Course detail
Professional English 1
FP-PA1Acad. year: 2019/2020
The course focuses on characteristic features of professional business communication. It provides students with the relevant specialist language and professional communication skills they will need in the workplace. The course provides preparation for Business English examinations at B2 level.
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Exam: listening, reading
Course curriculum
2 U1: E-mail: For and Against, Idioms, The Price of Success
3 U2: Marketing Word Partnerships, Italian Luxury, How to Market Internationally
4 U2: Noun Compounds and Noun Phrases, Creating a Global Brand
5 U4: Prefixes, Successful Businesses,
6 U4: Carlos Slim, Present and Past Tenses
7 U5: Synonyms and Word-building, Staff Motivation,
8 U5: Working for the Best Companies, Passives
9 U5: Passives, Just Good Friends?
10 U6: Describing Risk, Managing Risks,
11 U6: Insuring Trade Risks, Adverbs of Degree
12 U6: Winton Carter Mining, Revision
13 Credit Test
Work placements
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
MASCULL, B: Business Vocabuary in Use Advanced, CUP 2010 (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)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR Master's
branch MGR-PFO , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch MGR-UFRP-D , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
branch MGR-ŘEP , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional - Programme MGR-MEO Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme MGR-UFRP Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional