English

3

Not applicable.

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.

Good knowledge of general language at pre-intermediate level as minimum. Knowledge of professional language structures and vocabulary corresponding to the course Business English 1.

Not applicable.

The course it taught by means of language lessons focused on practicing language skills and developing vocabulary. It includes also individual work of students.

Assessment consists of the following parts:

An examination: written test, listening and reading.

1 U8: Human resources – Job interviews, Expressions for talking about job applications,
2 U8: Human resources – Infinitives and -ing forms, Getting information on the telephone
3 U9: International markets – Development of international markets, Words and expressions for talking about free trade
4 U9: International markets – Conditionals, Negotiating
5 Revision
6 U10: Ethics – Ethics at work, Words to describe illegal activity or unethical behaviour
7 U10: Ethics – Narrative tenses, Considering options
8 U11: Leadership – Qualities of good relationship, Words to describe character
9 U11: Leadership – Relative clauses, Presenting
10 U12: Competition , Idioms from sport to describe competition
11 U12: Competition – Passives, Negotiating
12 Revision
13 Credit test

Not applicable.

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.

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

Not applicable.

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COTTON, David, David FALVEY, Simon KENT, Bill MASCULL a John ROGERS. Market leader: intermediate: business English. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4082-3695-6.

MASCULL, B.: Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate, CUP 2010
MURPHY, Raymond. 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.
MANN, Malcolm a Steve TAYLORE-KNOWLES. Destination B1: grammar and vocabulary : [with answer key]. Oxford: Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 9780230035362. (EN)

12 hours, optionally