IYa 2303 p - Business English Pre-Intermediate
Syllabus
Academic Year 2016-2017
Autumn Semester
1. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE | |
Course Code |
IYa 2303 p |
Major |
Jour 5В050400, CSSE 5B070400, ISS 5B0100200 |
Credit Hours |
2 |
Year, semester |
2 year,autumn semester |
Subject category |
Basic |
Language of Delivery: |
English |
Prerequisites: |
English for Professional Purposes Pre-Intermediate |
Postrequisites: |
Introduction into IELTS |
Instructor |
Sholakhova A.A., assistant-professor E-mail: a.sholakhova@iitu.kz |
2. GOAL AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE | |
Course goal: to tailor the English Language program to the students’ future careers and help students communicate successfully in English in a business environment. Course objectives:
- life-long learning, leadership, critical thinking, decision-making, problem solving and team work. | |
3. COURSE DESCRIPTION | |
IYA 2303i Business English is aimed at the formation and development their skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in English on business-related topics, and developing such social skill as making presentations. The language training is communicative, interactive, student-centered, outcome-oriented and heavily reliant on students' self-study work. The latter is organized as TSIS (business correspondence) and SIS (Practice File self-check exercises and business project). | |
4. LEARNING OUTCOMES | |
By the end of the course the students will be able to: - show proficiency in recognizing familiar words, interpreting and summarising authentic oral speech on such business topics as Career, Companies, Products, Marketing - express opinion, propose solutions, present ideas on the above topics; - skim, scan, discuss and analyze texts on the topics under study; - build up business vocabulary on the topics studied; - write a CV/formal letter; - differentiate and use such grammar structures as modal verbs, passive voice, reported speech, conditionals. | |
5. ACADEMIC POLICY | |
Students are forbidden to:
Students should always
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6. LITERATURE | |
Required: 1. David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. Market Leader Pre-Intermediate, New edition, Course Book. Pearson Education Ltd, 2008 2. David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent. Market Leader Pre-Intermediate, New edition, Practice File. Pearson Education Ltd, 2008 Supplementary: 1. Michael Vince, Macmillan English Grammar in Context (Intermediate), Macmillan, 2008 2. B.Jolamanova, A.Sholakhova. Writing Paper in English. МУИТ, 2011 3. B.Jolamanova. Project Work Guidelines. E-version. Internet sources:
3. Learn Business English Vocabulary - Basic Legal Vocabulary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcTXidHhNU 4. Business English Vocabulary Lesson for ESL - Project Management http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMn1sY-3Fe4 |