Course details
Business English 1/2
JA4 Acad. year 2003/2004 Winter semester 2 credits
The course develops the students' skills - speaking, reading, listening and writing for business situations, business correspondence, using telephone in business, talking about the company, its organization, staff responsibilities, products and services, money matters, non-payment problems, taking part in interviews, meetings, negotiations, and for making presentations about the company and its products. Students will work in class with the department´s textbooks.
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
The students will learn to communicate in business situations - to speak on telephone, to write business letters, to talk about the company, its products and money matters, to make presentations.
Learning objectives
The course develops the students´ basic skills for talking to people in business situations, business correspondence, presentation of the company and its products, talking about money matters, applying for jobs,taking part in meetings, and negotiations. Note: this is a two-semester course.
Study literature
- Podle doporučení učitele.
Fundamental literature
- V. Hollett: Business Objectives, Oxford University Press
- L. Jones and R. Alexander: New International Business English, Cambridge University Press
- I. Mackenzie: Financial English, Language Teaching Publications, Hove, England
- V. Hollett: Meeting Objectives, Oxford University Press
- A. Ashley: Commercial Correspondence, Oxford University Press
- Authentic materials
Progress assessment
progress assessment, presentations
Course inclusion in study plans
- Programme EI-BC-3, field VTB, any year of study, Recommended
- Programme EI-BC-3 (in English), field VTB, any year of study, Recommended
- Programme EI-MGR-3, field VTN, any year of study, Recommended
- Programme EI-MGR-5, field VTI, any year of study, Recommended
- Programme EI-MGR-5 (in English), field VTI, any year of study, Recommended
- Programme IT-BC-3, field BIT, any year of study, Compulsory-Elective
- Programme IT-BC-3 (in English), field BIT, any year of study, Compulsory-Elective