COURSE OUTLINE

Subject: English for Management

Instructor: Vo Doan Tho
Contact: doantho@ueh.edu.vn
Duration: 45 periods (3 credits)
Course objectives: English for Business Studies is designed for Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
Levels of English Learners (B2-C2 CEFR), who need to understand and express the key concepts
of business and economics in English. It covers the most important areas of management,
production, marketing, finance and macroeconomics.
Course aims: This course is to help learners
+ Understand the language and concepts of business and economics
+ Develop their four language skills and give practice in the comprehension of business and
economics texts.
+ Improve their confidence, language fluency, and take various opportunities to express
business concepts themselves while synthesizing and summarizing, analyzing, criticizing and
discussing their ideas.
Date Unit Content Assignments
- Making
- Qualities of leader
13/04/22 1. What is leadership? individual small
- Entrepreneurship
talks
- Organizational culture - Summarizing a
20/04/22 2. Culture and Change
- Change management text
- Organizational structure
3. Organizations and - Reporting
27/04/22 and analysis
Operations research findings
- Production methods
- Process engineering
4. Production - MBO - Reporting
04/05/22
management - Project management research findings
- Quality management
11/05/22 5. Strategy and - Crisis and contingency - Making group

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 planning
- International markets and
business management presentations
situation analysis
- Competition
- The time value of money
- Asset, bond and share - Making group
13/05/22 6. Finance for strategy
valuation presentations
- Project appraisal
- Groups and teams
- Planning an
18/05/22 7. People as a resource - Diversity
essay
- recruitment
- Motivation and rewards
- Attending a
20/05/22 8. Developing people - Learning and development
seminar
- Hard and soft HRM
- Marketing orientation and
market share
9. Marketing
25/05/22 - Marketing and brand - Writing an essay
management
strategy
- The marketing process
- Vocabulary focus
27/05/22 10. Revision - Listening LMS
- Speaking
- Vocabulary focus
01/06/22 11. Revision - Reading LMS
- Writing
03/06/22 12. Mid-term test LMS

CLASS REGULATIONS

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1. Student workload:
Students are required to attend classes, participate in discussions, take tests, etc. as
regulated in the academic regulations of the university.
- Assignment: complete homework and in-class assignment
- Learning tools and materials: projector, computer, whiteboard, textbooks “English for
Management Studies” by Tony Corballis and Wayne Jennings and “English for Business
Studies” by Ian Mackenzie
- Others: students are expected to work in groups of 3-5 people, prepare lessons, give
presentations, and answer questions from teachers as well as other students.
2. Student assessment system:
- Weekly assignments: 10%
- Group presentation: 10%
- LMS: 20%
- Mid-term Test: 10%
- Final Exam: 50%
3. Class information
Room: B1 – 708
Zoom meetings: https://vuw.zoom.us/j/94786122983

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