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Business ethics
 * CONVERSATION**
 * What do you understand by the term "business ethics"?
 * Can you think of any companies or business which would be considered ethical or unethical? Which ones and why?
 * If you received a very good salary would you be prepared to work for a tobacco company or for a company which damaged the environment?
 * What would you do if you discovered that your company was stealing vast amounts of clients' or government money?
 * Is making money the only thing a company should be concerned about? If not, what else should companies be concerned about?

Lesson plan on tourism []
 * LESSONS** ([|Business English])

[|ageism laws let older bankers sue for millions] [|Swiss banks promise less secrecy] [|Japanese economy hitting record lows] [|Banks in court over charges to customers] [|Outsourcing on the increase]

Americans spending at record rates[| Easier] [|Harder]

**Vocabulary exercises for business at[| Nonstop English]**
 * OUP Vocabulary (beginner): [|Jobs]**
 * Vocabulary: [|Business Expressions]**

Business Travel [] [|Assets Part 1]: [|Assets Part 2]: [|Depreciation] [|Depreciation 2] [|Depreciation 3]
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CONVERSATION //Credit Crunch//

 * Who do you think is most responsible for the credit crunch?
 * The banks
 * George Bush
 * Somebody else
 * Do you think that some companies should be "bailed out" (given money) by governments? Under what circumstances should this happen?
 * Some companies are called "too big to fail." What do you understand by this?
 * Some say that if a company is "too big to fail" it is also "too big to exist", and should be broken up into smaller units. What is your opinion?
 * One of the main reasons for the existing crisis is the fact that cheap money was pumped into the economy. Governments have responded by reducing interest rates even further and by trying to persuade banks to lend more money. What is your opinion of this policy?
 * Governments have invented ways of simply creating money to fight the crisis and increase the quantity of money in the system. What do you think the consequences of this will be?
 * Instead of the well-known problem of inflation (where prices increase), during the crisis some countries faced deflation (where prices fall). Why should falling prices be a problem?
 * House prices are now falling in many parts of the world. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?
 * Is it the governments obligation to try to maintain full employment in their countries?
 * Which problem should governments be most concerned about - unemployment or inflation? What actions can they take to control these two problems?
 * Many people feel that the recent global crisis was caused by the banks - who then, for some reason, had to be bailed out with taxpayers' money. As a consequence of these bailouts some banks made enormous profits. How do you feel about the fact that many bankers then paid themselves huge bonuses as a consequence of these enormous profits?

Read a recent article on a possible second bank failure in the UK at : []

BEING A LEADER starting a movement - cool 3 minute TED talk by Derek Sivers http://www.freetech 4teachers. com/2010/ 09/ted-talk- how-to-start- movement. html


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HOMEWORK Check your banking vocabulary . Click on the correct answer: 1. I see ___sourcing as a way to get our customers more involved in the design process."__ Crowdsourcing is a portmanteau word created from "crowd" and "outsourcing". It refers to the obtaining (or outsourcing) of work, services or ideas to a group of people (or crowd). In some ways, it's similar to the old-style suggestions box found in many companies, except that crowdsourcing makes use of the internet, including Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Wikis, and can therefore reach a lot of people both inside and outside of the company very quickly. This can lead to more innovative ideas, but it can also have a downside . The company may end up spending a lot of time and resources on sifting through the ideas — or receive very few, which can be extremely frustrating. Cloud computing , on the other hand, is the renting of computer resources and services through the internet.
 * a) cloud **
 * b) crowd **

2. "You may think the investment would be money down the _, but I disagree." [|"drain" or "train"?] If you throw (or, in colloquial English, "chuck") money down the drain, you are wasting it. This is an informal idiomatic expression that is often used to criticize spending plans — or taxes. throw money down the drain

3. "Internet problems continue to ___ the company." [|"cat" or "dog"?] When a problem or issue dogs somebody, it causes that person trouble, usually over a longer period of time

4. E-books have become very popular. There's been a ............... change in the book market. a) [|sea] b) lake

Online tests : [|Assets:] [|Depreciation]: 1. Early adopters - Look over the past products you have launched during the last decades, find out who bought them first, then profile them. 2. C, D. E. - because they are not ready for it.