BUSINESS ENGLISH CLASS                                            

 

     Assignment—Stock Markets

For the next two weeks we want to become more familiar with the stock market. To this end we'll be listening to various videos related to this theme. As you listen to the videos keep a protocol on paper in which you note down the title of the video, and take down any notes about points to remember.

To start, go to Investopedia Videos and watch as many of these videos as you can. This site has very good educational videos. What are stocks? is a good starting point. And don't miss the explantion of P/E Ratio.

After that, watch How to Pick Stocks like Warren Buffett .

Finally, prepare information in order to be able to participate in a four-corner in class next week about whether to recommend one of the following:

  • strong buy,
  • moderate buy,
  • neutral,
  • moderate sell or
  • strong sell

for shares of one of the following stocks: Facebook, Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase or ???

Try to consider the following kinds of information: