Outline Program Of English For Finance.docx

OUTLINE PROGRAM OF ENGLISH FOR FINANCE A FORTY-HOUR PROGRAM, 20 SESSIONS @ 2 HOURS SESSION

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CAREER SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Unit Professional Web quest skills Unit 1 First Researching Choosing impression Financial Job employers

Writing

LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE Language spot Vocabulary

Reasons for going into finance

What can you expect from career in banking?

Presenting your skills to an employer

A covering letters

The Banking Code

Which services do you use?

Who is better at managing money, men or women?

Financial check-up

Email: customer complaints

How the big banks use outsourcing

Scheduling appointment A finance department and its service providers Presenting figures

Outsourcing financial services

Making request Controlling business expenses

A memo

Requests and offers Modals of obligations and permission

A report

Describing change and cause

Describing trends 1 Describing trends 2

An internal report

Predictions: probability

The economic cycle

4-5

Unit 2 Personal Finance

6-7

Unit 3 Company Financial Services

8-9

Unit 4 Economic Indicators

Tips for presentation

Investing in emerging market

Unit 5 Economic Cycle

How to behave in meeting

The IMF and the world bank

10 11-12

Customer relationship management

Listening

LANGUAGE SKILLS Reading Speaking

The Great Depression

Interpreting Presenting data data Life in modern Explaining Britain trends and An analyst’s their causes report: Kazakhstan MID-TERM TEST Managing the Recessions world and recovery Economy Expressing Who controls and the economy responding to today opinions

Questions types with Present simple and present continuous Suggestions and advice

Describing a job

What can you do with these services? Talking about customer services Phrasal verbs with office tasks

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15-16

17-18

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Unit 6 Economic Sectors Unit 7 Banking

Unit 8 Stock Market

Selling on the telephone

Investment strategies

Regional development agencies Researching a bank

Investment decision Types of banks in UK

Researching a share’s performance

Why do market stock move?

Competing in the global economy An organization chart for a bank Stock markets

The road to development Checking, clarifying, reformulating, Commercial lending News briefings

FINAL TEST I: WRITTEN TEST FINAL TEST 2: ORAL TEST

Reports: comparing options A bank profile

Contrasting opinion

Industries and sectors

Verb patterns

Banks and their products

An analyst’s report

Describing consequences

Reading the financial press