to go for a drink with them and say you've forgotten your wallet or purse?
Write one more question to add to the quiz above. Ask a partner to answer it.
Discuss your answers to the quiz. What do they say about your attitude to money? What do they say about your culture? Discussion: 1. What kind of movement do the verbs below describe?
Match them to the symbols. Then compare your answers with a partner. (Use some symbols more than once.)
decline gain drop increase rocket plummet
double fall halve level off triple recover
decrease fluctuate improve peak rise
2. Peter Bingham, President of a clothing company, is in a meeting with his
Sales Director John Amidon, and his Financial Director, Kate Simmons. Complete their conversation with appropriate forms of the verbs in brackets. Sometimes more than one tense is possible. Peter:I'm glad you decided to make it today. I'd like to start by taking a look at the year's sales and profit figures. First of all John, could you summarise the sales figures?
John: Well, we had a good January- 5.2 million. January's a difficult month because sales always _____¹ (drop) after Christmas. In February we started the new children's line and it went very well. Total sales____ ² (rise) to almost 8 million, which was nice. Unfortunately they then ____³ (plummet) after the fire in the main factory. But by the end of April we ___⁴ (recover) - 10.2 million was the figure - and since then sales ______⑤ (go up) progressively month by month. The December figures aren't in yet, but it looks like we _____⑥ (probably reach) 15 million this month.
