Resume Inglés VI: Money You Put in
Resume Inglés VI: Money You Put in
Joint Venture: A business activity wich two or more companies have invested in.
Stuff: Objects or material (informal, is like to say “things”)
Capital: money you lend to someone so that they can start a business Venture.
Start-up cost: the expense of setting up a new business or new Project.
A tight Budget: Careful control of cost, necessary when you have very Little money
Potential: Possibility of future success.
Return on investment: the profit you make from an activity in relation to how much
money you put in.
Payback period: The time needed to get back the costo f an investment.
Launch: put some new business or product or service into market.
Raise: put something high, like raise the prices (something was at 100 and now is
150, it raised in 50)
UNIT 7: Future plans and intentions/Career Skills: making an appointment.
Vocabulary:
Capital market: A place where people and businesses can deal in stocks and shares,
raise finance and make investments.
Investment bank: A financial institution than specialises in buying stocks and shares
and also gives financial advice to businesses.
Multinational Company: A large corporation with activities in many different
countries.
Service Sector: The companies in an economy that don’t manufacture anything, but
provide services such as banking, insurance and tourism.
Shopping mall: A large área, often inside a huge building, where there are lots of
shops.
Regional office: A company’s local office in a different country or city from their
main office
Multi-part verbs
Choose the correct Words in italics.
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
1. The market for new cars is worth (valioso/vale) about $200 million a year.
2. We estimate (estimar) that our share of the market Will be 28 per cent.
3. We are targeting high earnings (altas ganancias) consumers with salaries above $169.696
a year, who have enormous spending power(poder de adquisición)
4. Many of our customers have a debt(deuda) of $5.000 or more.
5. It Will take them several years to pay off (saldar) these loans.
6. We have a special offer this month: a 5 per cent discount, on all software products.
7. We are trying a new method (método) of selling: sending special offers by text message.
8. The company hopes that its new strategy Will give sales a boost (aumentar, impulsar).
WORD BUILDING
Vocabulary:
Certain: Will
Will: is used to talk about decisions made at the moment of speaking. Is used with maybe,
probably and perhaps.
Goint to: is used to talk about preconceived plans. (im going to get married in the spring).
Present continuous as future: It is used to talk about arrangement (im seeing my doctor at 3pm).
1. We use Will/won’t to talk about intentions when we make the decisión now to do
something in the future.
2. We use (be) going to + infinitive to talk about intentions when the decisión was already
made before.
3. We use the present continuous to talk about arrangements for things to happen at a fixed
time in the future.
Complete the sentences with the appropiate formo f the verbs in brackets.
1. We want to build up our US sales, so we (set up)_________________________ a regional
office in Chicago. (intention, decisión made).
2. I (travel) ______________________ to Chicago tomorrow on the 8:15 flight. (fixed
arrangement).
3. I (look at) ______________________ some office premises that we might rent. (intention,
decisión made).
4. How (you, travel) ______________________ round Chicago? (intention) two posible
answers.
5. Harry Schwarz (meet) ______________________ me at the airport with his car. (fixed
arrangement).
6. We don’t know wich is the best location. I (collect) ____________________ as much
information as I can. (intention, decisión made).
7. I (present) ____________________ all the options after my trip. (intention, decisión now).
The imperative
Modals of obligation
PRESENT PERFECT
The present perfect tense is formed by using the present tense of the auxiliary have and the past
participle. For negatives and questions we also use the present tense of the auxiliary have and the
past participle.
I have/’ve taken ---- I have not/haven’t taken ---- Have I taken?
PRACTICE
1. I’m going to send them a reminder. They ___________(not pay) us for their last order.
2. Some of these tech shares _____________(fall) by over 80%, and they still look very risky.
3. ______________(you/write) to them about that shipment, or do you want me to pone
them?
4. We ______________ (spend) a lot on modernizing the factory, and it is now very well
equipped.
5. Unemployment is very high here because al lof the coal mines ____________(shut) down.
6. The lawyers _____________(draw) up the contracts, so we are now ready to goa head with
the deal.
7. I _______________ (not speak) to the MD about your proposal, but i Will soon.
8. _______________(you/find) a suitable replacement for Ivan Sloboda, or is the post still
vacant?
9. Carmen _______________(Just/get) back from lunch. Why don’t you call her now?
10. Peter, ________________(you/meet) Alistair Macfarlane? He’s our new Finance Director?.
PASSIVES:
1. The passive is formed by using the correct tense of the verb to be with the past participle
of the verb.
2. We more commonly use the active form of the verb when it is important tos ay who
performed the action, or what was responsable for the event.
3. The passive form of the verb is usually used when we don’t know who or what was
responsable.
4. When passive sentences include information about the agent (who or what was responsable
for the action) we use by with the agent.
Examples:
A claim is reported by the policyholder.
If the claim is suspicious, the policyholder is informed and a live telephone interview is
arranged.
Eighteen per cent of claims are found to be fraudulent.
Your claim is being considered and a decisión Will be taken shortly.
My car has been stolen.
Three houses were destroyed by the storm.
CONDITIONAL
FIRST CONDITIONAL:
It is to talk about simple future (es algo que puede pasar seguramente), we use the present simple
in the if part of the sentence, and Will+bare infinitive in the other part.
SECOND CONDITIONAL:
It is to talk about things that would happen (no tengo seguridad de que tal cosa suceda), If adopta
el simple past y la clausula principal es el present conditional.