Course: English for Specific Purposes (Business English)

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Course title English for Specific Purposes (Business English)
Course code KAE/ESP
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kleisl Pavel, Mgr.
Course content
Businesses Job interviews Work experience Leaders, leadership, styles Managers, management Meetings Business presentations Negotiations Business trips Marketing

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
  • Attendace - 25 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 25 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 25 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course aims to give the students the business communication skills they need to meet the challenges in their professional life and develop their confidence in working with foreign colleagues in different business situations.
Language knowledge in the areas of jobs, people and organisations, production, marketing, finance and the economy and business culture.
Prerequisites
Students are chosen based on the results of a language test. Required level: intermediate.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Didactic Test

Attendance 75%. Active work. Completion of assignments. Test. Grading scale: A 91-100 B 82-90 C 73-81 D 64-72 E 55-63
Recommended literature
  • Mascull, B. (2007). Business Vocabulary in Use. Intermediate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pile,L., Lloyd-Jones, C. Pass Cambridge BEC Higher. An examination preparation course. Teacher´s Book. Summertime Publishing, Oxford 2004. ISBN -1-902741-36-6..
  • Whitehead, R., Black, M. Pass Cambridge BEC Higher. Self-Study Practice Tests. Summertime Publishing, Oxford 2003. ISBN 1-902741-420..
  • Wood,I., Pile,L. Pass Cambridge BEC Higher. An examination preparation course. Student´s Book. Summertime Publishing. Oxford 2006. ISBN 1-902741-35-8..


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