Course detail
English for Business Communication 2
FP-AOP2Acad. year: 2014/2015
The course follows up on the course studied in the winter semester. The course is focused on general language as well as characteristic features of business communication at B2 level. It provides students with the relevant specialist language and professional communication skills they will need in the workplace.
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Course curriculum
2. U5 The human factor: Generalizations. Expressions with ‘time’.
3. U5 The human factor: Being assertive. Weighing alternatives.
4. U6 Nothing but the truth?: Past simple and past perfect.
5. U6 Nothing but the truth?: Truth and lies. Connotations. Phrasal verbs with ‘turn’.
6. U6 Nothing but the truth?: Compliments and responses. Breaches of trust.
7. U7 Finding fixes: Mixed conditionals.
8. U7 Finding fixes: Connectors.
9. U7 Finding fixes: Negotiating. Problem solving.
10. U8 Breaking news: Passives overview. Asking questions.
11. U8 Breaking news: TV programmes. Evolving English.
12. U8 Breaking news: Clarifying. Dealing with a problem.
13. Credit.
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
MASCULL, Bill. Business vocabulary in use: advanced. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-74940-4. (EN)
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. (EN)
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2. U13 Exchanging information – discussing problems.
3. U13 How to check someone understands. Advice and recommendation, too and enough.
4. U14 Processes.
5. U14 Socializing – planning future contact.
6. U14 How to get someone's attention. Passive forms.
7. U15 Performance. Personal qualities.
8. U15 Meetings – appraising performance and setting objectives.
9. U15 How to give feedback. Past continuous, past perfect.
10.U16 Success.
11.U16 Meetings – reporting.
12.U16 How to generalize. Contrasting language.
13.Credit test.