Students will acquire advanced terminology and language skills necessary for communication in various situations in business and management. They will be made familiar with the terminology necessary for work in IT and with professional academic and IT materials.

Course Completion

Credit: Students will be awarded the credit upon collecting at least 50 points out of the total 100, as follows:

75% compulsory attendance in seminars, max. 3 missed seminars - 10 points

10 weekly e-learning assignments submitted before deadline - max. 20 points

A summary of an academic article (150-300 words) of the student's own choice, assessment based on the use of correct grammar, stylistics and professional terminology - 10 points

Final credit test - up to 60 points

Exam: 

The exam takes the form of a group project and a presentation of this project. No later than Credit Week, students are divided into groups of 4, when they also choose the topic for their project. They then prepare a project proposal, which they submit in Moodle no later than 3 days before the exam. They then present their project on the day of the exam. Students will receive more information about the project during the semester. 

The final mark is awarded based on the total number of collected points in line with the ECTS grading scale as follows: 100-90 (A), 89-80 (B), 79-70 (C), 69-60 (D), 59-50 (E), 49-0 (F).

see Moodle

Week 1

Business English: research and development. ICT: digital age, computer essential, technical specs. Academic English: general academic vocab – key nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

Week 2

Business English: production. ICT: buying a PC, input/output devices I. Academic English: phrasal verbs, quantity expressions, homonyms, metaphors and idioms.

Week 3

Business English: marketing. ICT: input/output devices II. Academic English: nouns, adjectives and verbs and the words they combine with, prepositional phrases.

Week 4

Business English: sales ICT: storage devices. Academic English: nouns and verbs with prepositions, useful phrases, abbreviations, affixes.

Week 5

Business English: customer service. ICT: basic software. Academic English: applications, academic life.

Week 6

Business English: employees. ICT: the Internet. Academic English: e-learning, study habits, money and education.

Week 7

Business English: managers. ICT: creative software (graphics, DTP, multimedia, web design). Academic English: planning and starting work.

Week 8

Business English: careers, qualifications and training. ICT: programming/ICT jobs. Academic English: project work, talking about meaning/points of view.

Week 9

Business English: business and businesses. ICT: computers tomorrow. Academic English: talking about – numbers, statistics, graphs and diagrams, time.

Week 10

Business English: IT in the workplace. Academic English: cause and effect, classifying, structuring an argument, organising your writing.

Week 11

Business English: global trading, trends in business. Academic English: organising and presenting ideas.

Week 12

Revision

Week 13

Credit test

Development of all language skills, consolidation and deepening of knowledge of grammatical structures, and increase in vocabulary with special emphasis on language needed at university, as well as at work in the area of management and IT, knowledge of general English at CEF B1 level.

• compulsory co-requisite
  • Professional English 1

CAPEL, W., FLOCKHART, J. and ROBBINS, S. Business Vocabulary in Practice. 3^rd ed. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. X, 173. ISBN 978-0-00-742375-0.

MCCARTHY, M. and O´DELL, F. Academic Vocabulary in Use. 2^nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. X, 174. ISBN 978-1-107-59166-0.

REMACHA ESTERAS, Santiago. Infotech: English for Computer Users. Student´s Book. 4^th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. X, 168. ISBN 978-0-52-1702997.

• Programme BAK-MIn Bachelor's, 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  

• Programme BAK-MIn-D Bachelor's

  branch BAK-MIn , 1. year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional