English for Professional Purposes
Slides
- Course introduction / Globalization of the economy
- Types of business entities
- Types of business entities
- The grammar of cause and effect in business communication
- Culture and ethics
- Management and leadership styles
- Finance of organisations
- Active vs. passive voice in people management
- Speaking skills 1: presentations
- Speaking skills 2: introduction and presentation of the company profile; calls; negotiations
- Writing skills
Exercises
- Reading: global economic shifts
- Grammar: perfect tenses
- Vocabulary: trade and globalisation
- Comprehension, grammar and vocabulary: small businesses
- Reading: are small businesses in big trouble?
- Reading: business strategies for a coffee startup
- Sentence adverbials and business vocabulary · answers
- Comprehension, grammar and vocabulary tasks
- Listening questions: the fall of Innovatek
- Listening script: the fall of Innovatek
- Recommending an organisational structure · answers
- Ethics vocabulary and modal verbs · answers
- Group work: profit-focused shareholders (group 1)
- Group work: balanced approach shareholders (group 2)
- Group work: values-driven shareholders (group 3)
- Reading: from idealism to honest coffee
- Choosing a management style · answers
- Word forms in leadership vocabulary · answers
- Finance vocabulary and reported speech
- Grammar: active and passive voice
- Evaluating employee misconduct · answers
- Company profile presentation (group 1): CloudTech Solutions
- Company profile presentation (group 2): GreenField Manufacturing
- Company profile presentation (group 3): Heritage Financial Services
- Company profile presentation (group 4): MediTech Innovations
- Business proposal 1: cloud migration
- Business proposal 2: sustainable office transformation
- Business proposal 3: customer data analytics
- Six phases of negotiation (group 1)
- Six phases of negotiation (group 2)
- Six phases of negotiation (group 3)
- Six phases of negotiation (group 4)
- Memo 1: new expense claim procedures
- Memo 2: company rebrand
- Memo 3: hot-desking policy
- Market research analysis: Meridian Consulting report (Group 1)
- Market research analysis: Thornfield Advisory report (Group 2)
- Market research analysis: Strategic Insights Partnership report (Group 3)