Course detail

Business English 1

FP-HA1PZAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course follows up on language studied at the secondary school. It requires good knowledge of general language at pre-intermediate level as minimum. The course is focused on characteristic features of business professional communication at B1 level. It provides students with the relevant specialist language and professional communication skills they will need in the workplace.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course is intended to deepen the student’s language skills necessary for professional communication using relevant vocabulary. It will familiarise the students with basic economic terminology and enable them to understand professional economic texts.

Prerequisites

Good level of English at pre-intermediate level as minimum. Grammar: Nouns – articles, countable and uncountable nouns, expressing quantity; adjectives and adverbs – comparative and superlative, comparison; pronouns – personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite; numerals – cardinal, ordinal; prepositions – local and time expressions; verbs – present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, future – simple, continuous, other expressions of future (going to, present continuous), past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, modal verbs, question forms, negative, short answers, passive and active voice, imperative, conditional, gerund; sentence – word order, there is/there are, question forms, complex and compound sentence – time clauses, conditionals, using of infinitive. Vocabulary: socializing, personal data, school, job, daily routine, leisure time, family, food and drinks, shopping, travelling, clothing, housing, health, public services (post, bank, authorities), environment, weather.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course it taught by means of language lessons focused on practicing language skills and developing vocabulary.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Assessment consists of the following parts:
Credit: active participation in lessons, a credit test
An examination: listening and reading.

Course curriculum

1 U1: Brands – Favourite brands, Building brand, Words that go with brand, product and market
2 U1: Brands – Present Simple and Present Continuous, Taking part in meetings
3 U2: Travel – Travel Experiences, A hotel chain, What business travellers want, British and American Travel words
4 U2: Travel – Future, Telephoning: making arrangements.
5 U3: Past Simple and Present Perfect. Revision
6 U4: Organisation – Status within an organisation, A successful organisation, Words and expressions that describe company structure
7 U4: Organisation – Noun combinations, Socialising: introductions and networking
8 U5: Advertising – Authentic advertisements, A new kind of campaign, Words and expressions for talking about advertising
9 U5: Advertising – Articles, Starting and structuring a presentation
10 U6: Money – Attitudes to money, Investments, Words for talking about finance
11 U6: Money – Describing trends, Dealing with figures
12 Revision
13 Credit test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with language skills used in professional communication (reading, listening, speaking, writing), and provide them with basic terminology and specific structures of professional language.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Students’ participation and their work in the exercises are systematically controlled. Absence may be compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

COTTON, D.; FALVEY, D.; KENT, S.; MASCULL, B.; ROGERS, J. Market leader: intermediate: business English. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4082-3695-6. (EN)

Recommended reading

MASCULL, B.: Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate, CUP 2010 (EN)
MURPHY, R. English grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate learners of English: with answers. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2012, x, 380 s. ISBN 9780521189064. (EN)
MANN, Malcolm a Steve TAYLORE-KNOWLES. Destination B1: grammar and vocabulary : [with answer key]. Oxford: Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 9780230035362. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK Bachelor's

    branch BAK-UAD , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
    branch BAK-EP , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
    branch BAK-EPM , 1. year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit