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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.
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Students can receive credit for the course if they: 1) Meet course attendance requirements 2) Submit a complete Course Portfolio Last update: Hřebačková Monika (09.02.2021)
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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_W riting Last update: Hřebačková Monika (09.02.2021)
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A course portfolio Last update: Hřebačková Monika (09.02.2021)
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1. Course overview, your background and career 2. Working with a focus group Business Vocabulary Builder: Marketing, storytelling 3. Reading bank: Career mobility 4. Financial matters Business Vocabulary Builder: Company finance 5. Financial matters Business Vocabulary Builder: Company finance 6. Reading bank: Professional business mentoring 7. Difficult decisions 8. In-class presentations 9. Learning from experience 10. Reading bank: The Starbucks effect 11. The GROW model Business Vocabulary Builder: Speaking practice 12. Environmental and Cyber challenges 13. Reading bank: Plastic is the problem 14. Revision
Last update: Hřebačková Monika (09.02.2021)
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