Sumários

Technical vocab

30 Novembro 2010, 16:30 Ann Henshall

Skills focus: speaking and listening

Student led correction of topics 8.3 and 3.2. Assigned 2.1 and 2.4 for homework.

Consolidated students' uderstanding of the subprime crisis. Assigned writing V. Write the explanatory text for the flow chart your group developed to explain the subprime crisis. Due next week.


An ABC of financial shocks and fiscal aftershocks

30 Novembro 2010, 15:00 Ann Henshall

Skills focus: reading, speaking, listening

Analysis and discussion of Martin Wolf's editorial (Financial Times, 28 May 2010) (The Financial Crisis: p6,7)


From the subprime crisis to the ABC of crises

29 Novembro 2010, 18:00 Ann Henshall

Skills focus: speaking, listening

Groups presented their flow charts to explain the subprime crisis. Consolidated the way the system worked by watching the Bird and Fortune sketch.

Pre-reading vocabulary. (Ex D p 8)


From the subprime crisis to the ABC of crises

29 Novembro 2010, 16:30 Ann Henshall

Skills focus: speaking, listening

Groups presented their flow charts to explain the subprime crisis. Consolidated the way the system worked by watching the Bird and Fortune sketch.

Pre-reading vocabulary. (Ex D p 8)


The financial crisis

23 Novembro 2010, 16:30 Ann Henshall

Skills focus: speaking & listening

Groups finalised conceptual reconfigurations on the role of investment banks in financial markets.