Students will acquire the basic terminology and language skills necessary for communication in various situations in business and management, especially regarding company organization , production process, trading, presentations and financial matters. 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 - 10 points

Weekly e-learning assignments - max. 20 points

Optional mid-term test - max. 15 points

Final credit test - max. 55 points

Exam: Only students who have been awarded the credit are allowed to sit the exam.

Students will be asked to give an oral presentation on a selected topic of their own choice (based on the course reading). All topics need to be approved by the lecturer no later than Credit week). Assessment of the presentation reflects the use of correct grammar (max. 35 points), relevant terminology (max. 35 poins) and the coherence and fluency of the speech (max. 30 points). 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).

Week 1

Placement test

Grammar: nouns and determiners. 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

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

Week 3

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

Week 4

Grammar: comparative structures, link wors. Business English: sales ICT: storage devices. Academic English: nouns and verbs with prepositions, useful phrases, abbreviations, affixes.

Week 5

Grammar: present tenses, past tenses, statements/questions. Business English: customer service. ICT: basic software. Academic English: applications, academic life.

Week 6

Optional mid-term test

Grammar: perfect tenses -present and past. Business English: employees. ICT: the Internet. Academic English: e-learning, study habits, money and education.

Week 7

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

Week 8

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

Week 9

Grammar: gerund x infinitive, passive voice. Business English: business and businesses. ICT: computers tomorrow. Academic English: talking about – numbers, statistics, graphs and diagrams, time.

Week 10

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

Week 11

Grammar: conditionals, relative clauses. Business English: global trading, trends in business. Academic English: organising and presenting ideas.

Week 12

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 work in the area of business and management, IT, academic language, knowledge of general English at CEF B1 level.

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.

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