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PREFACE
―Financial and business English ‖ is B2 level English manual for students of
finance and business English in Higher Education. It aims to help these students to
extend and develop a wide variety of language skills and to acquire a knowledge
of business in English. Reach selection of motivating and informative,
authentic
and semi-authentic texts to improve both reading and listening skills with variety
topics are presented in themed topics. Interactive activities focus on learners‘ ―can
do‖ statements and follow the principles of the Common European Framework of
Reference requirements.
The material in ―Financial and business English‖ is based on skills development
and communicative tasks. The book consists of 18 topical lessons and each lesson
starts with colorful lead-in activity shifting students‘ focus on the topic. Lead-in
activity followed
by listening and speaking, reading and writing activities
respectively.
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The
reading
texts are mostly authentic or adapted from original sources -
specialist
magazines, computer programs, reference manuals and websites. The
tasks are designed to develop a variety of reading strategies, such as skimming,
scanning, matching texts to pictures, etc.
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The
listening
passages
include conversations, interviews, online tutorials,
podcasts,
lectures, etc. It can be helpful to start the listening tasks with a pre-
listening activity, such as pre-teaching vocabulary, 'brainstorming'
the topic, etc.
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The