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Course, academic year 2026/2027
  
   
Business English 4a - AB501056
Title: Business English 4a
Guaranteed by: Department of Economics and Management (837)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2020 to 2026
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:6
E-Credits: summer s.:6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/4, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)Schedule is not published yet, this information might be misleading.
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Hřebačková Monika PhDr.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
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.
Last update: Scholleová Hana (17.01.2026)
Course completion requirements

Students can receive credit for the course if they:

1) Meet course attendance requirements

2) Submit a complete Course Portfolio

3) Pass the final Oral Exam

Last update: Hřebačková Monika (09.02.2021)
Literature -

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)
Teaching methods -

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: Scholleová Hana (17.01.2026)
Requirements to the exam -

Students can receive credit for the course if they:

1) Meet course attendance requirements

2) Submit a complete Course Portfolio

3) Pass the final Oral Exam

Last update: Scholleová Hana (17.01.2026)
Syllabus -

1. Course overview, global mobility

2. Relocation opportunities for business and career

3. reading bank 1: ESP text analysis

4. Growing the business: SWOT analysis

5. Strategic Alliances: Living/working with local and global identities

6. Reading bank 2: ESP text analysis

7. Dealing with risk, sustainability

8. Leading a debate

9. Start-ups and management plans

10. Reading bank 3: ESP text analysis

11. Using professional resources, research routines

12. Influencing a decision

13. Reading bank 4: ESP text analysis

14. Revision

Last update: Hřebačková Monika (11.02.2021)
Learning outcomes -

After completing the course, students will be able to better apply communication skills and new phrases, actively use a wide range of grammatical functions in different modes, and critically read texts. All this particularly in the areas of global business issues, ethics, production and operations issues, environmental challenges, market competition, etc.

Last update: Scholleová Hana (17.01.2026)
Registration requirements - Czech

Business English 3a or Business English 3b

Last update: Scholleová Hana (17.01.2026)
Teaching methods
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
3 / 6 84 / 168
 
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