English - upper intermediate level 4024-ANGBIZB2PLUS
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Learning outcomes
Students will be able to communicate effectively in the modern, international business environment. During the course they will acquire the following skills:
1. Describing qualities of good communicators
Dealing with levels of formality and different language registers
Presenting attitudes and explaining viewpoints on stereotypes concerning different nationalities
2. Exchanging and justifying opinions on globalisation
Marketing a global product
Saying complex numbers and figures
Discussing dynamics of meetings
Participating in/chairing a meeting
Disagreeing diplomatically
3. Discussing factors affecting motivation
Prioritising fringe benefits
Handling difficult situations
Writing a memo
4. Speculating about the future
Presenting an idea for a product or service
Discussing the likelihood of predictions
Describing change/talking about trends in reference to modern technology
Giving and getting explanations/making things clear when talking about modern technology
. Differentiating between a problem and a crisis
Breaking bad news
Analysing crisis management cases
Managing a crisis – a simulation
Summarising information
Writing a report
6. Discussing risk connected with takeovers and mergers
Making decisions in difficult situations
Identifying negotiating strategies/tactics
Negotiating tricky situations/contracts
Sounding more diplomatic
Describing causes and results of events
Listening
-student is able:
- to identify main and side topics of lectures, academic debates and discussions
-to refer to and analyse the given contents
Reading
Student is able to:
-search for and find the necessary information, connected with their area of studies, using various possible sources
-read with understanding academic texts
-to analyse and interpret the given facts and opinions
-to guess the meaning of unknown words from the context; knows how to use different types of dictionaries
Verbal interaction and speaking
Student is able to:
-take part in discussions, putting forward their arguments and opinions, asking questions
-use specialist terminology in line with the area of studies
-summarise orally the results of experiments and research
-present opinions and arguments published in academic and scientific texts
-paraphrase
Writing
Student is able to:
--summarise in the written form the results of experiments and research, present opinions and arguments published in academic and scientific texts, on the basis of their own notes
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