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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)
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Students will be able to :
Last update: Holanová Petra (16.08.2016)
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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)
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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)
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Materials prepared and/or recommended by the teacher. Last update: Novotná Jana (08.09.2016)
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Knowledge at Business English I level. Last update: Holanová Petra (16.08.2016)
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Activity | Credits | Hours | ||
Účast na seminářích | 1 | 28 | ||
1 / 1 | 28 / 28 |
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Form | Significance |
Regular attendance | 70 |
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests | 30 |