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The BANK / La BANQUE

 

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Interactive games - Jokes - Cartoons - Videos - Cinema - Songs

(Updated on 25/02/2013)

 

 


Related pages :

Money (Vocabulary and Activities) - Money (Civilization)

 

 

Vocabulary :

  • Bank - words + explanations - advanced
    (syvum.com)
  • bailout
    = "financial assistance given to an insured bank or savings institution suffering a loss of earnings resulting from loan losses, deteriorating market conditions..."
    (allbusiness.com)

    Bailout - a cartoon
    (blackcommentator.com)

 

Cliparts :

   

 

A bank robber
(illustrationsof.com)

 

 

A bank - vocabulary
(waze.net)

 
A cashier
(inmagine.com)

Bank teller
(clipartguide.com)



Facts :

 

  • BANK ROBBERY :

    Bank robbers dressed as nuns
    "Authorities in Illinois said a former bank employee and an accomplice robbed the facility of $120,000 while dressed in nun costumes."
    They wore nun costumes and "Nun on the Run adult masks".
    (upi.com)
    The masks were "similar to the one(s) featured in the hit film "The Town", which tells the story of a group of bank robbers in Boston
    who allude police and authorities by wearing nun costumes."
     (All Headline News)

 

  • California's 'Geezer Bandit' strike for the 13th time
    "An 'elderly' thief, who is nicknamed the 'Geezer Bandit', is being hunted by police in California after he pulled off his thirteenth bank robbery."
    (telegraph.co.uk)
    VOCABULARY :
    - to hunt / to elude / to rob / to threaten / to disclose / to escape
    - thief / bank robbery / branch / cashier / investigator / witness / reward / arrest / CCTV footage / pistol / raid / outfit / disguise

 

  • Mumbling, fumbling, bumbling robber fails twice
    "Communication skills were clearly lacking in a woman who police said tried to rob two Memphis credit unions. She fled empty-handed both times."
    (newsvine.com)
    VOCABULARY :
    to mumble = marmonner
    to fumble (handle clumsily) = fouiller
    to bumble = cafouiller (parler bizarrement)

 

  • Bank Street - interactive
    "The global banking industry is almost unrecognisable from 12 months ago...
    Take a walk down Bank Street and follow the fortunes of some of the world’s largest banks as they navigate the global financial crisis.
    Hit play and then click on a building to learn more."
    (ft.com)

     

  • Tax havens to ease bank secrecy - A text and an audio report
    "Amid growing pressure over tax evasion and money laundering, two small European states, Liechtenstein and Andorra, have agreed
    to ease strict bank secrecy rules."
    + Vocabulary explained
    (BBC)

 

  • Muhammad Yunus - "Banker of the poor" - Nobel Peace Prize 2006
    (Wikipedia)

 

 

Listening :

 

 

ROLE-PLAY :

  • Banking role-play - Banking lesson (bogglesworldesl.com)

    Materials:
    "4 Vocabulary Handouts, Client Role Cards, Financial Product Brochures, Banker Activity Sheet, and Client Activity Sheet."

    Purpose :
    "The purpose of these materials is to get the students speaking about all of the terms related to their personal finances in English..."

 

 

INTERACTIVE exercises :

  • Banking and Business Abbreviations - (about.com)
    "Use the following drop-down list to test your knowledge or access meanings of common banking and business abbreviations."

 

Lesson plans :

  • Banks: From Savings Accounts to Certificates of Deposit
    Listen and Read | Vocabulary Exercise | Discussion
    Role Play | Online Investigation | Other Online Listening Practice
    (dailyesl.com)

  • Bank error makes customers millionaires - a lesson plan
    WARM-UPS : Mistakes
    (breakingnewsenglish.com)

 

  • Two Major Financial Scandals - a lesson plan
    (onestopenglish.com)

  • Competency:  Understand Banks and the Services They Provide (nc-net.info)
    "Students will learn vocabulary associated with banks while learning about the services that a bank provides

    This lesson plan includes:

    1. Understand Banks Vocabulary
    2. Understand Banks Vocabulary Matching
    3. Understand Banks Fill-in-the-Blank
    4. Understand Banks Fill-in-the-Blank (Answer Key)
    5. Understand Banks Conversation (Listening Activity 1-4)
    6. Understand Banks Conversation (Answer Key)
    7. Bank Services Brochure (optional activity)
    8. Bank Brochure Reading Comprehension Sheet (optional)
    9. Understand Banks Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Game (optional activity)
    10. Understand Banks Vocabulary Flash Cards
    11. Referenced text and materials
  • Unit 22: International Banking and the World Bank : Text / Dialog / Exercises - A télécharger (lapasserelle.com)
    "Cliquez sur les expressions soulignées pour lire les explications s'y rapportant et les entendre."
  • Unit 9: Banking and the Fed : Text / Dialog / Exercises (lapasserelle.com)
    "Cliquez sur les expressions soulignées pour lire les explications s'y rapportant et les entendre."

 

 

 

INTERACTIVE games :

 

  • Money
    Useful Vocabulary - Build Up - Dialogue - Interactive Games and Tests
    (learnenglish.de)

 

 

Jokes :

 

 

Cartoons : (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.)

 

Bailout
(blackcommentator.com)

 

 

 

Videos :

 

 

Cinema :

 

 

 

Songs :

  • RY COODER - "No Banker Left Behind"
    "My telephone rang one evening, my buddy called for me
    Said the bankers are all leavin', you better come round and see
    It started revelation, they robbed the nation blind,
    They're all down at the station, no banker left behind..."
    (oldielyrics.com)

 

  • Bet against the American dream! - a song with the lyrics
    "L'émission This American Life, du réseau public américain NPR, a mis en ligne une chanson pédagogique et rigolote sur les scandales financiers où les banques ont parié, et gagné, sur l'échec de leurs propres produits financiers (en anglais). Ils ont, disent les chanteurs, « parié contre le rêve américain »."
    (rue89.com)
    NPR = National Public Radio
    CDO = Collateralized Debt Obligation     (See Wikipedia)