VOCABULARY BUILD-

UP, FUTURE FORMS

SHORT PRESENTATIONS
 BUILDING NEW WORDS
PROFITABLE --- What could be added to
the beginning or end?
Unprofitable, profitabILITY
AFFIXES: SUFFIXES, PREFIXES
SUFFIXES: changing the form of the
word, PREFIXES: changing the meaning
SUFFIXES
Misery (n)- miserable
Senior (adj.)- seniority
Custom(n)- customer
Expand (v)- expansion
Origin (n)- originate
 PREFIXES : IN, UN, IR, IM, DIS,
DE
Market (n)- downmarket, upmarket
Decrease (n) – increase
Payment (n)- prepayment
Estimate (v)- overestimate
Compress (v)- decompress
Available (adj.)- unavailable
OPPOSITES 1: PREFIXES
__Continue __Recoverable
__Possible __Honor
__Movable __Visible
__Sufficient __Laden
__Solvent __Allow
__Regulate __Inflationary
Attach affixes to the following
words
 Diverse -  Diversity

 Inspire –  Inspired/unispired/inspiration

 Opportune –  Opportunity/opportunism/opport
uness
 Design –
 Designer
 Public –
 Publicity/publicise
 Commerce –
 Commercial/uncommercial
 Revolution –
 Revolutionary/revolutionise
 Repute –
 Reputation/reputed/reputable/di
 Comfort – sreputable

 Retail -  Discomfort/comfortable/uncomfo
rtable
FUTURE FORMS
Forms used for future?
Present Continuous (Fixed arrangement)
“I’m meeting Nike’s CEO today at 2 p.m.”
Present Simple (Timetabled event)
“We start the visit with the tour of BMW
factory.”
Going to (personal intention and prediction)
 “We are going to launch a new product…”
 “The new product is going to win us market share.”
Will + infinitive (spontaneous decision and prediction,
things we want to make happen)
 “There is no answer. I’ll try again later”
 “There is no doubt in my mind. We will succeed.”
 I’ll finish everything before I leave on holiday.
Will or going to?
 Often either verb phrase is possible with no
change in meaning.
a) I think it’ll rain later.
b) I think it is going to rain later.
 However, will has a more spontaneous feel,
whereas going to suggests present evidence.
a) We’re late so we’ re not going to hit our
deadline.
b) He’s late but I’m sure he’ll be here soon.
Choosing the correct
future form
 “I’m tired. I _________ to bed now. Goodnight. (go)
 “ I ___________ tomorrow, so we can go out
somewhere. (not/work)
 “That bag looks heavy. I _______ you with it. (help)
 “We shouldn’t be late. The film ______ at 6.30. (start)
 https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/tenses-
comparison/future-tenses/exercises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=62Kyu5mz6iI&feature=related
Group A Summary of main problems
“Volkswagen AG”
Introduction
 Collapse of Latin America market- VW has invested
heavily in Brazil (Name, Job Title,
Topic, Outline:
 Fall in dollar revenues from US operations
Firstly, Secondly,
Finally… )
 Shrinking European market for medium-sized cars
Development
Conclusion
 Increased competition in Asian markets (reduced
(Recommendations
market share in China from 50 per cent to 30 per
for action)
 Cheaper company brands (Seat/Skoda) are affecting
margins and profitability
 Poor performance of new models (low sales of luxury
cars and new Golf)