Ex.6 Fill in the gaps

You won't generally come across too many markets where there's one

dominant¹__________ outside the, sort of,²__________________ and the

³___________ We used to do, under the previous legislation, what were called

monopoly investigations, but now they're known as⁴_______________, as

to some extent that reflects that you're not usually looking at one player dominating

one particular market but maybe a small⁵________ That's not necessarily

a bad thing, it all depends on the structure of that market and to what degree

they're competing with each other. We've just been looking at the⁶____

market, that's... I would say using, using the term advisedly, dominated by big four

supermarkets, certainly got the⁷__________________ of the …... people's

Are supermarkets abusing their dominant position?

shopping, but at the same time they're competing very vigorously with each other, so that's not necessarily anything we'd, we'd look to intervene in.

Ex.7

2 Give synonyms for 1, 5 and 7.

3 Give explanations or definitions for:

2____________________________________________________________________________

3______________________________________________________________________________

6______________________________________________________________________________

Listening 3: Breaking the law and abusing a dominant position