商务英语 Unit 6 Banking 教材：新视野商务英语（下）

Unit 6 Banking  Objectives  Language focus  Skills  Business Communication  Key Vocabulary  Lead-in  writing  Reading  Homework

Objectives  When the learners finish learning this unit, they should be able to providing information on banking collecting information on banking

Warming up You are quite often to be asked to go to the bank. What to say? How to say? That is what we are going to practice in Unit 6. However, let’s try to work out what would be important information? Discuss.

Language focus  Figures and numbers  Transitive and intransitive verbs  Pronunciation: saying numerals, word recognition

Skill  Writing: rephrasing and exemplifying  Reading: investment and bank accounts  Listening: profit and loss accounts

Business Communication  Scale of probability

Key Vocabulary banking sector commercial bank clearing banks merchant bank individual rise and fall interest rate investors offshore bank accounts public company tax year annual report  multinational: companies which operate in a number of countries  subsidiaries: branches  in aspects: in all kinds of  offshore bank: foreign bank

Lead in  How much do you know about bank? 1.Why do public company publish annual report? 2.Who use the information in a profit and loss account? 3.Do the directors or the shareholders own the company?

Language Focus  due to : because of  integral: whole  pharmaceutical: of medicinal drug

Grammar  Transitive and intransitive Many verbs are followed by an object eg. improve something, pay something, raise something These are called transitive verbs They improve the working condition They paid our invoice. He raised the question of payment.

 Intransitive verbs do not take an object. E.g. fall, rise, arise Our profits are falling. Yesterday interest rates didn’t rise. How did the problem arise?

 Useful expressions: Who do you work for? Where are the headquarters? Where are you based? Do you have branches oversea? Talking about types of banking

The tips for business letter writing  brief ( state the aim at he very beginning),  clear ( what you expect or need in specific way),  polite (dear, Yours sincerely, and a neat form).

Reading  present a cheque: to pass a check from the receiver’s bank to the payer’s bank, for payment.  BACS: Banks Automated Clear Services.  surplus: extra  off-line: not connected to the Internet  dovetail: to fit together perfectly

Homework  listening to the tape after class.  reciting the new words and the text of key vocabulary.  writing a composition.