SOME WAYS OF USING A LEXICAL APPROACH WHILE TEACHING BUSINESS ENGLISH

The article considers the implementation of the lexical approach in teaching Business English. It is placed at the centre of the syllabus. The functional language of business has been also analyzed. It is stressed that the lexical syllabus develops students' ability to identify the chunks of language. While teaching Business Eng- lish students should try to combine the words into word partnerships they don't know. To do this successfully we offer using such self-study and class-based activities which employ sorting, matching, identifying and describ- ing, e.g. language puzzles or collocation dominoes