Banking English – Syllabus

Syllabus

Banking English: Its Goal

A risk-free on-the-job on-boarding by

• Gaining in listening and in reading comprehension on industry topics.
• Studying some vocabulary.
• Studying some key grammatical points.

The Methodology

This Banking English class emerges students in a 100% English-speaking environment. It aims at preparing students for a business world where English is ubiquitous. To achieve this goal, this class offers to improve students' ability to understand everyday written and spoken business English.
The class uses text and audio documents. Documents come from the international press, as well as from universities and international organizations.
The class also brushes on grammar basics. Reviewing essential grammar points helps level students and prepare for TOEIC.
Helping students prepare for the TOEIC exam is a bonus of the class. This is achieved by providing students with online exercises and explaining the methodology to sealing with TOEIC. Applying the methodology, students train to remain focused throughout the exercise. The TOEIC preparation will be achieved through at home TOEIC quizzes and in class listening and reading comprehension exercises.

Banking English Evaluation:

Students will receive four grades for a total of 100% of 20. The breakdown of grading is as follows:
-50%: the grade received from their TOEIC test (done outside the classroom).
-30%: an individual Final Exam. This will be a reading/listening comprehension style exam, with some vocabulary questions, some grammar questions, and a short essay.
-10%: Online grammar exercises (only exercises done outside of the classroom will be taken into account, students need to achieve a minimum grade of 15/20 for the quiz to be valid. Students need to complete at least 10 quizzes).
-10%: Online reading/listening comprehension quizzes (only exercises done outside of the classroom will be taken into account).

Who is this course for?

Young managers willing to join the banking industry.

Further reading and listening:

To improve your banking English vocabulary, read and listen to articles and podcasts from:

• The Wall Street Journal: http://wsj.com
• National Public Radio podcasts: https://www.npr.org
• The International Monetary Fund podcasts: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Podcasts/All-Podcasts/
• The Singapore Management University: https://soundcloud.com/sgsmu