Business English I
Brief description
Topics:
- market research and international marketing, brands, management and mentoring, mobile banking, managing money, environmental and cyber challenges, challenges at the workplace, intercultural management, secondments abroad, relocation and retention
- Business Correspondence: e-mails, letters, graphs, social media, summarising findings
- Skills: dealing with questions, collaborating, defending your ideas, managing challenging conversations, giving feedback on performance, appraisals
- Grammar: verb tenses (active and passive), noun compounds/ phrases/ combinations, describing trends, multiword verbs, reported speech, adverbs and adjectives, defining and non-defining relative clauses, question tags, cleft sentences, linking phrases and words, inversion
Mode of delivery
Präsenzveranstaltung
Type
Pflichtfach
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Dubicka, Iwonna et al. Business Partner B2+. Coursebook. DACH Edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. 2019 Barral, Irene. Lizzie Wright. Business Partner B2+. Workbook. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. 2020
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Face-to-face learning (input, discussions, role plays, presentations, written activities), case-studies, distance learning, blended learning, support through various media
Assessment methods and criteria
Continuous assessment (=participation & performance, assignments 32.5%, presentation 9%, quizzes 48%, e-learning 10.5%)
Prerequisites and co-requisites
English CEFR Level B2
Infos
Degree programme
European Economy and Business Management (English)
Cycle
Bachelor
ECTS Credits
3.00
Language of instruction
English
Curriculum
Full-Time
Academic year
2024
Semester
1 WS
Incoming
No
Learning outcome
After successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Apply situation- and topic-appropriate vocabulary orally and in writing, also in regards to topical international and sustainable developments
- Correctly use basic and advanced English grammar
- Read and debate about current topics
- Communicate successfully in a variety of business-related situations
- Carry out a needs analysis using leading and opening questions
- Deal with questions (respond to questions, propose a change)
- Brainstorm and promote collaboration in a meeting
- Present and defend ideas
- Describe consequences
- Manage challenging conversations
- Write different types of e-mails, and graph descriptions
Course code
1389-20-01-VZ-DE-06