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