The teaching plan of the practical lesson №1

Reader activity

Instantial relations

Financial and economic are very often used synonymously (e.g. 'The government has closed down the unit for financial/economic reasons'). How are they used in the following text? What possible interpretations could be put on the writer's choice of the words? (The writer is criticising a proposal to close a railway line in the north of England.)

The accountants can produce as many figures as they like to prove that there are financial reasons for closing it. But there are no economic reasons. Already the campaign to keep the line has inspired .   many new initiatives along its length. It is an asset only now being fully appreciated in every sense.