English

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The course is intended to deepen the student’s language skills necessary for professional communication using relevant vocabulary.

The course is intended for students who are familiar with the language at B1 level (intermediate) since it focuses mainly on vocabulary and communication skills. They are expected to have completed the course of Business English in the first year of their study.

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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.

Credit: credit test
e-learning activities
Exam: listening
reading
75% course attendance is required.

1) Unit 1 – Tense review. Prefixes.
2) Unit 1 – Conversational strategies. Making a good impression.
3) Unit 2 – Perfect tenses. Rules and limits.
4) Unit 2 – Report writing. Checking and clarifying.
5) Unit 3 – Relative clauses. Suffixes and collocations.
6) Unit 3 – Dynamic presentations. Hedging, contrasting and generalizing.
7) Revision.
8) Unit 4 – Narrative tenses. Gerunds and infinitives.
9) Unit 4 – Being assertive. Handling complaints.
10) Unit 5 – Future tenses and future expressions.
11) Unit 5 – Describing graphs. Problems and solutions.
12) Revision.
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 to provide them with specific structures of business English.

Attendance at seminars is systematically checked by the teacher. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.

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APPLEBY, R. and WATKINS, F. International Express Upper-Intermediate Student's Book Third Edition. OUP 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-459761-6 (EN)

MANN, Malcolm a Steve TAYLORE-KNOWLES. Destination B2: grammar and vocabulary : [with answer key]. Oxford: Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 9780230035386. (EN)
MASCULL, Bill. Business vocabulary in use: advanced. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-74940-4. (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)