Business English for Advanced Students III.

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- acquisition of theoretical knowledge of the characteristics and basic features of the English professional language.
- the student can characterise and identify the basic features of professional language in a text and knows the principles of the production of professional economic texts in theoretical and practical terms.
Competences:
- know the basic principles of the functioning of professional language,
- the student can use receptive and productive language skills at the required level,
- understands longer speeches and conversations; understands longer professional texts with a complex structure; can express himself/herself adequately on general and professional topics and formulate ideas and attitudes clearly,
- in writing, can produce clear, well-organized, and detailed text on complex professional economic topics, demonstrating mastery of compositional techniques, connective expressions, and means of cohesion,
- use flexibly and effectively the acquired linguistic knowledge, which is essential for the student's successful application in practice, for professional purposes.
Skills:
- apply the acquired skills in working with professional texts, e.g. seminar papers, final thesis, case studies,
- apply appropriate linguistic strategies related to the production of professional texts (use of appropriate lexical, stylistic, morphosyntactic devices) in the target language,
- acquiring the ability to consciously distinguish appropriate from inappropriate linguistic devices in professional economic communication (colloquial expressions, syntactically incomplete sentences, imprecise, ambivalent expressions, etc.).

Support literature

Walker, R., Harding, K. Tourism 3. Oxford: Oxford university press. 2011. ISBN 9780194551069
Strutt, P. English for International Tourism Upper-Intermediate. Pearson. 2003. ISBN: 9781447903666
Mol. H. English for Tourism and Hospitality. Reading: Garnet Publishing Ltd. 2008. ISBN 978 1 85954 942 8
Allison, J., Appleby, R., Chazal de, E. (2009) The Business Advanced. Oxford: Macmillan.
ISBN 978-0-230-02151-8
Baade, K., Holloway, Ch., Hughes, J., Scrivener, J., Turner, R. (2018) Business Results.
Advanced. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2nd edition. ISBN 978-0-19-473906-1.

Requirements to complete the course

Activity at seminars- 20 %
Presentation of a project – 30 %
The result of a written and oral exam -50 %

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: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 11.05.2022