Section В

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 485.

· Listen to the tape, practice the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations and quote the sentences in which they are used in the unit.

to quote smth. for smb.

the spot inter-bank price

to calculate with a dollar/mark rate of 2.3665

to need to add some tips

to credit one's DM account with a bank

to cover the account

to provide a foreign exchange service for smb

regular corporate clients

В1

· Look at the expressions and put a tick (ü) by the ones you might expect to hear in a telephone conversation concerning a foreign exchange deal and a cross (Ï) by those that you would not expect to hear.

1. In order to confirm the arrangements we made by telephone today, here are the terms and dates on which we agreed.

2. I'm fine thanks. How are you?

3. OK. Just let me get the two week price for you.

4. Hold on for a moment.

5. I can give you two dollars outright.

6. Please advise if 11.00 a.m. on the above date is convenient.

7. Why the dollar will rise again.

8. Nice to hear from you.

9. Just a second.

10. I sold you two million dollars against D marks.

11. Further to our recent telephone conversation, I am enclosing a copy of our tariffs, as requested.

12. Thanks a lot for the deal.

B2

· Alan King is calling Tove Strutz, the Cash Manager of a large Scandinavian insurance company. Listen to their conversation and answer these questions.

1. What time of the year does the conversation take place?

2. In this deal does Alan buy Deutschmarks from Tove or sell them to her?

3. What's the reason for Tove Strutz's telephone call to Alan King?

4. What price did Tove S. agree to buy Deutschmarks at?

5. Did Alan King add ten tips to the price for two million Deutschmarks?

6. What bank did Tove S. ask to credit his DM account with?

B3

· Listen to the telephone conversation again. As you do so, fill in the form below to show Tove's records of the transaction.

В4

· Look at the following expressions. Then listen to the telephone conversation again and write down the words or expressions that are used to mean the following:

1. Actually.

2. Meet each other.

3. Telephone me.

4. State our prices.

5. The price for a currency two working days from now.

6. The price for a currency two working days from now which one bank charges another bank.

7. An exchange rate of Swedish kronor against dollars.

8. The front surface of a computer or terminal on which information is shown.

9. Thousandths of a percentage point.

10. Wait a moment.

11. Available in your account on (date).

12. I agree that we have made a deal.

13. Pay the funds into.

14. Pay the corresponding funds into.

B5

· You are going to hear eight sentences which you might hear in a telephone conversation. Respond to them with one of the sentences shown below.

A. OK. Thanks for calling. Bye now.

В. Yes, that would be nice.

С. Fine thanks. And you?

D. Yes, OK. In a couple of weeks, then.

E. Let me think. As a matter of fact there is, yes.

F. Very well, thanks.

G. Yes, that's fine.

H. For how much?

Note that not all of these responses actually occur in the section. Some are alternatives which could have been used instead of what was said.

B6

· The speakers in this unit all use numbers fluently in their everyday work. But it can sometimes be difficult to know how to say things which we often see written. How would you say the following?

1.

2.

3.

4. 600, 541

5. 2,000,000 dollars

6. 7.3980

7. 2.6028 ÷ 0.0037=2.5991

8. 500,000 10.64=5,320,000

9. 240÷2 =96

10. 12