Practical English course - business language 3222-50AB4C-N
The objective of the course is acquiring English proficiency in the field of business to acquire competences of English proficiency of C1 level (CEFR).
Students can understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly. Students can understand television programmes and films without too much effort (listening). Students can understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style. Students can understand specialised articles and longer technical instructions, even when they do not relate to their field (reading). Students can express myself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. They can use language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes. They can formulate ideas and opinions with precision and relate their contribution skilfully to those of other speakers (spoken interaction). Students can present clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion (spoken production). Students are to improve listening, speaking, and reading skills.
Particular attention is paid to the development of communication skills using business-related lexis.
Teaching contents:
- students become acquainted with the lexical material in the following branches of business: business communication, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, management styles, organizational and financial structure of entrepreneurship, relations between employees, risk in business and risk management, building teams, customer service, etc.;
-practising using the following grammar structures in speech: present tenses, past tenses, structures to express future, conditional sentences, articles, prepositions, infinitives, gerund forms, modal verbs.
Student workload:
60 hours (Organized hours 2 hours weekly x 1 semester = 30 hours; Self-study – 30 hours - preparation for classes, 15 hours - preparation for evaluation 15 hours)
If it is not possible to conduct classes on university premises, classes
shall be held with the aid of distance learning tools, most likely Google
Meet and others recommended by the University of Warsaw.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Term 2024Z: | Term 2023Z: |
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
the student knows the English language at the level C1 plus (K2_W09)
Skills
the student communicates using grammar rules and lexical items of the English language at the level of C1 plus (K2_U10)
Competence
The student can evaluate their language knowledge and information received (K2_K01)
The student thinks and acts in an industrious manner, while initiating activities for the social environment (K2_K02)
Assessment criteria
A pass is granted when the student has passed two tests in the semester and the final test in the last but one class of the semester.
The criteria used for evaluating the final (written) test result from percentage bands:
60% – 68% - 3
69% - 77% - 3+
78% - 86% - 4
87% - 95% - 4+
96% - 98 % - 5
99% -100% - 5 !
The student is permitted to have 2 hours of unexcused absence. In cases where a student has failed to receive a pass, they have the right to take tests in the main session and in the resit session.
Bibliography
1. Market Leader. Course Book. Upper Intermediate Business English. David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. [2001] 2003. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
2. Business Vocabulary in Use. Advanced. Bill Mascull. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Teacher's own mateials, including articles from The Financial Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, and open-access (audio) materials from YouTube and Business Insider.
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Term 2024Z:
1. Market Leader. Course Book. Upper Intermediate Business English. David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. [2001] 2003. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. |
Additional information
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