Introduction
Intermediate 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 Intermediate CEFR B1 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:
- use articles correctly and accurately
- use adverbs to give information about time and duration
- use conditional sentences to talk about possible actions in the future
- ask questions indirectly
- compare things using a variety of comparative and superlative forms
- identify transitive and intransitive verb forms and be accurate when following one verb form with another which will be in the gerund or infinitive form
- use prepositions of place and movement correctly
- join words, clauses, and sentences correctly using a variety of linking devices
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, statistics, and making small talk.
Unit summary
Entry test
- A 40-question test: which will be used for comparative purposes with the end of course exit test.
Module 1
- Граматика: Articles
- Речник: Computer vocabulary
- Четене: An interview with a government minister
- Граматика: Adverbs connected with time
- Речник: Confusing words
- Слушане: Directions
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Business collocations
- Functions: Chairing a meeting
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 1
Module 2
- Граматика: Comparatives and superlatives
- Речник: Electronic items
- Четене: The European Commission audit
- Граматика: First conditional
- Речник: Formal and Informal English
- Слушане: The internet
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Business collocations
- Functions: Meetings: accepting and rejecting suggestions
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 2
Module 3
- Граматика: Gerunds and infinitives
- Речник: Jobs and professions
- Четене: The Regent hotel
- Граматика: Indirect questions
- Речник: Confusing words
- Слушане: University in Britain
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Business collocations
- Functions: Meetings: interrupting
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 3
Module 4
- Граматика: Linking words and phrases
- Речник: Hiring and firing staff
- Четене: Who invented the Internet
- Граматика: Prepositions of place and movement
- Речник: Confusing words
- Слушане: Waiting at the airport
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Business collocations
- Functions: Small talk
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 4
Module 5
- Граматика: Word order
- Речник: In the office
- Четене: Oxford
- Граматика: Comparatives and superlatives
- Речник: People in business
- Слушане: Working in London
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Business collocations
- Functions: Talking about statistics
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 5
Exit test
- A 40-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 Intermediate Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any intermediate course including our Upper Intermediate Business Power course.