Stocks & Shares （ continuous ）

1. Stocks & Shares（continuous） English Department, Huzhou Teachers College

2. Objectives • 1) To enable students to talk about financial trends. • 2) Learn to describe the rise and fall of a share. • 3) To review the language of similarity and difference. • 4) To enable students to discuss trends in writing.

3. Tasks and schemes • 1)Check 8’ • 2)Describe graphs. 37’ • 3) Reading one 20’ • 4) Oral practice 25’

4. Factors to consider when making investment options选择投资时需考虑的因素： • Yield the desired level of profits • With excellent export performance • Smaller scale industry adds to the flexibility • An industry with clear growth potential, particularly in the export markets • The restructuring program would deliver the company’s performance improvements • The consolidation strategy would increase its investment and bring in greater operating margins

5. Reading on p.17 Background information • Stock price index股票价格指数：指用以反映股票市场价格变化，普遍为人们所接受并用于分析判断股价趋势的数字。 • 世界主要股票指数有： • Dow-Jones Averages(道琼斯工业指数(表示美国证券市场一般涨跌行情的指数,由美国纽约Dow Jones公司所发表) • London Financial Time Stock Exchange Index

6. Topix Tokyo Stock Price Index 东京股票价格指数 • Tokyo Nikkei Average（日本）东京证券交易所指数 • Shanghai Stock Index • Security Secondary market二级市场：是对已发行的股票进行买卖的市场，通常是在各国股票市场如证券交易所、证券公司等进行再交易实现的。 • Security contains stock and bond(债券) • Amex: American Stock Exchange

7. Corresponding exercises: • Match the letters with the sentences: • Div: dividend. Amount paid out to shareholders for each dollar invested • P/E: price / earning ratio. Current share price divided by earnings per share. • Vol 100s: volume. Number of company’s shares traded on previous day. 100s指100股单位，通常股票最低交易单位为一手即100股。

8. High/low: the highest and lowest prices during previous day. • Last: price of shares at close of previous day’s business. • Chng: change. Change in share price compared with previous day.

9. Read the extract on page 17 and answer my questions: • What was the price of Apple Computer shares at the close of trading? • 46 7/16 • How many Andrew Corporation shares were traded? • 7057

10. What was the price/earning ratio of Altera shares? • 42 • What was Atmel’s lowest share price? • 231/8 • Which company’s shares showed the biggest change in share price? • Amazon.com