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1. OBJECTIVE
English For Business Studies I is a course designed to develop the students’ Business English language skills and
work on reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also contains work on business vocabulary, content and
linguistic structures on socializing, business presentations, commercial correspondence and telephoning.
2. REQUIREMENTS:
3. COMPETENCES
Specific competences
Socialize formally and informally with people from different cultures in a business environment.
Make effective oral presentations in a business context.
Write formal and informal commercial correspondence.
Communicate effectively on the telephone
Transversal competences
4. METHODOLOGY
The methodology approach focuses on speaking and listening, so that students can quickly improve conversational
skills. Reading and writing are also important, and these skills are taught through a practical and communicative
approach. Classes feature dynamic classroom teaching, personal interaction, and a communicative approach to
language learning. Such students oriented methodology is based on cooperative work, where the students are
active agents of their own learning process.
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Workshops Expert talks Web 2.0 (Wikis, blogs, social networks,.....)
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5. PROGRAMME
Cross-cultural understanding
Welcoming visitors
Small talk: keeping the conversation going
Culture and entertainment
Eating out
The introduction
Structure
Body
Conclusion
Linking
Conjunctions
Sequencing
Effective Pronunciation for presentations (phonetics)
MODULE 4: Telephoning:
6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baber, E.Fifty Ways to Improve Your Business English Using the Internet,2007
Summertown Publishing
López, Sinda y Watt, Donald:; Diccionario Oxford Business, Español-Inglés; Inglés- Español. Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2006.
Sweenwy, Simon: English for Business Communication. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
MacKenzie, Ian: English for Business Studies. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Tullis, Graham and Trappe, Tonya: New Insights into Business. London, Longman, 2000
Cook Rolf and Pedretti Mara: Success with BEC (Preliminary). Oxford, Summertown publishing, 2008.
GRADO EN ADMINISTRACIÓN Y DIRECCIÓN DE EMPRESAS
7. ASSESSMENT
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TOT
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Team Work
presentation 30
(Content & 10 -Content 30
Technique) 10 Technique
30
Company Tour 30
Commercial
correspondence
research 5 5
Email Writing
exam 5 5
Telephoning
oral test 30 30
TOTAL 30 30 10 30 100