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Business English I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 712-0138/01
Abbreviation A-BE/I
Course title Business English I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Institute of Languages
Course coordinator Mgr. Zuzana Trawinská

Subject syllabus

Business Partner B2+: Units 1 - 3
1 Market research methods
2 Making requests and expressing polite commands
3 Different ways of carrying out a needs analysis
4 Responding effectively to questions during and after a presentation, question tags
5 Collaboration and mentoring in the workplace
6 Negotiation phrases
7 The negotiation of an agreement
8 Cleft sentences
9 Formal correspondence
10 Banking and personal finance
11 Phrasal verbs
12 Presentation styles, a letter of complaint
13 Credit Test

Literature

DUBICKA, I., ROSENBERG, M., DIGNEN, B., HOGAN, M., WRIGHT, L. Business Partner B2+: Coursebook with Digital Resources. 1st ed. Pearson: Pearson Education Limited, 2019, 160 s. ISBN 978-1-292-23357-4 .
MCCARTHY, Michael; Felicity O‘DELL. Business Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate Book with Answers. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 280 s. ISBN 978-1-316-63175-1 .
TURNBULL, J. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: Paperback + DVD + Premium Online Access Code. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 1948 s. ISBN 978-0-194-79879-2.

Advised literature

MURPHY, R. English Grammar in Use 3rd Edition with Answers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-53762-9.
MASCULL, B. Business Vocabulary in Use. Third Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-316-62998-7.
Mobilní aplikace: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD9)