Unit 1a Team work.

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1 Unit 1a Team work

2 Measuring performance
What information is used to measure the performance of a company? Where you can find this information?

3 Listening 2.listening to television report about Budgens, a supermarket chain, which of the following are mentioned? Did they rise of fall? Profit turnover share price sales volume dividends

4 reference Profit went up (by 9.8%).The dividend went up( now half a penny per share)The share price was volatile: rising, collapsing, recovering, declining and improving again ( up by 1.3 pence at 67 1/2)Turnover and sales volume were not mentioned.

5 3.Listen again and answer the questions below
The company is following a strategy of expansion into other areas: petrol and computer-based home shopping (Tele Shop Service) It is not yet very successful; it is only breaking even and is not expected to do much more this year. Because people thought there would be a takeover. News of good trading results.

6 explanations …Teleshop Services, which specializes in developing computer-based home shopping.…专门从事开发利用电脑进行家庭购物的电子购物服务。 …the business is only operating at breakeven and isn’t expected to do much more this year …这项业务盈亏平衡，今年无望盈利。 …it’s been pretty volatile.……一直很不稳定，volatile是指市场，价格等的波动，大幅度的变化。比如：the ups and downs of volatile stocks 易波动的股票上下浮动

7 explanations 4. at the height of rumours,……在传言最甚的时候。At the height of 意思为“最高峰”。比如：at the height of her career. 在她事业的最高峰 5. By mid-October it had fallen as far as the 55 pence mark…到10中旬，股票价格跌到了55便士的价位。 6. …so shareholders are in profit over the 12 month period. 在过去的12月期间，股东们是盈利的。