Reading and speaking

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 486.

What Is Economics?

Pronunciation

A career in economics

MODULE 1

1. Look at the underlined letters in the words below. Are they pronounced [i] or [e]? Read the words. Which of them deal with economics?

economics effects education desire extra decide

resources demand expenditure employee error expenses

spend estimate behavior essay predict develop

2. There's no one universally accepted answer to this question. Browsing the web, we'll find various answers to the question. Read them and answer the questions.

a.Which of the definitions do you find the best? Why?

b.Which of the definitions do you disagree? Why?

c. What do you think economics should study?

3. Read and complete the text with the words from the box.