A:BEB.1R Business English Blocks

Supervisor

Alžběta Prokešová ✉︎

Extent and intensity

16 weeks
Date: Not specified yet
1 lesson (90 minutes) per week

Registration status: Open for registration

Available in (season - start):

• Autumn 2019 - CW 44
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Venue

Course objectives

The course is aimed for those who want to improve communication skills and competence in business English

▽ Details

1 block scheme:

90  minutes

Break

45 minutes

 

Content:

 

01 First impressions 02 Motivation 03 On schedule 04 New ideas 05 Ethical business 06 Making decisions 07 Outsourcing 08 Facilities 09 Employees 10 New business 11 Communications 12 Change 13 Data 14 Culture 15 Performance 16 Career breaks

 

Pictograms used:

Ⓥ Vocabulary Ⓢ Speaking Ⓛ Listening Ⓖ Grammar Ⓦ Writing

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Block 1 - First impressions

Outcome:

• You can arrange a meeting via phone, e-mail or personally
• You can exchange contact detail
• You can talk about work routines, projects, and plans

Programme:

Ⓥ Talking about first impressions, phrases, adjectives

Ⓛ Arranging a meeting and exchanging contact details

Ⓦ Writing an e-mail to arrange a meeting

Ⓖ Present simple and continous

Ⓢ Work and personal life overlap

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Block 2 - Motivation

Outcome:

• You can encourage and end conversation politely
• You can use different questions to check information or start conversations

Programme:

Ⓥ Motivation at work, incentives, benefits

Ⓛ Encouraging conversation, small talk

Ⓖ Question forms

Ⓢ Ending and leaving a conversation

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Block 3 - On schedule

Outcome:

• You can talk about projects
• You can run meetings and question decisions
• You can talk about past or recent actions and achievements

Programme:

Ⓥ Managing projects, phrasal verbs

Ⓛ Running an update meeting

Ⓢ Questioning a decision

Ⓖ Present perfect and past simple

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Block 4 - New ideas

Outcome:

• You can talk about innovation
• You can present ideas and refer to evidence
• You can talk about ability in the past, present and future

Programme:

Ⓥ Ideas and innovations, adjective-noun phrases, phrasal verbs

Ⓛ Presenting a product or service

Ⓢ Referring to evidence

Ⓖ Present, past, and future ability

 

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Block 5 - Ethical business

Outcome:

• You can plan arrangements and respond to invitations
• You can talk about decisions, plans and predictions

Programme:

Ⓥ Ethical business, word formation, personal standards

Ⓛ Planning arrangements

Ⓢ Responding to invitations

Ⓖ Talking about the future

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Block 6 - Making decisions

Outcome:

• You can participate in decisions-making meetings
• You can talk about social plans
• You can talk about different quantities

Programme:

Ⓥ Personality adjectives

Ⓛ Decision-making

Ⓦ Preparing an agenda for a meeting

Ⓢ Talking about social plans

Ⓖ Countability, expressions of quantity

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Block 7 - Outsourcing

Outcome:

• You can present information and ask questions about presentations
• You can report information in an impersonal way

Programme:

Ⓥ Outscourcing

Ⓛ Presenting factual information

Ⓦ Preparing a presentation

Ⓢ Asking questions after a presentation

Ⓖ The passive

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Block 8 - Facilites

Outcome:

• You can describe your place of work
• You can make suggestions and recommendations
• You can link ideas

Programme:

Ⓥ Describing a places of work, intensifying adjectives

Ⓛ Making suggestions and recommendations

Ⓢ How to link ideas

Ⓖ Nouns and quantifiers

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Block 9 - Employees

Outcome:

• You can negotiate with colleagues and make requests
• You can negotiate certain conditions

Programme:

Ⓥ Employers and employees, word formation

Ⓛ Negotiating with colleagues

Ⓢ Making quick requests

Ⓖ if clauses

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Block 10 - New business

Outcome:

• You can talk about start-ups
• You can ask contacts for help and avoid saying “no”
• You can talk about past or recent activities and results

Programme:

Ⓥ Starting up a new business

Ⓛ Maintaining contacts

Ⓢ Avoid saying “no”

Ⓖ Present perfect simple and continuous

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Block 11 - Communications

Outcome:

• You can talk about technology
• You can deal with information and problems on the phone
• You can use phrasal verbs in different contexts

Programme:

Ⓥ Communications technology, working with a text

Ⓛ Dealing with information on the phone

Ⓢ Resolving problems on the phone

Ⓖ Phrasal verb word order

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Block 12 - Change

Outcome:

• You can present plans and give balanced arguments
• You can talk about the probability of future activities and developments

Programme:

Ⓥ Talking about change, verbs

Ⓛ Presenting future plans

Ⓢ Giving both sides of the arguments

Ⓖ Future tenses and probability

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Block 13 - Data

Outcome:

• You can describe trends
• You can report what someone has said

Programme:

Ⓥ Dealing in data, one/two-word nouns

Ⓛ Discussing data

Ⓢ Describing trends

Ⓖ Reporting

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Block 14 - Culture

Outcome:

• You can talk about cultural differences
• You can describe past events and news
• You can describe the sequence of past events

Programme:

Ⓥ Cultural differences

Ⓛ Narrating past events

Ⓢ Talking about news and gossip

Ⓖ Narrative tenses

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Block 15 - Performance

Outcome:

• You can talk about appraisals
• You can evaluate performance and raise issues
• You can talk about imagined past actions and results

Programme:

Ⓥ Staff appraisals, noun phrases

Ⓛ Evaluating performance

Ⓢ Raising difficult issues

Ⓖ Third and mixed conditionals, perfect modals

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Block 16 - Career breaks

Outcome:

• You can present a case
• You can talk about time off
• You can discuss interview questions

Programme:

Ⓥ Taking a career break

Ⓛ Putting forward a case

Ⓢ Taking time off

Ⓖ -ing form or infinitive?

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Course capacity (min-max)

3-5

Literature

Business Result Upper-intermediate

Outcomes

Certificate of achievement