English For Banking: Cassette

"English for Banking" provides contextualised practice in the writing skills needed for day-to-day banking transactions in English - opening an account, dealing with an overdraft, arranging a meeting, writing and responding to a letter of complaint.

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This cassette provides practice in the various types of written English used in day-to-day banking transactions, with a cassette and written text. It presents listening material for selected units, covering meetings and interview techniques as an aid for teachers and learners alike to define the context within an imaginary country, whose details are established by the class. Each unit contains a variety of features: a) Introduction - a statement of content and purpose; b) Reading - a variety of text types; c) Analysis/Word Study/Grammar In Use - specific language features from reading text, eg. cohesion, lexis, style, meaning; d) Discussion - arising out of language production; e) Language practice - guided writing at sentence, paragraph and whole text level; f) Comprehension - more detailed reading of various texts. The glossary of business terms makes the material especially suitable for learners wityh limited understanding of the banking world.