Course detail
Business English
FP-EbePAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course is intended to teach English as a foreign language at professional level. It focuses on enlarging and practising vocabulary used in finance.
Language of instruction
English
Number of ECTS credits
3
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Course is intended for students who are familiar with the language at the intermediate level.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of regular attendance, active participation and having worked out assigned tasks. Students are obliged to take a written exam (minimum score to pass is 50%). The exam has one regular term and one resit. For second resit see Dean's Directive 3/2014.
Students’ participation in seminars is compulsory and their work is systematically controlled. Absence may be compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.
Students’ participation in seminars is compulsory and their work is systematically controlled. Absence may be compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.
Aims
a) Understand financial English
b) Use written and spoken English for general and business communication with particular emphasis paid to financial environments.
c) Solve problems in simulated financial business situations in English.
d) Identify, retrieve and synthesize information in English.
b) Use written and spoken English for general and business communication with particular emphasis paid to financial environments.
c) Solve problems in simulated financial business situations in English.
d) Identify, retrieve and synthesize information in English.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
Dubicka, I., O'Keeffe, M. (2016) Market Leader Advanced. 3rd Edition. Harlow: Pearson (EN)
eLearning - elektronické materiály Ústavu jazyků FSI. . (EN)
eLearning - elektronické materiály Ústavu jazyků FSI. . (EN)
Recommended reading
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-EBF Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory