Business English 2b - AB501053
Anglický název: Business English 2b
Zajišťuje: Ústav ekonomiky a managementu (837)
Fakulta: Celoškolská pracoviště VŠCHT Praha
Platnost: od 2020
Semestr: letní
Body: letní s.:3
E-Kredity: letní s.:3
Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, KZ [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
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Garant: Hřebačková Monika PhDr.
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Anotace - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (15.01.2021)
Business English 2b is designed to prepare students to use English in the present and future work situations, especially in international labour markets. 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 managing change, analyzing company structure, global mobility, etc. Language functions focus on deciding, describing trends, discussing alternatives, and presenting opinions. 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. Course objectives Students will be able to: • Develop skills to deal with people in everyday business situations • Increase their knowledge of key business concepts worldwide • Write and read business agendas, e-mails, memos, minutes, and reports • Expand vocabulary related to general business situations • Develop confidence to deal with people and basic issues in the business world • Express business concepts by reformulating them in their own words while summarising • Identify differences and similarities between doing business in Europe and in other countries • Develop an understanding of how culture impacts everyday dealings in the business environment.
Literatura - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (15.01.2021)

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_Writing

Požadavky ke zkoušce (Forma způsobu ověření studijních výsledků) - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (15.01.2021)

Assessment details

The Course Portfolio consists of two main sections: a) tasks completed throughout the semester based on teacher’s instructions, and b) a short test.

a) Tasks completed throughout the semester include:

1) A video presentation based on the coursebook.

2) A team presentation, “Presenting the results of any Case study”, based on the coursebook.

3) A report related to the case study

4) A student-created business vocabulary patterns in complex business-oriented sentences.

b) a short test

Sylabus - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (15.01.2021)

1. Course overview, your background, and career

2. People and organizations

3. Reading bank: P. Drucker: What is management

4. Change and changeability, word formation

5. Describing change, the language of trends

6. Reading bank: Managing change

7. Dealing with facts and figures

8. Global mobility

9. Working across cultures, values, and awareness

10. Company structure

11. Language review: word combinations

12. Case study: Global mobility, relocation

13. Delayering, downsizing, outplacement

14. Revision

Podmínky zakončení předmětu (Další požadavky na studenta) - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Hřebačková Monika PhDr. (15.01.2021)

course portfolio

Zátěž studenta
Činnost Kredity Hodiny
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
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