Course detail
English for Business Communication 1
FP-AOP1Acad. year: 2022/2023
The course follows up on language studied in the compulsory course of Business English in the first year of study. 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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Number of ECTS credits
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
credit requirements: 75% course attendance, e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Course assessment for students with an individual study plan:
credit requirements: e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Course assessment in distance education courses (applied only when objective external circumstances do not allow the implementation of the study programme in accordance with the granted accreditation)
credit requirements: e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Course curriculum
2) Unit 1 – Conversational strategies. Making a good impression.
3) Unit 2 – Perfect tenses. Rules and limits.
4) Unit 2 – Report writing. Checking and clarifying.
5) Unit 3 – Relative clauses. Suffixes and collocations.
6) Unit 3 – Dynamic presentations. Hedging, contrasting and generalizing.
7) Revision.
8) Unit 4 – Narrative tenses. Gerunds and infinitives.
9) Unit 4 – Being assertive. Handling complaints.
10) Unit 5 – Future tenses and future expressions.
11) Unit 5 – Describing graphs. Problems and solutions.
12) Revision.
13) Credit test.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
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)
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BAK Bachelor's
branch BAK-UAD-D , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
branch BAK-EP , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme BAK-EP Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme BAK-MIn Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme BAK-PM Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme BAK-UAD Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Elearning