English

Not applicable.

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 knowledge of general language at pre-intermediate level as minimum. Knowledge of professional language structures and vocabulary corresponding to the course studied in the winter semester. Credit from HA1P.

Not applicable.

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 are systematically controlled, 60% points at the credit test as minimum. Evaluation reflects the student’s work in the exercises and the knowledge tested by the examination. The examination consists of written and oral part. The exam corresponds to the B1 level according to the Common European Framework. The credit test and exam have one regular term and two resits.

1. U5 Customers – Customer service.
2. U5 Customers – Getting information. Making and changing arrangements.
3. U5 Customers – Starting conversation on the phone.
4. U6 Guests and visitors – Business travel.
5. U6 Guests and visitors – Welcoming visitors.
6. U6 Guests and visitors. – How to make and respond to offers
7. U7 Security – Security at work.
8. U7 Security – Presenting, Explaining and asking about changes.
9. U7 Security – How to introduce and respond to news.
10.U8 Working together – Teamwork and partnerships.
11.U8 Working together – Presenting and discussing plans.
12.U8 Working together – How to encourage people. Talking about future goals.
13.Credit test.

Not applicable.

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.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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)