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Business English 3b - AB501055

Title:	Business English 3b
Guaranteed by:	Department of Economics and Management (837)
Actual:	from 2020
Semester:	winter
Points:	winter s.:3
E-Credits:	winter s.:3
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:0/2 MC [hours/week]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
For type:
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Hřebačková Monika PhDr.

Examination dates

Annotation

Last update: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (09.02.2021)

The Business English 3b 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.

Literature

Last update: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (09.02.2021)

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

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (09.02.2021)

A course portfolio

Syllabus

Last update: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (09.02.2021)

1. Course overview, working across cultures

2. Company finance

3. Reading bank: news and annual reports

4. Financial terminology

5. Presenting figures, financial reporting

6. Case study: Business ideas: Make your pitch

7. Case study writing task

8. In-class presentations 1

9. In-class presentations 2

10. Economics and ecology

11. Considering solutions and consequences

12. Case study: Carbon footprint

13. Using professional resources, research routines

14. Case study writing task, summarizing findings

15. Revision

Course completion requirements

Last update: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (09.02.2021)

Students can receive credit for the course if they:

1) Meet course attendance requirements

2) Submit a complete Course Portfolio