Business English for Intermediate Students III.
- Credits: 3
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Commerce
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
To understand extended speech and lectures, to be able to read articles and reports and understand the main points in general and business texts, to be able to communicate on the adequate level, to be able to write texts on a wide range of subjects.
Indicative content
1. Free trade
2. International markets
3. Ethics in business environment
4. Management
5. Effective managerial styles
6. Competition
Support literature
Whitby, N.: Business Benchmark Pre-intermediate to intermediate. Cambridge University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-69399-9
Robbins, S.: First Insights into Business. Pearson Education Limited, 2000
Syllabus
1. Free trade. Trade barriers 2. Advantages and disadvantages of free trade for national economies. Conditional clauses. The first and second conditional 3. Negotiating. Strategies of negotiating with foreign partners 4. Ethics in business environment 5. Ethics in writing. Adhering to ethical principles when writing CVs 6. Case study. Past and past perfect tense 7. Management. Inborn and acquired prerequisites for managerial work. Qualities of a successful manager 8. Different managerial styles. Relative pronouns 9. Presentation. Structuring presentation 10. Competition in business environment 11. Market structure. Passive verb forms. 12. Negotiating 13. Final test
Requirements to complete the course
Activity at seminars -20%
Assessment of homework assignments -10%
Results of a final written test and oral exam- 70%
Student workload
78h:
26 h participation at seminars
26 h preparation for seminars
26 h preparation for exam
Language whose command is required to complete the course
English
Date of approval: 14.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 11.05.2022