SECTION OVERVIEW
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LEAD-IN
Contents
| 1.1 | Lead-in | Section overview |
| 1.2 | Language Input | Developing vocabulary |
| 1.3 | Background Information[3] | Economic Activity |
| 1.4 | Comprehension | Understanding the reading Reviewing the concept |
| 1.5 | Speaking & Writing | |
| Language focus | Saying numbers | |
| Presenting information | Summarising & Writing Essays | |
| Communication skills | Introducing people | |
| 1.6 | Dialogue | Oh, these expenses, ...! |
| 1.7 | Reading for Cross-cultural Associations | Pocket money |
| 1.8 | Role-play | Consumer skills: Making a personal budget |
| 1.9 | Grammar Back Up | Practice with Nouns & their Determiners: |
| Nouns Articles Demonstratives Other Determiners Practice with Subjects |
Your grandparents probably never attended a class called economics. Yet, they had to think about how to meet their needs for goods and services. Today's world is more complex. A knowledge of economics, the study of how people and countries use their resources to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services, is important to everyone now. Your understanding of economics will influence how you earn a living and help you make better economic decisions.
Discuss the following questions, make use of the prompts in brackets:
1. When did you make the first economic discoveries?
(to want, to have, to buy, to sell things; children, young people, adults)
2. Why do the economic problems arise?
(unlimited wants and needs, to be limited, goods, services, to have enough money, to earn)
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