Língua Inglesa
Técnicas de Escrita
Índice
Objetivos.................................................................................................................... 3
Conteúdos.................................................................................................................. 3
Writing e-mails........................................................................................................... 4
Dates........................................................................................................................................4
Time..........................................................................................................................................5
E-mail addresses and websites..................................................................................6
Business letters.......................................................................................................... 9
Money...................................................................................................................... 10
Finance...................................................................................................................................11
Bookkeeping............................................................................................................ 13
Banks....................................................................................................................... 14
Grammar.................................................................................................................. 14
Prepositions............................................................................................................................14
Referências Bibliográficas........................................................................................16
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Objetivos
Aplicar as técnicas de elaboração de documentos comerciais à língua inglesa
Conteúdos
Documentos comerciais em língua inglesa
o Documentos comerciais e contabilísticos
o Documentos bancários
o Frases comerciais tipo
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Writing e-mails
In a company writing e-mails is part of the daily routine to place orders, answer to clients, to
book meetings, etc.
Here are some items that worth having in mind while writing them:
Dates
You write You say
Monday, 18 August (specially UK) Monday, the eighteenth of August
Monday, August 18 (US) Monday, August (the) eighteenth
2011 Two thousand and eleven or twenty
eleven
2/11/2011 (UK) The second of November, two thousand
and eleven or twenty eleven
11/2/2011 (US) November, the second, two thousand
and eleven or twenty eleven
October 3rd (US) October (the) third
3rd October (UK) The third of October
In British English you usually write and say the dates like this: day/month/year.
In American English you usually write and say the dates like this: month/day/year.
1. Write the following dates the way you say them, both in British and American
English:
a) 2003/07/01
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b) 1979/03/14
c) 1956/02/25
d) 1999/08/02
e) 2000/04/03
f) 2001/11/24
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Time
The time is… You say
09:15 Nine fifteen OR quarter past nine OR quarter after nine (US)
10:00 Ten o’clock (in the morning) OR ten am
22:00 (UK) Ten o’clock (in the evening) OR ten pm
11:30 Eleven thirty OR half past eleven
14:40 Fourteen forty (UK) OR two forty in the afternoon OR twenty to
three
16:20 Sixteen twenty OR twenty past four (in the afternoon) OR
twenty after four (in the afternoon)
16:21 Sixteen twenty-one OR twenty-one minutes past four
15:00 Fifteen hundred (hours) OR three o’clock (in the afternoon)
17:45 Seventeen forty-five OR quarter to six
1.5 hours Ninety minutes OR one and a half hours OR an hour and a half
15 minutes Fifteen minutes OR quarter of an hour
30 minutes Thirty minutes OR half an hour
45 minutes Forty-five minutes OR three quarters of an hour
In American English you don’t use the 24-hour clock: for example, 22:00 is 10 pm and 10:00 is
10 am.
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In British English you use the 24-hour clock mainly to talk about train and flight times. The
24- hour clock is rarely used in American English.
2. Match the words to its definitions:
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E-mail addresses and websites
Here are some phrases that can be used in e-mail to:
Ask for information
Give information
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Ask for help
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mail
Sign an e-
help
Make suggestions and offer
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Send an out-of-office message
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3. Write the body of an e-mail offering your company’s services:
From:
To:
CC:
BCC:
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Business letters
Here you a have a guide for writing business letters and some basic expressions:
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4. Complete the sentences with the words given:
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Money
Read the text and answer the questions:
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5. Match the words to the definitions:
Finance
Read the following text and complete the tasks:
6. Match the words with the definitions:
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answer:
7. Choose the correct
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Bookkeeping
Read and do the tasks:
8. Choose the correct answer:
9. Match the word with the definition:
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Banks
Read and do the tasks:
10. Choose the correct answer:
11. Match the words with the definitions:
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Grammar
Prepositions
Prepositions are essential to sentences because they provide additional and necessary details.
Prepositions are words that introduce information to the reader.
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English Usage
from who gave it
of who/what does it belong to
what does it show
by who made it, around
rise or fall of
something
on walking or riding on horseback
entering a public transport
vehicle
in entering a car / Taxi
off leaving a public transport vehicle
out of leaving
at for age, specific things
about for topics, meaning what about
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Referências Bibliográficas
SCHOFIELD, J., English for Work – Workplace English, Collins, 2012.
TAYLOR, J. and PELTIER, S., Carrer Paths – Accounting, Express Publishing, 2011.
TAYLOR, J. and ZETER, J., Carrer Paths – Business English, Express Publishing,
2011.
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