Introduction
Advanced Business Power is an online course consisting of 50 units of English and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.
Course aims
To give students at Upper Intermediate CEFR C1 level practice in general and business-oriented language required for general business contexts at this level. The course blends grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.
Граматика
By the end of the course students will be able to:
- talk about quantity
- accurately use countable and uncountable nouns
- use conditional sentences to talk about unlikely actions in the future and impossible alternative present and past situations and regrets
- use modal verbs to talk about possibility, certainty, advice, and obligation
- use gerund and infinitive forms of verbs
- use appropriate conjunctions and linking words to connect clauses and sentences
- use definite, indefinite, and zero articles
- use appropriate forms to express a variety of future situations
Речник
By the end of the course students will have learnt approximately 400 lexical items including nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrasal verbs, idiomatic language, and lexical sets.
Skills
By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing formal and informal English from a variety of business contexts, including meetings, presentations, travel arrangements, and dealing with staff.
Unit summary
Entry test
- A 50-question test: which will be used for comparative purposes with the end of course exit test.
Module 1
- Граматика: Talking about quantity
- Речник: Formal and informal equivalents 1
- Четене: 7 steps to a successful marketing campaign
- Слушане: A company with no boss
- Речник: Phrasal verbs 01
- Граматика: Modal Verbs
- Речник: People in business
- Четене: Cost of living crisis
- Слушане: Women say no to non-promotable tasks
- Речник: Wordbuilding 01
Module 2
- Граматика: Mixed Conditionals
- Речник: Business idioms 1
- Четене: How I made my millions
- Слушане: Airline Strikes
- Речник: Phrasal verbs 02
- Граматика: Relative Clauses
- Речник: Confusing words
- Четене: Office housework: Not a woman’s job!
- Слушане: The Harry Potter business
- Речник: Wordbuilding 02
Module 3
- Граматика: Conjunctions and Connectors
- Речник: Collocations: Adjective + Noun 1
- Четене: The story of Marmite
- Слушане: Flying technology
- Речник: Phrasal verbs 03
- Граматика: Gerunds and Infinitives
- Речник: Business meetings
- Четене: When communication breaks down
- Слушане: The digital world: are the elderly being left behind?
- Речник: Wordbuilding 03
Module 4
- Граматика: Wishes
- Речник: Prepositional collocations 1
- Четене: A job vacancy
- Слушане: Kidfluencers
- Речник: Phrasal verbs 04
- Граматика: Talking about the future
- Речник: Pay
- Четене: Downshifting
- Слушане: The appeal of streaming games
- Речник: Wordbuilding 04
Module 5
- Граматика: Articles
- Речник: Formal and informal equivalents 2
- Четене: Fair trade
- Слушане: Meetings: love them or hate them
- Речник: Phrasal verbs 05
- Граматика: Verb Patterns
- Речник: Abbreviations
- Четене: Online retailer hits the buffers
- Слушане: Robots in the workplace
- Речник: Wordbuilding 05
Exit test
- A 50-question test: which covers the same areas as the entry test thereby giving students an accurate measure of their progress through the course.
Follow-up
Students completing the Advanced Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any advanced level course including our Advanced Plus Power course.