Description
Develop your Business Spanish through a current economic topic: foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This complete B2 Spanish lesson explores recent trends in foreign direct investment (IED), using a CEPAL press release published in June 2026 as the external reading input. Students analyse investment data, develop specialist business and economic vocabulary, interpret graphs and practise expressing contrast and concession in Spanish.
The lesson includes:
- Pre-reading discussion questions
- Specialist vocabulary related to foreign direct investment, capital flows, manufacturing, natural resources, tariffs and economic development
- Vocabulary-in-context exercises
- Word families and lexical development
- Reading comprehension based on an external CEPAL source
- Data and graph interpretation
- True/false and multiple-choice comprehension activities
- Grammar practice with aunque, pese a, pese a que, mientras que, sin embargo and en cambio
- Reformulation and contrast exercises
- Debate questions on investment, taxation, productivity, technology and economic policy
- A professional simulation in which the student acts as the lawyer for a European company considering an investment in Latin America
- Complete answer key
The professional simulation asks students to negotiate issues including investment amounts, local employment, technology transfer, tax incentives, regulatory stability, environmental obligations and monitoring mechanisms.
Level: B2
Format: PDF
Length: 12 pages
Answers: Included
Language: Spanish
Focus: Business Spanish / Economics / International Investment
Please note: The principal reading text is hosted externally on the CEPAL website and is not reproduced in this PDF. An internet connection is therefore required to access the external reading material and complete the related activities. Students do not need to read the complete CEPAL report; the linked press release and the graphs provided in the lesson are sufficient for the activities.
This resource is designed for Spanish-language learning and does not constitute legal, financial, investment or other professional advice.
