TEACHING BUSINESS LETTER VOCABULARY IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The paper is devoted to vocabulary teaching of business correspondence as a substyle of official-business documents. Business letter writing is an important part of Business English Course in Faculty of Economics. As part of learning process a number of exercises are used to enrich business vocabulary, to develop skills of commercial letter writing and to raise teaching efficiency. Business letter writing requires profound knowledge of business terms, clichés, grammatical and semantic structures. The proposed exercises are based on semantic, word-formation and syntagmatic peculiarities of business vocabulary and promote acquisition of both theoretical and practical skills of business correspondence.