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Task 5: Clear up the meaning of the sentences. 

1. 

Nat West is a long term home for customer's money. 

2. 

In the past the banks failed to sell themselves as an automatic home 

for savings as far as personal customers are concerned. 

3. 

Tom Frost, General Manager of Nat West Emphasises the wide 

range of options which Net West offers the saver with a lump sum, and 

ways in which New technology will increase these options in this future. 

4. 

Easy access to cash is still a key selling point with any savings 

scheme 

 

Task 6: To sum up the text answer the test-self questions: 

1. What machines are mentioned as being currently used in banks to 

help customers withdraw-cash from their current accounts? 

2. What does the text suggest will be the next type of the machine and 

what will it enable customers to do? 

3. Why might the commercial banks be particularly keen to introduce 

new machines outside their branches to provide all sorts of banking ser-

vices which would be available at any time throughout the day or night? 

4. Why does Tom Frost believe that few people will think of a 

commercial bank as a place to put their savings?