Includes glossary and transcripts.

"English for Economics is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of economics who are about the enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist economics language they need to participate successfully within an economics faculty. Extensive listening exercises come from economics lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key economics vocabulary that students will need.

Listening: how to understand and take effective notes on extended lectures, including how to follow the argument and identify the speaker's point of view.

Speaking: how to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations, from seminars to presentations, including how to develop an argument and use stance markers.

Reading: how to understand a wide range of texts, from academic textbooks to Internet articles, including how to analyze complex sentences and identify such things as the writer's stance.

Writing: how to produce coherent and well-structured assignments, including such skills as paraphrasing and the use of the appropriate academic phrases.

Vocabulary: a wide range of activities to develop students' knowledge and use of key vocabulary, both in the field of psychology and of academic study in general.

Vocabulary and Skills banks: a reference source to provide students with revision of the key words and phrases and skills presented in each unit. Full transcripts of all listening exercises." (Source: Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Unit 1: ECONOMICS IN THE MODERN WORLD (Listening + Speaking)

TOPICS
Why economics is important
The role of economists
How economics shapes our lives

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words from general English with a special meaning in economics
Prefixes and suffixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening
Preparing for a lecture
Predicting lecture content from the introduction
Understanding lecture organization
Choosing an appropriate form of notes
Making lecture notes

Speaking
Speaking from notes

Unit 2: HOW ECONOMICS IS ORGANIZED (Reading + Writing)

TOPICS
Divisions of economics
Economic stakeholders
Macro and microeconomics

VOCABULARY FOCUS
English-English dictionaries: headwords - definition - parts of speech - phonemes - stress markers - countable/uncountable - transitive/intransitive

SKILLS FOCUS

READING
Using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text
Using topic sentences to get an overview of the text

WRITING
Writing topic sentences
Summarizing a text

Unit 3: MARKET ECONOMICS (Listening + Speaking)

TOPICS
Market principles
Concepts in markets
Market equilibrium
Marginality

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Stress patterns in multi-syllable words
Prefixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening
Preparing for a lecture
Predicting lecture content
Making lecture notes
Using different information sources

Speaking
Reporting research findings
Formulating questions

Unit 4: ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY (Reading + Writing)

TOPICS
Technology and economic change
The use of economics in economics and finance

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Computer jargon
Abbreviations and acronyms
Discourse and stance markers
Verb and noun suffixes

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading
Identifying topic development within a paragraph
Using the Internet effectively
Evaluating Internet search results

Writing
Reporting research findings

Unit 5: ECONOMICS, GLOBALIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (Listening + Speaking)

TOPICS
The global economy
The role of foreign direct investment
Emerging markets and comparative advantage
Multinational corporations

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Word sets: synonyms, antonyms, etc.
The language of trends
Common lecture language

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening
Understanding "signpost language" in lectures
Using symbols and abbreviations in note-taking

Speaking
Making effective contributions to a seminar

Unit 6: MACROECONOMICS... BUT MICROFINANCE! (Reading + Writing)

TOPICS
Growth
Microfinance
Fair trade
Case study in microfinance

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Synonyms, replacement subjects, etc., for sentence-level paraphrasing

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading
Locating key information in complex sentences

Writing
Reporting findings from other sources: paraphrasing
Writing complex sentences

Unit 7: SAVING, SPENDING... BORROWING AND LENDING! (Listening + Speaking)

TOPICS
Aggregate demand
Expenditure
Budget deficits

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Compound nouns
Fixed phrases from economics
Fixed phrases from academic English
Common lecture language

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening
Understanding speaker emphasis

Speaking
Asking for clarification
Responding to queries and requests for clarification

Unit 8: THE ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE (Reading + Writing)

TOPICS
Price elasticity of demand
Buffer stocks
Food security
Commodity prices

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Synonyms
Nouns from verbs
Definitions
Common "direction" verbs in essay titles (discuss, analyze, evaluate, etc.)

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading
Understanding dependent clauses with passives

Writing
Paraphrasing
Expanding notes into complex sentences
Recognizing different essay types/structures: descriptive - analytical - comparison/evaluation - argument
Writing essay plans
Writing essays

Unit 9: THE ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE (Listening + Speaking)

TOPICS
Welfare economics
Vertical equity
Pareto efficiency
Health care indicators

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Fixed phrases from economics
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening
Using the Cornell note-taking system
Recognizing digressions in lectures

Speaking
Making effective contributions to a seminar
Referring to other people's ideas in a seminar

Unit 10: THE ECONOMICS OF SPORT (Reading + Writing)

TOPICS
Funding
Legacy effects
Staging mega-events
Investment in sport
Derived demand
Complementary products

VOCABULARY FOCUS
"Neutral" and "marked" words
Fixed phrases from economics
Fixed phrases from academic English

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading
Recognizing the writer's stance and level of confidence or tentativeness
Inferring implicit ideas

Writing
Writing situation-problem-solution-evaluation essays
Using direct quotations
Compiling a bibliographic/reference list

Unit 11: LABOUR MARKETS (Listening + Speaking)

TOPICS
Trafficking
Migration
Demographic factors
Labour market trends

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Words/phrases used to link ideas (moreover, as a result, etc.)
Stress patterns in noun phrases and compounds
Fixed phrases from academic English
Words/phrases related to labour market issues

SKILLS FOCUS

Listening
Recognizing the speaker's stance
Writing up notes in full

Speaking
Building an argument in a seminar
Agreeing/disagreeing

Unit 12: STRATEGY, POLICY AND ECONOMIC CHANGE (Reading + Writing)

TOPICS
SMART framework
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Economics and ecosystems

VOCABULARY FOCUS
Verbs used to introduce ideas from other sources (x contends/suggests/asserts that...)
Linking words conveying contrast (whereas), result (consequently), reasons (due to), etc.
Words for quantities (a significant minority)

SKILLS FOCUS

Reading
Understanding how ideas in a text are linked

Writing
Deciding whether to use direct quotation or paraphrase
Incorporating quotations
Writing research reports
Writing effective introductions/conclusions

Upper intermediate to proficiency ; IELTS 5.0 - 7.5+ ; CEF B2-C2.

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