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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Unit 1: Contacts at work - English on the phone, listening. Articles. Unit 1: Developing contacts - speaking, dialogues, reading, listening. Articles. Unit 1: Outside office hours - dialogues on the phone, messages, requests, commands. Unit 2: Your Company - desription of company (vocabulary, phrases). Unit 2: Your Company - reading, listening, speaking. Giving directions. Unit 2: Company Profile, Competition, vocabulary, exercises, reading, discussion. Revision - Unit 2, progress check, translation, reading, listening. Unit 3: Personal Background - Personnel. Present Perfect Tense. Unit 3: Conditions at Work, Social Benefits, Satisfaction. Present Perfect Tense vs. Past Perfect Tense. Unit 3: Job Descriptions - vocabulary, listening, reading.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Observation, Demonstration
- Attendace
- 25 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 25 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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This practical course is focused on expanding the knowledge and use of advanced English vocabulary in selected topics in professional communication in the business sphere (First impressions, Working life, Performances, Projects, New ideas, Customer service, Company presentation, etc.). Students will get familiar with the basic knowledge of business correspondence in English (typical phrases, structure, basic genres). The emphasis is put on independent performance, working with text, using fixed collocationsto in context, enriching vocabulary. Conversation practice is accompanied by a selected grammar review (e.g. tense revision, conditional sentences, prepositions).
After completing this course students will be able to express themselves adequately in written business communication in the basic genres, they will be able to communicate both actively and passively (listening, reading) about the topics of corporation, profession or tendencies in economy.
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge of English language corresponding to at least B1 level of the European Framework of Reference for Languages, both written and oral (i.e. the level reached after completing the courses KSR/ANG1-4).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Student performance
Active participation, max. 2 absences Passing the test during the term (vocabulary, phrases, translation) Oral presentation of a given topic in English Passing the credit test
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Recommended literature
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Badger, I., Menzies, P. (1996). Multilevel Business Programme. Intermediate. London.
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Dušková, L. a kol. (1991). Stručná mluvnice angličtiny. Praha.
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Murphy,R. English Grammar in Use.
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Peters, S., Gráf, T.:. Nová cvičebnice anglické gramatiky. Polyglot 1998.
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Stephens, B. (2011). Meetings in English. Macmillan.
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