Intensive English (Business)(1)

Aims

This course responding to acquire the basic knowledge of business and understand professional communication which include: understanding and presenting complex business communication messages; being able to work in a group and prepare for presentations; Skills applying to listening, speaking and business writing. Students in this course will also be aware of the barriers to communication and helps them to cope with such barriers in real life.

Learning Outcomes

1.Understanding Communication

a)Basic of business communication and it’s importance

b)Communication strategies design and application

2.Working in groups

a)Communicating in a team

b)Effective meeting skills

3.Preparing presentations

a)Understand different types of presentations and their purpose.

b)Organizing your ideas into a presentation

c)Developing the presentation and present it to the audience

4.Skills acquired

a)Listening

b)Reading

c)Translation

d)Negotiations

e)Writing

Teaching and Learning

Lecture and presentations by the lecturer will be integrated with students centered in-class activities including tasks and exercises, independent, group and pair work. New Words and key sentences are presented to students.

Assessment

Basic Reading List

Fang Lianyin& Wang Yan, 2012,Moder BusinessEnglish Integrated Course (1):China Renmin University Press