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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The course it taught by means of language lessons focused on practicing language skills and developing vocabulary. It includes also individual work of students in the elearning environment.

Credit requirements: Participation and work in the exercises is systematically controlled, course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having worked out all assigned tasks in e-learning (60% points at the credit test as minimum). The credit test has one regular term and two resits.

1 U1: Brands – Favourite brands, Building brand, Words that go with brand, product and market
2 U1: Brands – Present Simple and Present Continuous, Taking part in meetings
3 U2: Travel – Travel Experiences, A hotel chain, What business travellers want, British and American Travel words
4 U2: Travel – Future, Telephoning: making arrangements.
5 U3: Past Simple and Present Perfect. Revision
6 U4: Organisation – Status within an organisation, A successful organisation, Words and expressions that describe company structure
7 U4: Organisation – Noun combinations, Socialising: introductions and networking
8 U5: Advertising – Authentic advertisements, A new kind of campaign, Words and expressions for talking about advertising
9 U5: Advertising – Articles, Starting and structuring a presentation
10 U6: Money – Attitudes to money, Investments, Words for talking about finance
11 U6: Money – Describing trends, Dealing with figures
12 Revision
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)
MURPHY, Raymond. English grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate learners of English: with answers. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2012, x, 380 s. ISBN 9780521189064. (EN)