Advanced Business Power

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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.

Gramatika

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

Slovní zásoba

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

  • Gramatika: Talking about quantity
  • Slovní zásoba: Formal and informal equivalents 1
  • Čtení: 7 steps to a successful marketing campaign
  • Poslech: A company with no boss
  • Slovní zásoba: Phrasal verbs 01
  • Gramatika: Modal Verbs
  • Slovní zásoba: People in business
  • Čtení: Cost of living crisis
  • Poslech: Women say no to non-promotable tasks
  • Slovní zásoba: Wordbuilding 01

Module 2

  • Gramatika: Mixed Conditionals
  • Slovní zásoba: Business idioms 1
  • Čtení: How I made my millions
  • Poslech: Airline Strikes
  • Slovní zásoba: Phrasal verbs 02
  • Gramatika: Relative Clauses
  • Slovní zásoba: Confusing words
  • Čtení: Office housework: Not a woman’s job!
  • Poslech: The Harry Potter business
  • Slovní zásoba: Wordbuilding 02

Module 3

  • Gramatika: Conjunctions and Connectors
  • Slovní zásoba: Collocations: Adjective + Noun 1
  • Čtení: The story of Marmite
  • Poslech: Flying technology
  • Slovní zásoba: Phrasal verbs 03
  • Gramatika: Gerunds and Infinitives
  • Slovní zásoba: Business meetings
  • Čtení: When communication breaks down
  • Poslech: The digital world: are the elderly being left behind?
  • Slovní zásoba: Wordbuilding 03

Module 4

  • Gramatika: Wishes
  • Slovní zásoba: Prepositional collocations 1
  • Čtení: A job vacancy
  • Poslech: Kidfluencers
  • Slovní zásoba: Phrasal verbs 04
  • Gramatika: Talking about the future
  • Slovní zásoba: Pay
  • Čtení: Downshifting
  • Poslech: The appeal of streaming games
  • Slovní zásoba: Wordbuilding 04

Module 5

  • Gramatika: Articles
  • Slovní zásoba: Formal and informal equivalents 2
  • Čtení: Fair trade
  • Poslech: Meetings: love them or hate them
  • Slovní zásoba: Phrasal verbs 05
  • Gramatika: Verb Patterns
  • Slovní zásoba: Abbreviations
  • Čtení: Online retailer hits the buffers
  • Poslech: Robots in the workplace
  • Slovní zásoba: 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.