Economics
Matching Exercise
Match each utterance with its conversational function.
- Asking someone for their opinion about a topic
- Delaying strategies
- Presenting a number of arguments
- Giving your opinion about a topic
- Agreeing
- Disagreeing
- Countering
- Logical argument
- Clarification
- Expressing solutions and alternatives
1. If demand falls, businesses sell less, so unemployment may rise; therefore governments sometimes need to stimulate demand.
2. Yes, I agree that economic growth isn't the only measure of a successful society.
3. What do you think governments should do when the economy is struggling?
4. But if people have less money to spend, wouldn't cutting public spending make the economic situation even worse?
5. I think reducing inequality should be an important economic objective.
6. When you say "economic growth", what exactly do you mean?
7. That's a difficult one. There are arguments on both sides.
8. One alternative would be to concentrate investment on infrastructure, education and new industries.
9. I'm not convinced that increasing government spending is always the answer.
10. Governments can increase spending, reduce taxes, raise taxes, cut public spending or encourage private investment.