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.

Γραμματική

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

Λεξιλόγιο

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

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

Module 2

  • Γραμματική: Mixed Conditionals
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Business idioms 1
  • Ανάγνωση: How I made my millions
  • Ακρόαση: Airline Strikes
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 02
  • Γραμματική: Relative Clauses
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Confusing words
  • Ανάγνωση: Office housework: Not a woman’s job!
  • Ακρόαση: The Harry Potter business
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 02

Module 3

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

Module 4

  • Γραμματική: Wishes
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Prepositional collocations 1
  • Ανάγνωση: A job vacancy
  • Ακρόαση: Kidfluencers
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 04
  • Γραμματική: Talking about the future
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Pay
  • Ανάγνωση: Downshifting
  • Ακρόαση: The appeal of streaming games
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding 04

Module 5

  • Γραμματική: Articles
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Formal and informal equivalents 2
  • Ανάγνωση: Fair trade
  • Ακρόαση: Meetings: love them or hate them
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs 05
  • Γραμματική: Verb Patterns
  • Λεξιλόγιο: Abbreviations
  • Ανάγνωση: Online retailer hits the buffers
  • Ακρόαση: Robots in the workplace
  • Λεξιλόγιο: 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.