English

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The course is intended to deepen the student’s language skills necessary for professional communication using relevant vocabulary. It will familiarise the students with basic economic terminology and enable them to understand professional economic texts.

Good level of English at pre-intermediate level as minimum. Grammar: Nouns – articles, countable and uncountable nouns, expressing quantity; adjectives and adverbs – comparative and superlative, comparison; pronouns – personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite; numerals – cardinal, ordinal; prepositions – local and time expressions; verbs – present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, future – simple, continuous, other expressions of future (going to, present continuous), past perfect simple, past perfect continuous, modal verbs, question forms, negative, short answers, passive and active voice, imperative, conditional, gerund; sentence – word order, there is/there are, question forms, complex and compound sentence – time clauses, conditionals, using of infinitive. Vocabulary: socializing, personal data, school, job, daily routine, leisure time, family, food and drinks, shopping, travelling, clothing, housing, health, public services (post, bank, authorities), environment, weather.

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Credit requirements: Participation and work in the exercises is systematically controlled, 60% points at the credit test as minimum. The credit test has one regular term and two resits.

1. U1 Working life - Describing work. Talking about work and responsibilities.
2. U1 Working life - Socializing. Introducing.
3. U1 Working life - How to express interest in business conversations.
4. U2 Projects - Talking about projects.
5. U2 Projects - Meetings. Updating and delegating tasks.
6. U2 Projects - How to start and end phone calls.
7. U3 Leisure time - Talking about work-life balance.
8. U3 Leisure time - Exchanging information. Exchanging contact details
9. U3 Leisure time - How to end conversations politely.
10.U4 Services and systems - Presenting.
11.U4 Services and systems - Explaining how something works.
12.U4 Services and systems - How to introduce information. Making comparisons.
13.Credit test

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The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with language skills used in professional communication (reading, listening, speaking, writing), and provide them with basic terminology and specific structures of professional language.

Students’ participation and their work in the exercises are systematically controlled. Absence may be compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.

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COTTON, David, David FALVEY, Simon KENT, Bill MASCULL a John ROGERS. Market leader: intermediate: business English. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4082-3695-6. (EN)

MANN, Malcolm a Steve TAYLORE-KNOWLES. Destination B1: grammar and vocabulary : [with answer key]. Oxford: Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 9780230035362. (EN)
MASCULL, B.: Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate, CUP 2010 (EN)