Course detail
Business English
FP-IoaPAcad. year: 2024/2025
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.
Guarantor
Department
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.
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.
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 (EN)
Brook-Hart Guy: Benchmark Advanced, BEC Edition, Amazon 2008 (EN)
Duckworth Michael, Turner Rebecca: Business Result Upper.Intermediate, OUP 2010 (EN)
Duckworth Michael, Turner Rebecca: Business Result Upper.Intermediate, OUP 2010 (EN)
Kaftan, Miroslav: Modern English in Enterprise, Leda Praha 2001 (EN)
Kaftan, Miroslav: Modern English in Enterprise, Leda Praha 2001 (EN)
Brook-Hart Guy: Benchmark Advanced, BEC Edition, Amazon 2008 (EN)
Duckworth Michael, Turner Rebecca: Business Result Upper.Intermediate, OUP 2010 (EN)
Duckworth Michael, Turner Rebecca: Business Result Upper.Intermediate, OUP 2010 (EN)
Kaftan, Miroslav: Modern English in Enterprise, Leda Praha 2001 (EN)
Kaftan, Miroslav: Modern English in Enterprise, Leda Praha 2001 (EN)
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-IM Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective