- •English for future Bankers and Financiers
- •Рецензенты:
- •Л.А. Коняева;
- •Т.И. Добрыдина
- •Content
- •Unit 1. Interbank Relations and financial market averages Part 1. Reading practice
- •1. Make up several sentences of your own using the vocabulary notes. Read them aloud for your group-mates and ask someone to translate.
- •2. Read and translate the dialogue.
- •4. Read and translate text a Text a
- •5. Answer the following questions based on text a:
- •6. Explain the following expressions:
- •9. Using the words in brackets, explain the meaning of the following terms:
- •10. Fill in the blanks with a proper word or phrase.
- •11. Read and translate Text b using a dictionary Text b
- •12. Answer the following questions based on text b:
- •13. Make up sentences of your own using the following expressions from text b.
- •14. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false sentences.
- •15. Match the following words with the correct definition from the list.
- •16. Look through the text and then fill the spaces with the words below. Translate the text into Russian.
- •Part 2. Speech practice
- •Situation 1
- •Situation 2
- •Brainstorming activity
- •Problem 2
- •Final discussion
- •Unit 2. Foreign Exchange Part 1. Reading Practice
- •Vocabulary notes
- •1. Make up several sentences of your own using the vocabulary notes. Read them aloud for your group-mates and ask someone to translate.
- •2. Read and translate the dialogue.
- •3. Answer the following questions based on the dialogue:
- •4. Read and translate Text a Text a
- •5. Answer the following questions based on text a:
- •6. Explain following expressions:
- •7. Choose the right answer:
- •8. For each of the following phrases find the expression in the text which it explains.
- •9. Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases.
- •10. Read and translate text b using a dictionary Text b
- •11. Answer the following questions based on text b:
- •12. Make up sentences of your own using the following expressions from text b.
- •13. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false sentences.
- •14. Using the words in brackets, explain the meaning of the following terms:
- •15. Match the following words with the correct definition from the list.
- •Part 2. Speech Practice
- •Situation 1
- •Situation 2
- •Brainstorming activity
- •Problem 2
- •Final discussion
- •Part 1. Reading Practice
- •1. Make up several sentences of your own using the vocabulary notes. Read them aloud for your group-mates and ask someone to translate.
- •2. Read and translate the dialogue.
- •3. Answer the following questions based on the dialogue:
- •4. Read and translate Text a Text a
- •5. Answer the following questions based on text a:
- •6. Explain following expressions:
- •7. Choose the right answer.
- •8. Complete the following sentences in English:
- •9. Read and translate Text b using a dictionary
- •10. Answer the following questions based on text b:
- •11. Make up sentences of your own using the following expressions from text b.
- •12. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false sentences.
- •13. Match the information in column a with the correspondent information in column b.
- •14. Using the words in brackets, explain the meaning of the following terms:
- •15. Look through the text and then fill the spaces with the words below. Translate the text into Russian.
- •Part 2. Speech Practice
- •Situation 1
- •Situation 2
- •Problem 2
- •Final discussion
- •Unit 4. The Global Money Market options. Futures Part 1. Reading Practice
- •1. Make up several sentences of your own using the vocabulary notes. Read them aloud for your group-mates and ask someone to translate.
- •2. Read and translate the dialogue
- •3. Answer the following questions based on the dialogue:
- •4. Read and translate Text a Text a
- •5. Answer the following questions based on Text a:
- •6. Using the words in brackets, explain the meaning of the following terms and phrases:
- •7. Match the information in column a with the correspondent information in column b.
- •8. Choose the word or phrase in brackets that would best substitute for the word or phrase in bold print in the following sentences:
- •9. Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases.
- •10. Read and translate Text b using a dictionary Text b
- •11. Answer the following questions based on text b.
- •12. Make up sentences of your own using the following expressions from text b.
- •13. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false sentences.
- •14. Complete the following sentences in English:
- •15. Match the following words with the correct definition from the list.
- •16. Look through these texts and then fill the spaces with the words below. Translate the text into Russian.
- •Part 2. Speech practice
- •Situation 1
- •Situation 2
- •Unit 5. Trading on the stock exchange floor Part 1. Reading Practice
- •1. Make up several sentences of your own using the vocabulary notes. Read them aloud for your group-mates and ask someone to translate.
- •2. Read and translate the dialogue
- •3. Answer the following questions based on the dialogue:
- •4. Read and translate Text a Text a
- •5. Answer the following questions based on text a:
- •7. Choose the word or phrase in brackets that would best substitute for the word or phrase in bold print in the following sentences.
- •9. Match the information in column a with the correspondent information in column b.
- •10. Read and translate Text b using a dictionary Text b
- •11. Answer the following questions based on text b:
- •12. Make up sentences of your own using the following expressions from text b.
- •13. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false sentences.
- •15. Using the words in brackets as a guide, explain the meaning of the following terms:
- •16. Match the following words with the correct definition from the list.
- •17. Look through these texts and then fill the spaces with the words below. Translate the text into Russian.
- •Part 2. Speech Practice
- •Situation 1
- •Brainstorming activity
- •Problem 2 (this problem requires creative approach to its solving)
- •Final discussion
- •Unit 6. Investment Risk and mutual funds Part 1. Reading practice
- •Vocabulary notes
- •1. Make up several sentences of your own using the vocabulary notes. Read them aloud for your group-mates and ask someone to translate.
- •2. Read and translate the dialogue
- •3. Answer the following questions based on the dialogue:
- •4. Read and translate Text a Text a
- •5. Answer the following questions based on text a:
- •6. Explain the following expressions.
- •7. Choose the right answer:
- •8. Using the words in brackets, explain the meaning of the following terms:
- •9. Choose the word or phrase in brackets that would best substitute for the word or phrase in bold print in the following sentences.
- •10. Read and translate Text b using a dictionary Text b
- •11. Answer the following questions based on Text b:
- •12. Match the information in column a with the correspondent information in column b.
- •13. Make up sentences of your own using the following expressions from text b.
- •14. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false sentences.
- •15. Match the following words with the correct definition from the list.
- •16. Look through these texts and then fill the spaces with the words below. Translate the texts into Russian.
- •Part 2 Speech Practice
- •Situation 1
- •Situation 2
- •Brainstorming activity Problem 1
- •Problem 2
- •Final discussion
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Part 2. Speech practice
Step 1. Study the following text about market averages.
Облигации обладают свойством обратимости, то есть с ними могут осуществляться операции по купле-продаже. Некоторые облигации обращаются на бирже, однако большинство сделок осуществляется на внебиржевом рынке.
Как и акции, облигации имеют номинальную стоимость (которая является фиксированной) и рыночную цену (которая меняется). Поскольку номинал, как предполагается, составляет для любой облигации 1000 долларов США (исключения бывают в редких случаях), котировка облигаций осуществляется в процентах от номинала: например, если облигация (1000 долларов США) продается по цене «97», это значит, что ее цена составляет 97 процентов от номинала, то есть 970 долларов США. Облигации могут продаваться по цене выше номинала — с надбавкой, или ниже номинала — со скидкой. Рыночная цена облигаций обычно зависит от их надежности (финансовой стабильности корпорации-эмитента) и от ставки процента. В первом случае очевидно, что, чем ниже надежность облигации, тем ниже ее рыночная стоимость. Во втором случае связь заключается в том, что с ростом ставки процента рыночная стоимость облигаций, выпущенных под более низкий по сравнению с текущей ставкой процент, снижается.
Важной характеристикой облигации как финансового инструмента является ее доходность. Доход по облигации может быть номинальным (по купонной ставке) и текущим (последний основан на текущей цене облигации). Большинство облигаций корпораций имеют «рейтинг». Он устанавливается независимыми фирмами. Наиболее распространенными являются рейтинги компаний «Стэндард энд Пурз» и «Мудиз».
Облигации, имеющие более высокий рейтинг, называются облигациями «инвестиционного класса». Те облигации, которые имеют более низкий рейтинг, считаются спекулятивными (в том числе так называемые бросовые облигации (junk bonds). Чем ниже рейтинг, тем выше риск неплатежа. В последнее время все чаще используются уточнения к рейтингу (« + » и « —»— по системе «Стэндард и Пурз» и «I» по системе «Мудиз»). В целом, чем выше рейтинг облигаций, тем ниже доход по ним.
Следует отметить, что в современной практике различия между акциями и облигациями корпораций постепенно стираются. С одной стороны, происходит узаконивание выпуска «неголосующих» акций, с другой—появились «голосующие» облигации. Стиранию этих различий способствует также эмиссия конвертируемых облигаций и выпуск так называемых гибридных фондовых бумаг (hybrid securities). Сближение акций и облигаций в определенной мере отражает тенденцию сближения (сращивания) промышленного и банковского капитала.
Step 2. Render the text in English using vocabulary notes.
Step 3. Role play the following situations. Use the information from the text.
Situation 1
Charles Dow. You are one of the earliest stock market theorists, and the founder of Dow Jones & Company, a leading financial news service and publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
Tom Brown. You are a prominent journalist, working in the Financial Times for a short period of time. Your task is to write an article about stock market averages. You organize a meeting with Mr. Dow and ask him such questions as:
- Are there any differences in pricing of bonds and shares? How is the quotation of bonds realized?
- What factors does the market price of bonds depend on? How can the price be changed under the influence of these factors?
- What are the most widely spread ratings of bonds?
- There is an opinion that in modern practice the differences between shares and bonds of corporations are gradually disappearing. How can Mr. Dow explain that? What forms does this process take?