Course detail
English for Business Communication 1
FP-AOP1Acad. year: 2023/2024
The course follows up on language studied in the compulsory course of Business English in the first year of study. The course is focused on general language as well as characteristic features of business communication at B2 level. It provides students with the relevant specialist language and professional communication skills they will need in the workplace.
Language of instruction
English
Number of ECTS credits
3
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
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.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Course assessment in full-time study:
credit requirements: 75% course attendance, e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Course assessment for students with an individual study plan:
credit requirements: e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Course assessment in distance education courses (applied only when objective external circumstances do not allow the implementation of the study programme in accordance with the granted accreditation)
credit requirements: e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Attendance at seminars is systematically checked by the teacher. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.
credit requirements: 75% course attendance, e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Course assessment for students with an individual study plan:
credit requirements: e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Course assessment in distance education courses (applied only when objective external circumstances do not allow the implementation of the study programme in accordance with the granted accreditation)
credit requirements: e-learning activities, final test
exam requirements: listening comprehension, reading comprehension
Attendance at seminars is systematically checked by the teacher. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.
Aims
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.
The course is intended to deepen the student’s language skills necessary for professional communication using relevant vocabulary.
The course is intended to deepen the student’s language skills necessary for professional communication using relevant vocabulary.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
APPLEBY, R. and WATKINS, F. International Express Upper-Intermediate Student's Book Third Edition. OUP 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-459761-6 (EN)
Recommended reading
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)
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)
Elearning
eLearning: currently opened course
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Language exercise
26 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Kurz AOP1 je zamýšlen jako volné rozšíření povinného kurzu Hospodářské angličtiny z prvního ročníku. Je zaměřen na upevnění jazyka v obecné rovině a charakteristické vlastnosti obchodní komunikace na úrovni B2 – C1. Poskytuje studentům příslušnou slovní zásobu a dovednosti nezbytné pro komunikaci v obchodní praxi.
1. U1: Social media – Tense review
2. U1: Vocabulary – Prefixes; Conversational strategies
3. U2: Resources – Perfect tenses
4. U2: Vocabulary – Rules and limits; Report writing
5. U3: Work-life balance – Relative clauses
6. U3: Vocabubary – Suffixes and collocations; Hedging, contrasting, and generalizing
7. U4: Providing a service – Narrative tenses
8. U4: Vocabulary – Gerunds and infinitives; Being assertive; Handling complaints
9. U5: Looking into the future – Future tenses
10. U5: Vocabulary – Future expressions
11. U5: Describing graphs; Problems and solutions
12. Revision
13. Credit test
Elearning
eLearning: currently opened course