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.
Γραμματική
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
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, 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
- Γραμματική: Articles
- Λεξιλόγιο: Computer vocabulary
- Ανάγνωση: An interview with a government minister
- Γραμματική: Adverbs connected with time
- Λεξιλόγιο: Confusing words
- Ακρόαση: Directions
- Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding
- Λεξιλόγιο: Business collocations
- Functions: Chairing a meeting
- Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 1
Module 2
- Γραμματική: Comparatives and superlatives
- Λεξιλόγιο: Electronic items
- Ανάγνωση: The European Commission audit
- Γραμματική: First conditional
- Λεξιλόγιο: Formal and Informal English
- Ακρόαση: The internet
- Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding
- Λεξιλόγιο: Business collocations
- Functions: Meetings: accepting and rejecting suggestions
- Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 2
Module 3
- Γραμματική: Gerunds and infinitives
- Λεξιλόγιο: Jobs and professions
- Ανάγνωση: The Regent hotel
- Γραμματική: Indirect questions
- Λεξιλόγιο: Confusing words
- Ακρόαση: University in Britain
- Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding
- Λεξιλόγιο: Business collocations
- Functions: Meetings: interrupting
- Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 3
Module 4
- Γραμματική: Linking words and phrases
- Λεξιλόγιο: Hiring and firing staff
- Ανάγνωση: Who invented the Internet
- Γραμματική: Prepositions of place and movement
- Λεξιλόγιο: Confusing words
- Ακρόαση: Waiting at the airport
- Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding
- Λεξιλόγιο: Business collocations
- Functions: Small talk
- Λεξιλόγιο: Phrasal verbs
- Spelling: Spelling
- Revision: Material from module 4
Module 5
- Γραμματική: Word order
- Λεξιλόγιο: In the office
- Ανάγνωση: Oxford
- Γραμματική: Comparatives and superlatives
- Λεξιλόγιο: People in business
- Ακρόαση: Working in London
- Λεξιλόγιο: Wordbuilding
- Λεξιλόγιο: Business collocations
- Functions: Talking about statistics
- Λεξιλόγιο: 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.