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General news and announcements
Welcome to your course in Legal English.
Moodle will be our communications platform throughout the course.
Once you have signed up, you will be able to access course lexis, view your homework and additional activities.
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Attached is an excerpt from a book titled Commercial Transactions & Business Associations by Bower, Malloor Barnes, Philips, Langvardt which is your assignment, as indicated.
On 18 November, you will take a test in which, you will
1. answer 2 questions using 1 or 2 sentences
2. translate sentences from the text into Polish
3. Provide Polish equivalents for English words from the text
4. retranslate Polish words retrieved from the text into English .
The test can bring you 15 points.
NOTE: I appreciate the fact that the time left for you to prepare is short and am open to suggestions regarding a postponment of the test. We can discuss that on 3 Nov.
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Enclosed is a file with expressions useful in making discussions.
Print it out and always carry it with you when you are coming to class.
Make the best effort to apply them when discussing issues in teams.
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This file can also prove valuabe as a resource during you activities
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Like with the language of discussions, this file with the language of meetings should also be printed out and carried to our classes.
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All of the subsequent pdf files are from Pratten J. (2012). Absolute Financial English, Peaslake, Delta Publishing
These files are up for discusssion in the classroom subject to your prior preparation.
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Enclosed is a file with auxiliary verbs and rejoinders - so, but, etc.
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Enclosed is a file with an exercise on participles - an issue of grammar which causes students problems.
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This module covers meetings - language and a case study.
The case study involves analysis of the case of a company in trouble, followed by a realistic scenario in which each of you will be involved.
This part of the module requires active preparation and engagement in a meeting.
For your role in the meeting, you can score up to 15 points.
Another 5 points can be scored for an drafting an agenda.
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Study the brief contained in the file carefully. As a group, decide which of the 11 issues you want to investigate and present, and then do as instructed. This task is to be attempted in pairs and can bring you 10 points.
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Read the article from UK's newspaper The Independent and answer the following questions in writing:
1. What caused Carillion's collapse?
2. Why did banks refuse to restructure Carillion's debt?
3. What is the difference between administration and straight liquidation?
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These resources come from Absolute Finanacial English by Julie Pratten, Delta Publishing
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In the ensloced file, you will find information needed to prepare and participate in a meeting aimed at rescuing Carillion.
The outcome of the meeting is unpredictable, but each participant must take up a role and prepare to make a strong case around his/her role.
The language of meetings must be used.
The activity can bring you 15 points.
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Write a letter along the brief.
An editable version ONLY
Submit for grading by 19 May
Grade; 10 pts
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Letter
Your company specializes in floor coverings and have received a letter from Brown Flooring Ltd of 5 Portobello Street, London CE 5 in which they inform you that they themselves have received a number of enquiries from customers for floor coverings suitable for new buildings in the region. Brown Flooring Ltd request samples of your range and designs and enquire about your delivery and payment terms.
Write a reply to their letter.
Use block format, open punctuation and assume that company-headed paper is used, so that you can omit the letterhead.
Make sure that you use formal language of correspondence and provide the necessary information. Do not forget about enclosures.
Submit an editable file, preferably MS Word and name the file using your name.
Grade: 6 points
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LETTER CHASING PAYMENT
Write a letter in which you will address the issues below.
On several occasions recently, one of your main customers has been late settling their account. This has caused your company cashflow and other problems. Write a letter to the customer in which you will:
1. complain about the latest late payment
2. give details of the delay
3. explain the consequences for your business
4. say what will happen if payment is not made
5. express condition for disregarding the email.
This letter must be comprehensive – it must have the proper layout and address all of the issues above. Follow open punctuation an block format.
Additionally, you must write well-rounded sentences, containing specific information – dates, amounts, names etc.
It is essential that your letter shows cohesion – one idea flows from another, there is a logical connection between sentences.
You MUST use the linking words, of which you have many examples in this correspondence module.
The letter must be submitted in an editable format, named using your surname. I will mark it, but if it is below an acceptable standard, you will have to rewrite it until the quality is there. So it is better to do it first time right.
The assignment can bring bring my original students 5 points, and a total of 8 points to my new arrivals.
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Enter the correct words belonging to marketing jargon.
Enter the entire term, in most cases 2 words, sometimes one word or otherwise.
In all quizes ONLY ONE attempt is allowed.
Grade:6 pts
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Read the text below about hiring good salespeople. For each question or incomplete statement choose either A, B, C or D.
One attempt is allowed.
Grade: 10 pts
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Read the text on the Marketing Mix. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D below. (9 pts)
Grade: 9 pts
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Write in the missing Question Tags, e.g. is he, doesn't she, could you etc.
Grade: 5 pts
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Complete the text using the words in the drop-down menu.
One attempt allowed
Grade: 6 pts
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Complete the following definitions with one of these words provided.
One attempt is allowed.
Grade: 8
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What is the appropriate negative prefix?
One attempt is allowed
Grade: 6 pts
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In this quiz you will find the body of a product recall letter and 10 jumbled items. Rearrange the items and place them in the correct place i.e. box.
Each of the boxes has a drop-down menu and you can choose your answers from there.
One of these items is redundant - enter it in the last box.
Use block format and open punctuation.
Grade: 10 pts
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