SYLLABUS ENGLISH FOR BANKING

MONEY MATTERS
Managing your finances
Function:
Explaining personal banking habits Using basic financial terms
Language:
Present simple
Vocabulary:
Personal banking
Finance and the economy
Function:
Discussing the economy
Language:
Present simple Revision
Vocabulary:
Opposites
Banks and building societies
Function:
Describing different types of financial organisations
Language:
Present simple with adverbs of frequency and time expressions Present continuous
Vocabulary:
Functions of financial institutions
Investment banks
Function:
Understanding how investment banks work
Language:
Articles
Vocabulary:
Investment banking
PRODUCTS IN RETAIL BANKING
Bank products
Function:
Finding out what a customer needs and giving advice
Language:
Modals for ability and possibility Making suggestions and
recommendations
Vocabulary:
Retail banking products
Online banking
Function:
Explaining online bank accounts to new customers
Language:
Future possibility and ability: will and be able to The imperative
Vocabulary:
Online banking
Telephone helplines
Function:
Giving and checking instructions
Language:
Sequencers Future forms: will, present continuous and be going to
Vocabulary:
Telephone helpline words
Comparing products
Function:
Comparing product details
Language:
Comparative and superlative adjectives
Vocabulary:
Product phrases

PERSONAL LOANS AND CREDIT
Credit and debit cards
Function:
Talking about credit
Language:
Zero conditional
Vocabulary:
Credit and debit cards
Plastic money
Function:
Agreeing and disagreeing politely
Language:
First conditional
Vocabulary:
Using credit cards
Personal loans and overdrafts
Function:
Asking for and giving information
Language:
Modals for obligation, necessity and prohibition
Vocabulary:
Borrowing money
Mortgages
Function:
Explaining terms of mortgages
Language:
Modals for possibility and permission
Vocabulary:
Mortgages
ISLAMIC BANKING
The basics of Islamic banking
Function:
Explaining the regulations of Islamic banking
Language:
Past simple
Vocabulary:
Word partnerships
Islamic retail products
Function:
Talking about past habits
Language:
Used to
Vocabulary:
Banking verbs
Islamic corporate banking products
Function:
Explaining different Islamic banking products
Language:
Past continuous
Vocabulary:
Islamic corporate banking terms
The concepts of Islamic banking
Function:
Comparing Islamic and non Islamic banking
Language:
Modals in the past
Vocabulary:
Background of Islamic banks

THE STRUCTURE OF A BANK
Departments
Function:
Describing the work in different departments of a bank
Language:
Prepositions
Vocabulary:
Verb-noun partnerships funds,
The structure of the bank
Function:
Talking about banking jobs, responsibilities and tasks Explaining the hierarchy in a bank
Language:
Gerunds and infinitives after verbs
Vocabulary:
Job titles and departments
Presentation skills
Function:
Giving a presentation
Language:
Future forms and past simple
Vocabulary:
Presentation words
The changing world of banking
Function:
Talking about change
Language:
Present perfect
Vocabulary:
Historic banking
FINANCE IN COMPANIES
Cash flow
Function:
Discussing cash flow issues
Language:
Quantifiers
Vocabulary:
Cash flow words
The balance sheet
Function:
Describing assets and liabilities
Language:
Passive forms
Vocabulary:
Large numbers
The income statement
Function:
Understanding an income statement
Language:
Modals of speculation
Vocabulary:
Mathematical formulas
The cash flow statement
Function:
Showing the cause of a problem and its effect
Language:
Cause and effect
Vocabulary:
Cash flow statement

CORPORATE BANKING
Taking care of corporate clients
Function:
Making suggestions to solve clients’ problems
Language:
Second conditional
Vocabulary:
Corporate products
Loans, credit lines and leasing
Function:
Discussing corporate product solutions
Language:
Second conditional with modals
Vocabulary:
Verb-noun partnerships
Company restructuring and loan modification
Function:
Formulating a loan modification strategy
Language:
Making suggestions and recommendations
Vocabulary:
Word partnerships
Bankruptcy
Function:
Discussing voluntary bankruptcy and legal proceedings
Language:
Past simple and present perfect
Vocabulary:
Debt
CENTRAL BANKS AND BANKING REGULATIONS
National and central banks
Function:
Talking about central banks and their functions
Language:
Gerund as subject and object
Vocabulary:
Central banking
Liquidity and the business cycle
Function:
Explaining the business cycle
Language:
Present perfect continuous
Vocabulary:
The business cycle and liquidity
Regulations
Function:
Discussing regulations and risk
Language:
Defining relative clauses
Vocabulary:
Regulations
Economic change
Function:
Describing graphs
Language:
Parts of speech
Vocabulary:
Adjectives and adverbs describing change