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An interview with Ben Bernanke
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5069647n

                                                      Part 1 

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 TASKS: 

 1) Match the words (1-12) with their synonyms or explanations (A-L):   2) Match the words to produce the proper collocations:

  After viewing 

 Discuss the following questions: 



1 What signs of recovery will be visible in the near future according to Ben Bernanke?

2 What is necessary to be done to curb the unemployment rate?

3 What is Bernanke`s critical judgement about not rescuing Lehman Brothers?

4 Why did he act so generously with regard to AIG?

5 Why did the Fed fail to lead America out of the recession in 1929 and instead turn it into a global calamity?

6 What is stress test intended for?

