Business English for Advanced Students I.
- Credits: 3
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 0P + 2C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
To know the basic principles of professional language.
Skills:
The student can use receptive and productive language skills at the required level. He/she understands longer speeches, conversations, a longer professional text with a complex structure. The student can adequately comment on general and professional topics and formulate ideas and attitudes. In written communication, he/she can create clear, well-organized, and detailed text on complex topics, demonstrating mastery of compositional techniques, conjunctions, and means of cohesion.
Competences:
To use flexibly and effectively acquired language skills, which are necessary for successful student´s application in practice and social, academic, or professional purposes.
Indicative content
1. Communication in the workplace
2. Marketing
3. Networking
4. Relationships in the workplace
5. Success
6. Case study
Support literature
1. COTTON, D. - FALVEY, D. - KENT, S. 2012. Market Leader Upper Intermediate. Course Book. 3. vydanie. Harlov : Pearson Education Limited, 2012. 175 s. ISBN 978-1-4082-3709-0.
Syllabus
Seminars: 1. Internal and external communication in business (e-mail) 2. Resolving communication failures 3. Trends in the development of the current economy 4. Marketing 5. International Marketing (compound noun) 6. World brands 7. Company 8. Brainstorming 9. Building workplace relationships (phrasal verbs) 10. Negotiations 11. Networking 12. Success (suffixes, past and present tense) 13. Case study solution
Requirements to complete the course
• activity at seminars - 20 %
• assessment of homework -20 %
• the result of a final written test - 60 %
Student workload
• participation in seminars - 26 hours
• preparation for seminars - 26 hours
• preparation for the exam - 26 hours
Total: 78 hours
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak, English
Date of approval: 07.03.2024
Date of the latest change: 24.01.2022