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Aims of the course:
- o further develop communicative competence in English
- to expand vocabulary range and explore complex grammatical structures
- to prepare students to use English proficiently in academic and professional settings
- to develop students’ competence and autonomy in participating in complex, professional discourse, including the distinct and coherent presentation of personal standpoint in speech and writing
- to develop intercultural awareness and competence
- to foster the development of self-directed, autonomous learning skills and lifelong learning strategies
The content of the course:
Main topic areas:
Semester I
• Selling more
• New Business
Semester II
• Financial Control
• Fair trade
Lexical and grammatical structures:
Semester I
• Basic marketing terminology: marketing mix, sales promotion techniques, sales letters
• Setting up a business: entrepreneurship, financing start-ups, types of financing, applying for funding
• Negative questions
• Question tags
• Future continuous and future perfect
Semester II
• Basic financial terminology: accounting documents and categories,
• Free trade vs. fair trade: advantages and disadvantages
• Language of contracts
• Corporate ethics, examples of unethical behaviour
• Language of negotiation
• Cause and effect linking devices
• Expressing ability
• Articles
• Modal verbs to express obligation and permission
Language functions / ability to communicate:
- Persuading customers
- Dealing with customers’ objections
- Writing an effective sales letter
- Talking about future plans
- Reporting on company performance
- Negotiating a compromise
- Writing an enquiry, reply to an enquiry
Academic component:
- Active participation in panel discussions on the topics studied
- Functioning in situations typical for academic environment, e.g. discussion, presentation, speech
- Finding , selecting and analysing information
- Nauczyciel: Bartosik Ewa
The aim of the course is to:
- further develop communicative competencies in English
- enhance vocabulary range and explore complex grammatical structures
- further enable students to use English in academic and professional settings
- help present student’s personal standpoint in speech and writing in a clear and coherent manner
- foster self-education learning strategies
- promote team work
Throughout the course the main topic areas include:
Semester 1
- Loans and credit
- Corporate Finance: Stocks, shares and bonds
- Derivatives: futures, forwards, options and swaps trading
- Company Law, AGMs
- The money market
- Business correspondence: letters/emails of enquiry; layout, register (formal, semi-formal, informal)
Semester 2
- Negotiations
- Mergers and Acquisitions, leveraged buyouts
- Asset management
- Business correspondence: internal emails
- Business correspondence: cover letters
Lexical and grammatical structures include :
Semester 1
- Active/passive voice
- Reported speech
- Time clauses
Semester 2
- Language of negotiations: making proposals, counter-proposals and conditional offers
- Grammar revision
Language functions/effective communication include :
- carrying out negotiations related to their field of study
- giving feedback to peers
- expressing opinions and presenting arguments
- reacting properly in social situations
- analysing business-related texts and recordings
- analysing and selecting information
- drafting effective business documents and
- correspondence
- using professional language connected with students’
- field of studies
- giving advice and solving problems
- describing numerical information
- analysing, synthesizing and comparing information
- participating actively in typical academic settings: discussions, negotiations, etc.
- reading for understanding and synthesis of information from a variety of texts
- writing letters and external & internal emails
- finding, selecting, and presenting information
- Nauczyciel: Bartosik Ewa
