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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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Credit requirements: Participation and work in the exercises is systematically controlled, 60% points at the credit test as minimum.

1. U1 Languages. Using English for work.
2. U1 Benefits of a common language in business.
3. U1 Telephoning. Letters, faxes and e-mails.
4. U2 Employment and working lives. Attitudes towards work.
5. U2 Talking about jobs. Success.
6. U2 Advice for writing a CV. Producing a CV.
7. U3 Employment. Candidate assessment.
8. U3 Interview.
9. U3 Applying for a job.
10.U6 Marketing. Brands.
11.U6 USP’s and product life cycle.
12.U6 Presenting products at fair trades.
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 provides 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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MANN, Malcolm a Steve TAYLORE-KNOWLES. Destination B1: grammar and vocabulary : [with answer key]. Oxford: Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 9780230035362. (EN)

26 hours, optionally