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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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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, 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 1 9. In-class presentations 2 10. Economics and ecology 11. Considering solutions and consequences 12. Case study: Carbon footprint 13. Using professional resources, research routines 14. Case study writing task, summarizing findings 15. Revision Last update: Hřebačková Monika (09.02.2021)
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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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