English Learning Guide
Competency 2
Unit 2: Maths
Workshop 4
Centro de Servicios Financieros- CSF
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GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC FINANCES
This workshop attempts to help you strengthen your Math skills in English and business vocabulary using
the language to discuss and learn about basic concepts and how to manage your personal finances.
Objective: from the development of this workshop, you will be able to talk about basic concepts of
finances.
1. Work in pairs and discuss the following questions1:
- How important it is to you to save money?
- Which one do you consider to be the best bank to have a savings account in
your city? Why? Which one is in your opinion the worst? Why?
- What do you understand for finances?
2. Skills practice: do the following activities to practice the learnt vocabulary and English structures.
2.1.LISTENING PRACTICE: listening about how to manage your finances.
Before listening2, discuss your following questions:
- What do you remember spending money on, when you were a child?
- Who did you get the money from?
- Do you or your family (father, mother, sister, son, etc.) plan or control your finances?
1 Image taken from: https://www.joinpiggy.com/ Used by SENA for academic purposes, exclusively.
2 Taken and adapted from: http://esol.britishcouncil.org/content/learners/uk-life/family-
learning/managing-your-finances Used by SENA for academic purposes, exclusively.
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