Course detail

Business English

FP-IoaKAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course develops the students´ language skills for talking to people in business situations, business correspondence, presentation of the company and its products, promotion and sales, talking about money matters, communication in a company, and negotiations.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

An intermediate level of English is required (CEF B1). Completion of the subject Practical English.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

1. credit, maximum number of points 40, 20 for listening, 20 for test
2. examination written and oral - 60 points, 30+30

Credit and tests are based on the subject matter discussed during the semester and the primary literature.

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Aims

The course develops the students´ language skills for talking to people in business situations, business correspondence, presentation of the company and its products, promotion and sales, talking about money matters, communication in a company, and negotiations.
The students will learn how to communicate in business situations - speak on telephone, write business letters, talk about the company, its products, promotion and sales, and money matters, make presentations.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Brook-Hart Guy: Benchmark Advanced, BEC Edition, Amazon 2008
Brook-Hart Guy: Benchmark Advanced, BEC Edition, Amazon 2008
Duckworth Michael, Turner Rebecca: Business Result Upper.Intermediate, OUP 2010
Duckworth Michael, Turner Rebecca: Business Result Upper.Intermediate, OUP 2010
Kaftan, Miroslav: Modern English in Enterprise, Leda Praha 2001
Kaftan, Miroslav: Modern English in Enterprise, Leda Praha 2001

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MGR-IM-KS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

12 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer