BA_BENG_1 Business English 1

University of Finance and Administration
Winter 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Klára Humhalová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ivona Kuželíková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ivona Kuželíková
Subdepartment of Languages – Department of Social Sciences – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Ivana Plačková
Timetable of Seminar Groups
BA_BENG_1/cBMC1PH: Wed 8:45–9:29 E125, Wed 9:30–10:15 E125, except Wed 21. 11. ; and Wed 21. 11. 8:45–10:15 E000MM, I. Kuželíková
BA_BENG_1/cBMC2PH: Wed 8:45–9:29 E126, Wed 9:30–10:15 E126, K. Humhalová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Mastering professional language and its practical use is the main objective of the course with a special focus on lexical and fraseological units in professional English, deeper fixing of grammar structures, comprehension of spoken language, both direct and recorded, communication in business environment and improvement in written English.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course successfully, students will be able:
- to use terminology concerning sales and costs, profitability and unprofitability, getting paid, assets, liabilities and the balance sheet, the bottom line, share capital and debt
- to form and use present simple and continuous tense
- to use action and non-action verbs
- to form and use past tenses: simple, continuous, perfect
- to form and use future tenses: going to, present continuous, will
- to form and use comparatives and superlatives
- to form and use modal verbs (obligation, deduction, ability and possibility)
Syllabus
Course content:
Business Vocabulary in Use - Intermediate, Units - 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
New English File - Intermediate

1-2 NEF-I Unit 1A: Food: fuel or pleasure?, Grammar: present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs
3-4 BViU Unit 27 - Sales and costs
5-6 NEF-I Unit 1B: If you really want to win, cheat, Grammar: past tenses
7-8 BViU Unit 28 - Profitability and unprofitability
9-10 NEF-I Unit 1C: We are family, Grammar: future forms
11-12 BViU Unit 29 - Getting paid
13-14 NEF-I Unit 2A: Ka-ching!, Grammar: present perfect and past simple; Unit 2B: Changing your life, Grammar: present perfect continuous;
15-16 BViU Unit 30 - Assets, liabilities and the balance sheet
17-18 Unit 2C Race to the sun, Grammar: comparatives and superlatives
19-20 BViU Unit 31 - The bottom line
21-22 NEF-I Unit 3A Modern Manners, Grammar: must, have to, should (obligation); Unit 3B Judging by appearance, Grammar: must, may, might, can´t (deduction); Unit 3C If at first you don´t succeed, Grammar: can, could, beable to (ability and possibility)
23-24 BViU Unit 32 - Share capital and debt
Literature
    required literature
  • OXENDEN, C., LAPHAM, P., SELIGSON, P.,KOENIG, S..New English File - Intermediate, Student´s Book, OUP, 2006, ISBN: 0194518000.
  • MASCULL, Bill. Business Vocabulary in Use – Intermediate SECOND EDITION, CUP, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-74862-9
Teaching methods
Seminars in full-time study; compulsory seminar participation is 75%.
Assessment methods
The extent of obligatory participation in lessons has been stipulated as follows: 75% applies to full-time students. The subject is assessed based on the student's results in the Credit Test. It testifies to the fulfilment of study obligations.
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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