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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. Last update: Hřebačková Monika (09.02.2021)
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course portfolio Last update: Hřebačková Monika (15.01.2021)
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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_Writing Last update: Hřebačková Monika (15.01.2021)
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Assessment details The Course Portfolio consists of two main sections: a) tasks completed throughout the semester based on teacher’s instructions, and b) a short test. a) Tasks completed throughout the semester include: 1) An individual presentation based on the coursebook. 2) A team presentation, “Presenting the results of any Case study”, based on the coursebook. 3) An article summary 4) A student-created business vocabulary patterns in complex business-oriented sentences. b) a short test Last update: Hřebačková Monika (15.01.2021)
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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 9. Economics and ecology 10. Considering solutions and consequences 11. Case study: Carbon footprint 12. Using professional resources, research routines 13. Case study writing task, summarizing findings 14. Revision
Last update: Hřebačková Monika (15.01.2021)
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| Activity | Credits | Hours | ||
| Obhajoba individuálního projektu | 0.1 | 2 | ||
| Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi | 1 | 28 | ||
| Práce na individuálním projektu | 0.9 | 26 | ||
| Účast na seminářích | 1 | 28 | ||
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