English · Ethics in Business

Vocabulary — business ethics, corruption, fraud, counterfeiting

Naming what a company does right, and what it does wrong

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important
  • Experimental sciences important
  • Mathematics important
  • Engineering important
  • Management and economics important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Topic vocabulary: ethics, corruption, fraud, counterfeiting, social responsibility
  • Pronunciation pattern of words ending in '-ics' (ethics, economics)

The method

  1. Group vocabulary by register (legal/business) before drilling

The common mistakes

  • Treating 'ethics' as always plural in meaning (it takes a singular verb as a subject)

From the lesson

An accountant prepares the yearly report. The company lost money, but investors are expecting good news. So the accountant quietly changes the numbers: a loss becomes a profit on paper.

The vocabulary

  • corruption (فساد)
  • counterfeit goods (سلع مقلدة)
  • social responsibility (المسؤولية الاجتماعية)