Course BR_2025_2

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