Advanced Business English 40 h

1. Business Language

Job responsibilities/ office routine

Education
Business sectors
Verb tenses
Business vocabulary: collocations, prepositions, verbs
Describing people/ objects

2. Business communication

Socializing/ small talk

Emails
Telephoning
Presentations
Negotiating
Linking devices
Word order

3. Corporate culture

Business environment
Case studies: 1. The Euro Disney theme park ; 2. Tesco
Basic elements of corporate culture
Conditional clauses
Describing events
Word families

4. Areas of business

Production
Marketing
Human resources
Trade
Finance
Facilities
 Customer service
Business expressions : verb and noun collocations
The Passive Voice
Describing and comparing

5. Business management

Principles
Current problems case study
Business ratios
Strategies
Project management
Conferencing
Language of meetings: formality vs informality
Argumentative discourse

6. The world of business

Business challenges
The internet
Business related social issues
The economy
Time management- case study
Phrasal verbs
Opposites