Course detail

Business English 1

FP-han1PAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course follows up on language studied at the secondary school (at maturita/school leaving exam level). It requires good knowledge of general language at pre-intermediate level as minimum. The course is focused on basic characteristic features of business professional communication at B1 level. It provides students with the relevant specialist language and professional communication skills they will need in the workplace.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. et Mgr. Andrea Kratochvílová

Department

Institute of Informatics (ÚI)

Entry knowledge

Good level of English at pre-intermediate level as minimum. Grammar: Nouns – articles, countable and uncountable nouns, expressing quantity; adjectives and adverbs – comparative and superlative, comparison; pronouns – personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite; numerals – cardinal, ordinal; prepositions – local and time expressions; verbs – present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, future – simple, continuous, other expressions of future (going to, present continuous), past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, modal verbs, question forms, negative, short answers, passive and active voice, imperative, conditional, gerund; sentence – word order, there is/there are, question forms, complex and compound sentence – time clauses, conditionals, using of infinitive. Vocabulary: socializing, personal data, school, job, daily routine, leisure time, family, food and drinks, shopping, travelling, clothing, housing, health, public services (post, bank, authorities), environment, weather.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course completion:
Credit requirements: 75% active participation in lessons, e-learning activities, mid-term test and final test
Exam requirements: presentation on a business topic

Course completion for students with individual study plan:
Credit requirements: e-learning activities mid-term test and final test
Exam requirements: presentation on a business topic

Course completion in a distance form (applied only when objective external circumstances do not allow the implementation of the study program in accordance with the granted accreditation):
Credit requirements (via Moodle): 75% active participation in online lessons (MS Teams), e-learning activities, mid-term test and final test
Exam requirements (MS Teams): presentation on a business topic

Course completion based on an international certificate:

Due to the professional content of the subject, no general language exam at a lower level than C1 can be recognized. The international Certificate in Advanced English (CAE), Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) or Business English Certificate (BEC) Vantage or Business English Certificate (BEC) Higher exams can be recognised. Exams can be recognized up to 5 years after they were passed.

Course completion based on an exam taken at a foreign university:

If a student completes a professional English language course at a foreign university whose content demonstrably corresponds to the content and level (business English at level B1 and higher) of the Business English course and passes an exam in it, this course can be recognized as equivalent to the subject Business English HA1P.

Students’ attendance and their participation in lessons is systematically monitored.

Aims

The aim of the course is to develop students' language skills that are used in professional communication (reading, listening, speaking, writing), and provide them with basic terminology and specific structures of professional language with the focus on ability to understand professional texts and communication on professional topics.
The course is intended to deepen the students’ language skills that are essential for professional communication using relevant vocabulary. Students will learn basic economic terminology that enable them to understand professional economic texts.

Study aids

Moodle Course

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

MASCULL, Bill. Business Vocabulary in Use: self-study and classroom use. Intermediate. Third Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2017. X, 176. ISBN 978-1-316-62998-7. (EN)
Emmerson, P. The Business 2.0. Pre-Intermediate. Digital Student's EBook and Resources. 2020. ISBN 9781035132065 (EN)

Type of course unit

Language exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et Mgr. Andrea Kratochvílová

Syllabus

W1 Grammar: present and past.

W2 Grammar: present perfect.

W3 Grammar: future + prepositions of place

W4 Grammar: modals 1.

W5 Grammar: modals 2.

W6 Grammar: passive + adjective+preposition.

W7 Grammar: reported speech + verb-adj.+prep.

W8 Grammar: to or ing.

W9 Grammar: (un)countable nouns.

W10 Grammar: articles, possessives, pronouns.

W11 Grammar: comparison + conditionals.

W12 Grammar: revision.

W13 Credit test

W1 Work and jobs, Ways of Working, Recruitment, Skills, Pay

W2 People and workplaces, Companies and Carees, Problems at Work, Managers, executives and directors, Businesspeople

W3 Organizations 1, Organizations 2, Manufacturing, Development, Innovation

W4 Products and services, Materials and Suppliers, Business Philosophies, Buyers and Sellers, market and Competitors

W5 Marketing, 4P

W6 Mid-term test, E-commerce, Sales and Costs, Profitability

W7 Getting paid, financial statements

W8 Perfonal Finance, indicators

W9 Business Ethics, Corruption, Time Management, Stress Management

W10 Business across cultures, Phoning and Writing

W11 - Meetings and Negotiations

W12 - Prezentation Skills

W 13 Credit Test

Individual preparation for an ending of the course

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et Mgr. Andrea Kratochvílová

Self-study

32 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et Mgr. Andrea Kratochvílová

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Business English 1

Type of course unit