Materiál na 18.3.08

   COURSEBOOK,  p. 96; LISTENING

   

   TASK Complete the text with the words and phrases you hear:

   

   Probably the most serious was with the timing of the IPO – it was set for August and that´s
   not the best time to get the financial community 1. __________ because it´s right in the
   middle of the summer vacation. Secondly, there was the attitude 2.
   _____________________________ the company´s plans. These were never published 3.
   _______________ and investors were 4. _________________________ what the company was planning.
   Lastly, the 5. _________________ the auction was complicated, and, 6._____________ , instead
   of simplifying things, it really made it more difficult for investors to buy shares. However,
   7. __________________ , I should add that for investors, the Google IPO was a really great
   oportunity: they could buy at a relatively low price and within a few days the shares 8.
   ___________________ $ 125.

   

   WORKBOOK,  p. 47; READING

   

   TASK Find in the text words defined by the following:

   Par 1

   1. _______________ = to sound familiar

   2. _______________ = (usually plural) someone who is injured or killed in an accident or
   military action

   3. ____________ =  a time when a period of economic success ends suddenly, opposite of the
   word boom

   4. ___________ = time of great excitement and feeling you can achieve what you want

   5. _________ = to risk money or something valuable in the hope of winning more if you are
   lucky or if you guess something correctly

   6. _________ = if the value, amount or level of sth_________, it rises very quickly

   

   Par 2

   1. __________ something to someone/something = to say that someone or something has a specific
   quality, especially a bad one, or is guilty of something

   2. _______________ = the total value of all a company’s shares, calculated by multiplying the
   number of shares by their price on the stock exchange

   3. _______________ = a computer program that searches the Internet for information, especially
   by looking for documents containing a particular word or group of words

   4. ______________ = a company or person that is new in a business, but may already be becoming
   important

   5.  ______________ = a) to prove that something is present using scientific methods, b) to
   notice something, especially when it is not obvious

   6. _______________ = a situation that cannot last in which prices rise very quickly and many
   people make a lot of money

   

   Par 3

   1. _______________________ = to start to work together in order to achieve a shared goal

   2. _____________________ = to be as good as what was expected

   3. ___________________ = to disappear, usually gradually

   4. _______________ = the act of forming a new, independent company from part of an existing
   one; a company formed in this way

   5. _________________ = not to make as much money as expected or as sb/sth else

   6. _________________ = likely to end in failure or death  

   

   

   Par 4

   1. __________________ = to show a comparison between things

   2. _____________ = to stop being effective or making progress

   3. ____________ = the time when something stops existing

   4. _______________- = not practical because it has not been thought about carefully 

   5. ____________ = the use of a lot of advertisements and other PUBLICITY to influence or
   interest people

   6. _______________ = to do sth that is a risk

   

   Par 5

   1. ____________ = the result that you wanted to achieve from a plan or idea

   2. _____________= the money that is received by a business usually from selling goods or
   services

   3. _______________ = to be suddenly reduced to a much lower level

   

   Par 6

   1. _________________ = to have a more secure position

   2. ________________ = impossible to think about or imagine

   3. _______________= in a way that shows you think someone has done something wrong

   4. ________________ = enjoyable but not serious or important

   

   

   COURSEBOOK,  p. 100; D+D

   

   

   1. The whole Hi Wire store shows that it is not always easy _______________________.

   2. The timing wasn´t the best one; it was clear the______________________________.

   3. The real problem was that their stocks were____________________. They
   ________________________________ at all.

   4. The thing was that the company and the investment advisers weren´t
   ______________________________________________________________.

   5. The enterprise is described as____________________________________________ .

   6. Both sides __________________________ the company. They couldn´t ________________.

   7. This failure didn´t do  _________________________ their reputations.