- •Post-office / telephone / bank topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •1. Using the dictionary find the word in each column with the more general meaning.
- •2. Give as many word-combinations with the key words code, call, box, account, exchange you can.
- •3. Fill in the missing word from the box.
- •6. Study the meaning of some special calls (b) by matching them with their definitions (a).
- •7. Translate the sentences illustrating the use of the synonyms. To call, to phone, to ring (up), to connect
- •To change, to exchange, to alter
- •8. Fill in prepositions where necessary.
- •9. Give English (a) and Russian (b) equivalents for the following.
- •10. Answer the questions:
- •11. Learn the meaning of the terms connected with bank and money operations.
- •12. Express in one word.
- •At the post-office
- •1. Read the text and tell the class about your last visit to the post-office. You wanted to pay rental services / to send a greeting telegram / some books / a parcel by post. At the Post-office
- •2. Read these dialogues between a postal clerk and a customer.
- •4. Recommend an Englishman where it's better to go if he needs some postal services in Minsk and how to make arrangements with the local post-office to have his mail forwarded.
- •5. Practise short conversations based on the following statements.
- •7. Read the text and say what new you have learned about the postal industry in Belarus.
- •9. Answer the following questions.
- •10. Read the text and trace the changes that have taken place in the history of post. Make a detailed plan or formulate some questions for discussion. Postal service in the Past
- •11. Summarize the main idea of the text in eight-ten sentences.
- •12. Study the list of the sentences which have been removed, decide what sentence was in each gap.
- •Telegram
- •13. Read the texts and say which of the described banking services you usually apply for. Do you need a bank if you go abroad?
- •Autobanks
- •18. Read the text again. Find a paragraph which:
- •19. Which of these users of cash machines are not mentioned in the paragraph?
- •20. Read the text about money and develop your linguistic and cultural competence in his area. Say, what new have you learned about money in Britain and America. Money
- •21. Discuss with your partner in a form of dialogue.
- •22. Getting a bank loan.
- •Telephone
- •23. Make sure that you know the meanings of all the words.
- •24. Choose the best word or words.
- •25. Read this text and explain your partner how to use a private and public telephone.
- •26. Act out the dialogue with another student explaining how to make international calls.
- •27. Read the model microdialogues and use the typical phrases when telephoning your friend colleagues, acquaintances.
- •28. Here is the beginning of a telephone conversation between two people who don't know each other. Put it in the right order.
- •29. Here is the end of a telephone conversation between two workmates Andy and Barry. Put it in the right order.
- •30. Answer the following questions on the previous dialogue.
- •31. Make dialogues considering the following situations:
- •32. When do you say or hear:
- •34. Practise using the telephone to ring to:
- •35. While making calls (official and unofficial) mind the following telephone etiquette and good manners.
- •36. In pairs roleplay each of the following calls. You may use one of the purposes given for the call or make up one of your own.
Post-office / telephone / bank topical vocabulary
At the Post-office
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telegram / cable / wire, n express / regular / reply ~ letter, n local / out of town / foreign ~ registed / insured / restante ~ official / personal ~ air-letter/aerogram ~ postcard, n plain / illustrated ~ stamp, n stick /paste ~ envelope, n (un) stamped ~ message, n parcel, n package, n insure ~ money order mail, n forward the ~ ~ a package |
post, v send, v sender, n addressee, n deliver, v by recorded delivery pay telephone rental pay electricity bills cash a money order form, n fill in, v sign, v post-box, n pillar-box, n letter-box, n drop a letter into ~ slot machine receipt, n index number fax, n telex, n |
How much is a letter to ... ? What's the weight limit? I'd like to have a return receipt.
Types of mail
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first class second class third class book rate |
certified, a registered, a regular, a valuable, a |
special delivery air mail E-mail, n snail-mail, n |
Postal services
delivery of letters / parcels
selling of postage stamps
payment of weekly pensions / license
wrapping and packing service
public / fax / E-mail / telephone service
Postal windows
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Money Orders Poste Restante Stamps, Postcards, Stamped Envelopes Registered Letters |
Air Mail Book Post Parcel Post
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Telephoning
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telephone, n office / public / private ~ mobile / cordless ~ call, n ordinary / urgent / emergency ~ local / trunk / overseas ~ give / make / accept ~ call, v phone, v ring (up), v ring back, v connect, v disconnect, v dial, v leave the message tone, n dialling ~ ringing ~ engaged ~ number unobtainable ~ |
receiver, n call-box, n phone booth phone number extension, n phone book directory enquiries area code hang on, v hold the line buzzing, n be engaged be on the phone be available telephone directory telephone book answering machine walkie-talkie, n |
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD), an automatic system which allows you to make trunk (long distance) call easily and cheaply. Cheap time call - you get the largest discount after 11 p.m. at night and on weekends.
Telephone services in Britain: numbers to dial
100 - Operator: she will help you connect the call if you can't do it yourself.
192 - Directory Enquires: if you're looking for a number.
8081 - Speaking Clock: it will tell you the time (this number may be different in different towns).
999 - Emergencies: if you want to call Fire Brigade, Police or Ambulance.
At the Bank
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change, v exchange, v, n ~ office ~ rate cash money / cheque cheque, n endorse the ~ in traveller's ~ in cash charge, n pay a~ credit, n ~ card bank book passbook, n deposit, n loan, n
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account, n current ~ savings ~ deposit ~ joint ~ open an ~ put money on an ~ withdraw money from one's ~ deposit one's money make a deposit apply for a loan take out a loan / mortgage handle one's money tax, n sales ~ income ~ commission, n
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Do you have an account with this bank? What's your savings account number?
Money
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dollar ($), n cent (c), n pound sterling (£), n penny (p), n mark (DM), n franc, n currency, n hard ~ eurocurrency, n paper money banknote, n coin, n |
run out of money be out of money / cash be short of money be hard up have a money problem earn money make money borrow money (from) lend money invest money deposit money
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What's the rate of exchange for a DM, please?
Eurocurrency - евровалюта; валюта различных стран, находящаяся на депозитах в европейских банках и используемая на европейском финансовом рынке. Термин синонимичен термину Euromoney (евроденьги).