Unit 03
Understanding the Stock
Market
職場攻略/市場業務
Workplace English/Communication skills
BRAIN STORM
Share your ideas with your teacher and try to make sentences.
What do you think are stocks?
What do you think is a stock market?
VOCABULARY
Repeat these sentences after your teacher.
1. plunge (v.) 猛跌，驟降
The value of our stock has taken a major plunge.
我們的股票價格暴跌。
2. weigh in (n.) 加入
You have to weigh in the good and bad.
你必須權衡好壞。
3. profitable (adj.) 有利可圖的
Stocks are still profitable in the near future.
在不久的將來，股票仍然有利可圖。
4. high yield (phr.) 高產的
You still have some high yield trash bonds.
你仍然有一些高收益垃圾債券。
5. think outside the box (idiom.) 擺脫思維定勢
When you have to solve a problem, it’s good to think outside the box.
當您必須解決問題時，最好跳出思路。
6. liquidity (adj.) 流動資金
Government bonds will give us liquidity.
政府債券將給我們流動性。
7. bull market (n.) 牛市
A bull market become a bear market!
牛市變成熊市！
8. bear market (n.) 熊市
Is a bear market good or bad?
熊市是好是壞？
Dialogue
Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
Sorry to bother you sir, but I have some bad news.
不好意思打擾您先生，我有一個壞消息。
What is it?
什麼事？
Well, the stock market just took a huge plunge and we’ve lost a lot of money!
嗯，股市大跌，我們損失慘重！
What do you mean? What happened?
什麼意思？ 發生什麼事了？
There are many factors that weigh in, but NASDAQ is down 200 points and the Dow Jones indicator also suffered! Our portfolio is worth half of what it was worth one week ago.
有許多因素綜合在內，但納斯達克指數跳水200個百分點，道瓊斯指數也受到影響。 我們的資產比一周前縮水一半。
How is this possible? You are supposed to be talking to our stockbrokers and making sure that our securities and investments are safe and making a profitable return!
怎麼可能？ 你應該和我們的股票經紀人談談確保我們的債券及投資安全並且得到相應的回報率！
I know sir! We didn’t expect a bull market to become a bear market all of a sudden. On the other hand, you still have some high yield trash bonds and government bonds that will give us enough liquidity to cut our losses and reinvest in emerging markets. We could potentially make this tragedy work for us and make us think outside the box.
我知道先生！ 我們沒想到牛市忽然變成了熊市。 另外您手上還持有高回報率的垃圾債券和國債，這樣就給了我們足夠的流動資金來投資新興市場以彌補我們的損失。 我們可以打破傳統思維方式扭虧為盈。
Do what you have to do! One other thing, don’t tell the rest of the stockholders about this. If they find out, it’s the end of this company!
做你該做的事！ 另外，這件事不要告訴其他股東。 如果他們知道了，公司就完了！
Expansion
think outside the box
think outside the box
1. When you have to solve a problem, it’s good to think outside the box.
2. Some of the great inventions of our time were invented because inventors decided to think outside the box.
3. Thinking outside the box can offer a different and novel perspective on things and life.
Grammar
make sure短語用於提醒或敦促某人完成某事。後面可以加名詞,動詞不定式,或單獨使用。可以與”be sure”交互使用,但是”be sure”不能單獨使用。
The phrase “make sure” is used when reminding or urging someone to do something. It can be followed by a noun, a verb in its infinitive form (to verb), or used alone. It’s interchangeable with the phrase “be sure“ except that “be sure” cannot be used alone.
1. Make sure to double-check your presentation before the meeting.
2. Make sure you go to the post office after work.
3. I need to make sure I don’t forget my umbrella.
4. Please make sure to turn off the lights when you leave.
5. Make sure to feed my cat while I’m gone.
DISCUSSION
Make a conversation with your teacher.
1.What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of buying stocks in the stock market?
