The course is designed to prepare students to use English in the present and future work situations. Students will develop English skills with a focus on business contexts and environments, and they will learn lexis that is used regularly in the world of international business and impacts intercultural communication. The course will help practice and enrich communication skills, encourage students to use word partnerships, a wide variety of grammar functions in different modes, read texts critically, and widen their experience. The topics include financial issues, international businesses, global mobility, ecological consequences, etc. Language functions focus on comparing, dealing with figures, speculating, reporting, presenting, and describing cause and effect. Knowledge will be transferred through speaking practice, fortifying exercises, role-plays as well as listening and reading comprehension, case studies, and short pieces of business-oriented writing.

Students can receive credit for the course if they:

1) Meet course attendance requirements

2) Submit a complete Course Portfolio

3) Pass the end-of-course test

Primary literature

Cotton, D., Falvey, D., Kent, S. Market Leader, Intermediate, 3rd. Ed. (Pearson)

Class handouts

Secondary literature

Emmerson, Paul. Business Vocabulary Builder (MacMillan).

Emmerson, Paul. Business Grammar Builder, 2nd Ed. (MacMillan).

Simon, Sweeney. English for Business Communication. (Cambridge University Press). Dooley, Jenny; Evans, Virginia. Grammarway 3 (Express Publishing). https://tsufacultyoflaw.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/grammarway3-withanswers1.pdf Desmond, A. Gilling. The Essential Handbook For Business Writing. (Greenlink Consulting) https://www.academia.edu/31717020/The_Essential_Handbook_For_Business_W riting

Students can receive credit for the course if they:

1) Meet course attendance requirements

2) Submit a complete Course Portfolio

1. Course overview; cultural differences

2. Culture shock

Business Vocabulary Builder: Marketing, storytelling

3. Giving advice

4. Expressing obligation and necessity

Business Vocabulary Builder: Company finance

5. Employing the right people

6. Women at work

7. Finding a job

8. Describing the world around us

9. Describing the world around us: Learning from experience

10. Free trade

11. Conditions in negotiating

Business Vocabulary Builder: Speaking practice

12. Environmental and Cyber challenges

13. Revision

14. End-of-course test