Business English II - N834039
Title: Business English II
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:1
E-Credits: summer s.:1
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Holanová Petra Mgr.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The subject is drawn up to improve vocabulary and grammar connected with company life. The topics of the subject include workplace atmosphere, working practices in the future, company reorganization, staff negotiations, corporate ethics and overseas partnership. The aim of the subject is to achieve B2/C1 level according to CERF ( Common European Reference Framework).
Last update: Holanová Petra (15.08.2016)
Aim of the course -

Students will be able to :

  • solve model business and relational situations at place of work using all acquired language skills
  • read charts, graphs, diagrams and use them in their own presentations
  • understand cultural differences and react adaquately in international meetings
Last update: Holanová Petra (16.08.2016)
Literature -

R: Brook-Hart G.,Business Benchmark Advanced, Cambridge University Press,2007, 9780521672955

A: Mascull B.,Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate,Cambridge University Press,2002, 0521775299

A: Murphy R.,English Grammar in Use,Cambridge University Press,2004, 0521537622

Last update: Holanová Petra (15.08.2016)
Learning resources -

Materials prepared and/or recommended by the teacher.

Last update: Novotná Jana (08.09.2016)
Syllabus -

1. Forecasts and results; How to prepare a sales forecast; Types of forecaster; Vocabulary from profit-and-loss account and balance sheet; Conditional sentences

2. Financing the arts; A proposal for sponsoring an arts or sports event; Infinitive and verb + ing

3. How to deal with late payers; Letter complaining about late payment; Complex sentences

4. Negotiating a lease; Negotiation idioms; Conditionals: alternatives to if

5. Workplace atmosphere; Motivating employees; Short report on stress and absenteeism; Reference devices

6. Working practices in the future; Types of worker; Ways of working (job sharing, teleworking…)

7. Productivity; Productivity concerns; Describing charts; Expressing causes and results

8. Staff negotiations; Company reorganization; Phrases for negotiating; Variations on conditional sentences

9. Corporate ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility; Fair trade; Proposal to give your company a more ethical image; Adverbial phrases; Articles

10. Expanding abroad; Supervising subsidiaries; Making acquisitions; Adjectives and adverbs of frequency

11. Overseas partnership – reasons and problems; Letter to prospective customers; Complex sentences; Tenses in future time clauses

12. A planning conference; Risk management; Useful hints for making presentations; Discourse markers for short talks; Concession

13. General revision

14. Final test

Last update: Holanová Petra (28.06.2016)
Registration requirements -

Knowledge at Business English I level.

Last update: Holanová Petra (16.08.2016)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na seminářích 1 28
1 / 1 28 / 28
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Regular attendance 70
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests 30