Course : Business English/Bahasa Inggris II/ RM05

Lecturer : Dra. M.A. Inez Saptenno, M.Li

Date : Thursday, 13:30 – 15:10 pm
Meeting : 2nd
Agenda : 1.Listening √
2.Vocabulary √
3.Reading
4.Grammar
5.Reading
6.Writing

Name : Mohammad Reza Aprial

NPM : 223402516008

I. LISTENING : Open Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruCJnMeHb-o and

answer the questions

Young people's addiction to cryptocurrencies

QUESTIONS:

1. What's happening to the value of cryptocurrencies?

It has fallen in recent years.
It has remained stable.
It has fallen in recent weeks.

2. Are cryptocurrencies regulated?

yes
no
 yes, but only in the USA

3. Who gets hooked on (= addicted to) cryptocurrencies more?

older males
middle-aged women
young males

4. What does the idiom "to make a quick buck" mean?

to make money quickly
to start making money
to talk to a financial advisor

5. What to you need to start trading crypto?

an account with a reputable
bank a phone
a financial advisor

TRANSCRIPT

Change the underlined sentences into Affirmative sentence, e.g. BMKG predicts the weather
OR Negative sentence, e.g. BMKG doesn’t predict climate change OR Question, e.g. Does
BMKG predict inflation?

0:00 now if you're a follower of

0:01 cryptocurrencies you'll probably have
Negative sentence: I’am not a follower of cryptocurrencies.
Question sentence: Are you a follower of cryptocurrencies?
0:03 seen that the value of many has fallen
0:05 dramatically in recent weeks having
0:07 grown massively in recent years well
0:10 critics of these Investments have Wards
0:12 the dangers posed by the fact that
0:13 they're so easy to access and because
Question sentence: Have critics of these Investments have Wards posed the danger?
Negative sentence: They aren’t so easy to access that by the fact.
0:16 they're on Regulators there are a few
0:18 Protections in place for investors from
0:20 Singapore Mariko oi reports
0:23 trading thousands of dollars over a ten
0:27 dollar meal for digital natives entry
0:30 into the crypto spaces anytime and
0:32 everywhere when 20 year old Paxton Sito
0:35 decided to get into cryptocurrency
0:37 trading last year all he needed was his
Question sentence: Did Paxton Sito decided to get into cryptocurrency trading last year?
Negative sentence: He didn’t decided to get into cryptocurrency trading last year.
0:40 phone but if the entry was easy the

0:43 risks are also High the volatility of

0:46 crypto is what makes it attractive you
0:48 know like high-risk High reward kind of
0:50 thing me and my best friend was
0:51 freaking out the other day because the
0:52 market was like plunging almost 40 to 50
0:56 percent is another Gateway players can
Negative sentence: He/she wasn’t freaking out the other day because the market was like
plunging almost 40 to 50 percent.
Question sentence: Was he/she freaking out the other day because the market was like
plunging almost 40 to 50 percent?
0:59 earn non-fungible tokens or nfts and
1:02 cryptocurrencies for many the transition
1:04 from gaming for fun to gaming for crypto
1:07 doesn't feel like a big leap and along
1:10 with app-based trading entry into this
1:13 virtual world has real money
1:14 consequences
1:16 but cryptocurrencies nfds and other
1:19 digital assets are still in their
1:21 infancy and their unregulated meaning
1:24 there's little consumer protection it's
1:26 also difficult to get financial advice
1:28 because traditional experts many of them
1:31 see trading in them as gambling it's a
1:34 world that can suck you in
1:37 some of those who get hooked end up here
1:39 therapist Andy Leach says young and in
1:43 particular male clients get addicted to
1:45 the Bots you have the ability to watch
Negative sentence: He doesn’t says young and in particular male clients get addicted to the
Bots.
Question sentence: Does Andy Leach says young and in particular male clients get addicted
to the Bots?
1:49 Bitcoin uh going up down and basically
1:52 this this process this roller coaster
1:54 ride of like whoa the highs from the
1:57 lows and it's available on your phone 24
2:00 7.
2:02 for Kelvin Kong his loss was also
2:05 Financial after making more than six
2:07 figures by trading crypto in 2017. he
2:10 lost half a million in the following
2:12 year when prices plunged I think I
2:15 almost went into depressions a lot of
2:16 youngsters nowadays they just jump in my
2:18 advice to them is uh don't be like me
2:21 you know don't don’t don’t be uh greedy
2:24 or big-headed despite cautionary tales
2:27 many young Traders are still following
2:29 in his footsteps in a hoop of making a
2:32 quick Buck marikoi BBC News Singapore
 Question sentence: Is many young Traders are still following in his footsteps in a hoop of
making a quick Buck?
Negative sentence: Many young Traders aren’t still following in his footsteps in a hoop of
making a quick Buck

II. VOCABULARY – Find as many suffixes in the above transcript as you can. E.g. follow – er
(Noun) Remember the previous exercise about suffixes.

1. Dramatically 6. Therapist

2. Massively 7. Gaming

3. Figures 8. Making

4. Big-headed 9. Fallen

5. Assets 10. Consequences

QUESTIONS:
(Choose the best response for each one)

1. Let's have lunch on Thursday. = Let's _____________________ on Thursday.

do lunch lunch

eat lunch

2. Generally speaking, a good manager ____________________ a smooth production process.

ensures makes
sure

is sure

3. Good time management skills are ____________________ ( = very important) to maintaining a

smooth workflow. critique criticized

critical

4. I was ____________________ with my other tasks to finish the report.

very busy too

busy

excessively busy

5. I'd like to have that by ____________________ Friday.

end of the day ending

end of day/ the end of

6. I'm happy to inform you that we've reached another ____________________ ( = significant
completion point) with the successful completion of user testing. milestone mile

marker

7. After you visualize and plan a project, you have to ____________________ it. implement
imply

implode

8. In the modern business world, "assigning multiple resources to a single activity" means:

spending lots of money to do a task getting

one person to do a task

getting two or more people to do a task

9. We need someone who knows how to use offline advertising to ____________________ ( =

increase) online sales.

gain drive

get

10. These issues could ______________________ ( = endanger) the completion of this project.

jeopardy jeopardize

danger

11. When someone "brings something to the table", it means that he/she _____________________.

has something to offer has

nothing to offer

buy everyone lunch

12. HP is one of Dell's main _____________________.

computers

competitors
controllers

13. It's pretty hard to _____________________ against big, established companies. compete
complete

competition

14. James _____________________ last year.

changed his jobs changed

jobs

made a change in jobs

15. It's not good to _____________________ yourself entirely to your career.

denigrate detonate

dedicate

16. Bill, I need your _____________________ on this. What do you think of this design? intake
install

input

17. I thought you _____________________ at the conference.

did a really good job really

did a job

did really a good job

18. P1: We've got a meeting in 10 minutes. Do I have to _____________________? P2: Yes, you do.
atone attend

attain

19. I'd like you to do a little _____________________ on investment strategies. present presenting

presentation

20. He's away ______________________ at the moment, but he'll be back in an hour.
from his desk from
a desk from the
desk