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 Global business issues, Ethics, Production, and operations, Environmental challenges, Competition, etc. Language functions focus on considering options, quantifying, discussing alternatives, and presenting. 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.

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

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

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