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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

Zapisywanie samodzielne (Student)
Zapisywanie samodzielne (Student)