D) Make your own sentences with any five word combinations from (b) and (c).

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Ex.3. Work on vocabulary and grammar.

EXERCISES

Ex.1. Answer these questions:

A. 1. What services do banks offer?

2. What is the nature of banking? How do banks earn a living?

3. Do commercial banks play a very important role in an economy?

4. What are the more recent developments in banking?

5. What banking policy can guarantee stability?

B. 1. What can prove the substantial progress made by the bank?

2. What can the success of the bank be attributed to?

3. What does the bank specialise in?

4. Are customers' service requirements changing? What are they now?

5. How does the bank respond to these changes?

6. Why and how was the bank restructured?

7. What is the biggest challenge for the bank at the moment?

Ex.2. Give derivatives of:

definition n advance n competition n contract n

accept v intermediary n activity n substantiate v

lend v deposit n collect v progress n

borrow v acquire v commitment n withdrawal n

a) Study the key words of the unit in the dictionary at the back of this book:

credit, loan, account, interest, bill check, maturity, deposit;

b) Think of the verbs that are most commonly used with:

loan, bank, check, interest, bill, money, deposit, payment, service;

c) Think of the nouns that are most commonly used with:

to pay, to charge, to improve, to increase, to offer, to achieve, to expand, to provide;

e) Match the verbs from (a) with the nouns from (b) below:

a) to discount b) needs

to accept expertise

to provide bill

to issue travellers' cheques

to achieve service

to pay profit

to acquire letter of credit

to withdraw interest rate

to satisfy deposits

to meet money

to grant loans

to open demand