Introduction
Upper 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 Upper Intermediate CEFR B2 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
- differentiate between the present perfect and simple past
- talk about the future using a variety of verb forms
- report what people have said and questions they have asked
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: Business meetings 1
- Четене: When communication breaks down
- Граматика: Countable and uncountable nouns
- Речник: People in business
- Слушане: Brand loyalty
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Describing your business or job
- Речник: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 1
Module 2
- Граматика: Modal verbs – advice and obligation
- Речник: Dealing with staff
- Четене: A review of a car
- Граматика: Modal verbs – possibility and certainty
- Речник: Buying and selling
- Слушане: How luxury brands are surviving the recession
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Being polite in English
- Речник: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 2
Module 3
- Граматика: Present perfect and simple past
- Речник: People in business
- Четене: Great inventions – the Sony Walkman
- Граматика: Talking about the future
- Речник: Corporate structure
- Слушане: Innovative advertising techniques
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Presentations
- Речник: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 3
Module 4
- Граматика: Second conditional
- Речник: Telephoning
- Четене: La Jolie Fleur hotel
- Граматика: Third conditional
- Речник: Hiring and firing staff
- Слушане: Business trip travel arrangements
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Agreeing and disagreeing
- Речник: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 4
Module 5
- Граматика: Reported statements
- Речник: Business meetings 2
- Четене: A job vacancy
- Граматика: Reported questions
- Речник: Money and finance
- Слушане: A job interview
- Речник: Wordbuilding
- Речник: Phrasal verbs
- Functions: Talking about statistics
- Речник: Business idioms
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 5
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 Upper Intermediate Business Power course should feel confident in tackling any advanced level course including our Advanced Power course.